Her son’s “no contact” order touched a LOT of individuals in our remark part who shared their very own comparable tales of breaking relationships with their MAGA dad and mom, siblings, mates, and family members.
Right here’s what they’re saying:
1. “While all three of my sisters and I are very disappointed in my mom for voting for Trump, one of them has cut her off.”
“My sister and all of her colleagues are losing their jobs, research funding, or are at risk of both. My mom shows no remorse for upending her daughter’s life. My mom says, ‘I would feel bad if all these other people didn’t vote for him too. It’s not like I did this to her.’ Such ignorance.”
—Jane M Lane
“I was waiting to flee, as were my other sisters, nephew, and his wife in LA. They were told to evacuate. But they could not flee to my house. Fire raged between LA and my city. And yet my eldest MAGA sister was shit texting how California doesn’t deserve any government assistance. In the middle of this crisis. How cruel and how MAGA is that? We haven’t spoken since. I refused to ever speak to her again. I did respond with a shitty text asking, ‘Should I take my wedding photos or dog food when I flee?!?!’ She told me to F off! So I did. I said, ‘Thank you. I will!’ And her poisoned MAGA mind meld with her cult is no longer ruining my inner peace.”
3. “I’m in my late 30s and part of the LGBTQ+ community. My stepmom and my mother’s boyfriend voted for Trump, and it sickens me to know that they voted for hate.”
“Unfortunately, I can never come out (my family thinks asexuality is a mental illness), so I just feel like I have to continue living a lie. I’ll continue to stand up for LGBTQIA + rights even if members of my family think my asexuality is something to be cured or eradicated or is ‘fake.’ I’ll also stand up for the rights of other minorities. It just sickens me that I have family who don’t give a shit about others if it doesn’t directly affect them.”
4. “I have a cousin who is gay. His Trumpster parents disowned him because of their bigotry.”
“Then they started talking to him again when they found out he had cancer. Sad that it takes cancer to make some people act human.”
—lea8948
5. “My husband and his older brother aren’t speaking to their parents (my in-laws) because of this exact same reason. And I couldn’t be more proud of their decision to cut them out.”
″(They have been egocentric, shitty dad and mom to start with!) There is no such thing as a ‘why can’t all of us simply get alongside and sing a music’ in relation to this shit. MAGA are the primary folks to scream about ‘law and order,’ however then cry when anybody holds them accountable for his or her dangerous selections and poor morals. So buck up, buttercup! You wished the felon. You proceed to look the opposite manner, you make excuses for the hate and the ache and struggling he’s inflicting…now you’re simply having to take care of the implications of your actions. Isn’t that what the present administration is all about? Paying the worth for dangerous conduct? Effectively, you bought it! Now take care of it. You don’t GET to have your racist, misogynistic, bigoted cake and eat it too.”
6. “No one should be shocked when this happens. It was a heated election. I have not spoken to friends and family for many of their decisions.”
“My mother stopped speaking to me when she didn’t like someone I was dating. So yeah fuck her for voting for Trump and anyone else who did.”
7. “I am estranged from my father because he became a MAGA zombie, accusing me of all manner of sex crimes because I’m on the rainbow.”
“His behavior includes a pattern I’ve noticed in stories I’ve read and heard about other families rent asunder by MAGA: The Trump supporter says and does vile things (I won’t soil the English language or the Web by repeating some of the things my father said) and make themselves the victims when their family members, friends, or other people not only express umbrage, but prove them factually wrong. They are overgrown children who refuse to accept the consequences of their words and actions.
As an example, before our split, my father would whine about the way people — especially Black people — reacted when he wore his MAGA hat and Trump T-shirt. ‘But I have freedom of expression,’ he’d whine. ‘And so do they,’ I’d remind him.”
8. “My sister calls it ‘a difference in opinion.’ I see it as a moral decision.”
“You cannot be at church every time the doors open and turn your back on everyone who doesn’t look and think like you. You can not claim you love this country if you support the people who openly and proudly disrespect the Constitution and everything it represents. My sister voted against the best interest of her daughters and granddaughter, as well as my daughter and three granddaughters. She voted against the aid our mother with dementia gets in a nursing home. She voted for honest, hardworking people being basically kidnapped and sent to prisons in places outside this country, and for people who peacefully protest these actions to be tear-gassed and assaulted.”
9. “I kept telling myself that it was silly to cut ties with someone over politics until I realized that I’m embarrassed to be seen with or associated with people like that.”
“As stated by many other commenters, these ideations go far beyond politics.”
—jlynn715
10. “I am anti-Trump, and so are my two oldest kids and their spouses, but my youngest daughter and her husband are very pro-Trump.”
“We just don’t talk about it. I asked my 16-year-old granddaughter a question about Trump one day, and she said her parents told her not to talk to me about him. That kind of breaks my heart because I don’t think she understands just what kind of person he is. I don’t understand why my daughter and her husband like him. I think my son-in-law told me one time because he’s a businessman and this country needs someone like that. Trump isn’t even a good businessman. So I can’t even approach them about the subject.”
—redbunny6273
11. “I’m lucky enough to only have one MAGA family member, and there’s no need to go no contact ‘cause he just turned 96 and frankly doesn’t know how to use his phone. However, all the ‘leave politics at the door’ rhetoric is bullshit, because the division is not about politics.”
“MAGA itself isn’t about politics. It’s about who gets human rights, compassion, and safety. So, in conclusion, if your kids don’t talk to you because you voted for Trump, ask yourself what POLICIES you disagree on. Then ask yourself what PRINCIPLES you disagree on. If your kids stand firm on their principles, you should be proud that you played a part in raising a human who stands up for what they believe in.”
“She actually said to me that they shouldn’t be having sex. I sincerely hope she never has a daughter-in-law.”
13. “I’m still in contact with my conservative mom, but it’s very challenging. We have very little that is ‘safe’ for us to talk about, because nearly all current events are political.”
“Today, she sent me a Facebook message in response to my story from the No Kings protest. She doesn’t get what we’re collectively upset about. Her argument was that Clinton and Obama deported people, too. Why was that okay, and this isn’t? I explained it to her as calmly as I could, but after three exchanges, I stopped replying. It’s not going to change either of our minds. Her sister, my aunt, reached out to me earlier today and was proud of me for protesting. She can’t talk to my mom about this stuff either. My mom’s longtime close friend, who is like an aunt to me, also cut contact with her over politics. I’m always envious of people who are best friends with their moms.”
14. “My mother used to call me up screaming about how Obama was going to take everything from the rich and give it to the poor! I said, ‘Great! You are poor! Go get in line.’”
“She is destitute, but somehow Obama was going to take her money! Fox News is to blame for this one.”
—cheesypear852
15. “My mom looked at my queer kids after the 2016 election and said to them that they didn’t deserve equal rights because they were sinful.”
“We didn’t talk ’til she got sick. I privately am glad she died before this election. She died in July 2020 during COVID after actively following Trump’s example.”
—glitteryangel852
16. And eventually, “Being MAGAts has turned my once pretty cool parents into hateful, racist, angry, evangelical, selfish monsters. It’s absolutely insane what that cult has done to them.”
“I am not fully no contact yet, but if they don’t change their ways, I will be. At this point, holidays don’t happen anymore, and we talk a few times a year through texts. I can’t handle them anymore. The last time we got together with them was last July and my father went off on an angry rampage, screaming about all kinds of crazy shit and ended it with how Obama is Satan. So, decided no more in-person visits after that. This is their own doing.”
—mschanandlerbong
