Reply #92: if you had read the post

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you would have read that when the OP showed up for dinner with her children, her father had put a huge map of the middle east on the floor and proceeded to lecture her kids on his twisted idea of what goes on. that kind of baiting can only be avoided by avoiding contact entirely.

i didn't get the impression that the OP is eating herself up detesting her parents. on a couple of levels the title of the post might have been changed for the better, but the body of the post did not leave me feeling bitterness from the writer, much more the courage of her convictions.