Posted on 12/25/2018 10:25:54 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
She just left, she got very heated and angry with me. We were debating the state of the economy and the effects on minorities and she started spewing vile curse words and invective on Christmas Day.
Wow. Threw the Christmas cake on the ground. She's 35-years old, works in finance in Morristown, NJ and New York City.
I'm perplexed this holiday season. Now, I just want to stay home and just watch TV or something. Should I bring them over again?
Anyway, Merry Christmas.
I avoid controversial topics and when politics comes up I say that I don’t trust any of them, they are all crooks.
The conversation usually ends there.
I don’t put bumper stickers on my car or political signs in my yard.
Merry Christmas and a deserved new year!
You’re wise.
Funny, I got into a conversation with libs about the 2nd amendment. They said we don’t need automatic weapons, it went down hill from there.
She threw the pyrex on the kitchen floor. That was the glass that fell on the floor.
No, I was asking what other countries could possibly offer the hope of human rights that the U.S. still retains. Europe is done, except for Poland, and that may be temporary. Canada? Mexico? South America? Africa? Russia? The far East? No. Even Ireland and Australia are all up into loading SJW, muslim and refugee privileges on the backs of actual taxpaying citizens. The frontiers are all spoken for now. Mark Steyn was right, around 15 years ago, when he wrote America Alone.
How shocking for you. I hope our wide range of sarcastic-to-sympathetic commentary has helped you deal with it. Your post about her having a job offer in the midwest may be a blessing in disguise.
Whatever way it works out, you have a right to decorum in your own home, especially if you are hosting a meal. If any guest displays a pattern of disruption as this guest has, she needs to know what will and will not be tolerated, and you do need to determine whether her instability is an actual danger going forward. Do you have menfolk who will prepare to step in? Is she loony enough to brandish a weapon or grab one of your kitchen knives? What if she had hit you with the ten pounds of cake and shattered glass?
Now that she has done this dastardly deed, and if she remains unrepentant (and that means voluntarily expressing sincere remorse without being asked or prompted to apologize), she will likely harden her position and be even more dangerous to you in the future. Do not dismiss this in the vain hope it will all go away—even if she is your daughter or favorite niece or your mother's pet grandchild or your best sibling's "little girl." She is an alcoholic adult and all that goes with it.
If you feel you cannot give up on the relationship at this time for whatever reason, you must take responsibility for improving your skills. Consider seeking out and attending an Al-Anon group in your area, for relatives of alcoholics, which gives great support and advice to those whose family members are problem drinkers. I speak from experience. If alcohol abuse runs in your family, or you had an alcoholic parent (which causes adult children of alcoholics to be baffled by how to respond effectively), there are also great helps to be found through Al-Anon.
Ok, fair question. There’s a conservative blogger (as in solid pro-Trump) who lives in China (he’s American). He loves it there, and says that as long as you’re not trying to play politics there, even as an American, life is great - and no, they’re not about to let themselves be overrun by Islamics or Third World types.
But I do agree with you and Mr. Steyn, not much hope in what is now considered the ‘free world’ - and the people behind the destruction of our culture need to be HELD ACCOUNTABLE, in some way.
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