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The Velveteen Ocelot

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4. If people drive you crazy and make you miserable, best to mostly avoid them

Reply to Rittermeister (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2013, 01:12 PM

Nov 2013

even if they are family. Send them Christmas cards, drop in for a short visit once in awhile, but keep your distance. Change the subject when they go off on politics; tell them you don't want to discuss those issues and if they keep it up you'll leave. Then do it.

Life is too short to knowingly subject yourself to stressful situations.

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Burned out [View all] Rittermeister Nov 2013 OP

I stopped talking to my family years ago. OffWithTheirHeads Nov 2013 #1

Leave - They Won't Change cantbeserious Nov 2013 #2

We have family members we "can't go there" with. But they are distant and see them rarely. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2013 #3

If people drive you crazy and make you miserable, best to mostly avoid them The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2013 #4

Don't let idiots control how you feel. MADem Nov 2013 #5

Put them at arm's length as others have suggested... Triana Nov 2013 #6

When behind enemy lines, you can either surrender........ rdharma Nov 2013 #7

I bet they watch Faux Nooz, too. Faux tells them exactly what they WANT to hear. You'll lose, every blkmusclmachine Nov 2013 #8

don't push the river. gklagan Nov 2013 #9

We're having a no political talk Thanksgiving at our house. mmonk Nov 2013 #10