Reply #52: Are you me? [View All]

[neebob]

Same story, except that I do recognize the woman who raised me. I just don't remember her being a total raving lunatic that I couldn't even stand to talk to.

There's a lot more to it than politics, as another poster suggests below, and I do feel like trying to straighten out the part for which I feel responsible - that is, being too honest about my dad (who died in April 2003) and the Mormon church. I could have kept those feelings to myself and been just fine.

The thing is, I know it will only make things worse because I've tried to straighten it out and it only got worse, so I haven't reached out either. She simply won't accept or even try to consider any other point of view. She believes I'm bad for criticizing Mr. I'm-a-Uniter-Not-a-Divider. I despise him, but neither he nor Rush nor O'Reilly is responsible for my mother's insanity.