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Posted on 04/25/2026 4:47:19 PM PDT by daniel1212
More Americans are choosing to walk away from difficult relationships instead of working through them, a new survey has revealed.
Nearly two in five Americans — 38% — say they have gone "no contact" with a friend or family member in the past year, according to a survey of 2,000 adults conducted in March by Talker Research for the therapy platform Talkspace...
Younger Americans were far more likely than older generations to report cutting someone off. The survey found that 60% of Gen Z respondents had gone "no contact," compared to 50% of millennials, 38% of Gen X and 20% of baby boomers...
John Puls..said , "This generation appears to have a low tolerance for otherwise poor behavior from their parents," .. "They are often conflict-avoidant, which prevents them from trying to meaningfully work through their issues with their parents."..
Thirty-six percent of overall respondents said the top reason for severing ties with someone was feeling disrespected. Nearly 30% said the relationship negatively affected their mental health or that the other person was too negative....
The cutoffs often appear to last.
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Love covers a multitude of sins.
Where’s the love?
Deeply cruel...
Starting with screening calls with CallerID, and then not having landlines, using doorbell cameras, and ghosting on social media apps, people can distance themselves from toxic people...
...who just might happen to be family.
That reads like textbook 'blaming the victim'.
People make a lot of money online these days, so dropping out of work does not mean what it did in decades past.
People make a lot of money online these days, so dropping out of work does not mean what it did in decades past.
(Effectively) the same thing!
Regards,
Eh, frankly, why invest energy into maintaining something that’s not worthwhile? If someone’s not treating me right and doesn’t care enough to change that, rather than pitch a fit, shrugging my shoulders and focusing on the folks that do makes plenty of sense.
If they’re fine with that, and so am I, who’s really hurt? And if they’re not fine with that, well, they can make some changes or figure it’s not worth the hassle the same way that I or anyone else does, too. Often, this comes after a long time of trying, with another party not really feeling like pulling their end of things.
“(Effectively) the same thing!” but it is not the same thing.
I’m a boomer, and admit that I’m a runner. I’ll “cut off” an asshole rather than try to make nice with him.
Lol. Were you close?
It’s not just those born in a 20-year span who have created the corruption and decline.
Our kids are spread throughout the country yet they are all very close with each other.
There’s one In-Law and soon to be another. They were welcomed heartily into the gang. The grandkid in the oven gets an easy pass on that and will be pretty spoiled.
Even though they are distant, Facebook Messenger keeps them tight. We have a family chat and they have another sibling chat that we parents aren’t allowed into.
Growing up, we gave them responsibilities and independence.
Then there’s my brother. His wife cut us off a few minutes after opening our wedding gift. She made sure that their kids hate us as much as she does.
One niece couldn’t be bothered to bring her fiance the whole ten miles to meet her grandmother then got mad when Grandma (who has dementia) forgot her boyfriend’s name. She sent Grandma a note disinviting her from the wedding.
It’s the fault of the parents. A hate filled nasty woman and a weak man. My brother and I text birthday greetings once a year but that’s it.
In this era of TDS it’s hard to know where it bleeds into something like this. Blood is thicker than water. People will instinctively put up with a lot from family but if it gets to trying that’s that. There is a point where the trouble isn’t in worth the reward.
“Just which Boomers are the culprits? “
The ones that the media loved and encouraged starting back in the late sixties. They are the only boomers that were boomers to me, the rest of us were just people. The anger spewing fist pumping activist assholes. The loud showy visible ones. Someone the same age patrolling a rice paddy in ‘Nam wasn’t a boomer to me.
A line from a song I wrote on the subject decades ago:
You’re proud you haven’t changed at all since you were seventeen
When you raised your voice and so impressed yourself that today you still believe
All the silly good intentions in your adolescent master plan…
Feeling’s mutual.
Lots of those snowflakes deserve disrespect. Respect is earned, not an innate right.
mental health
Toughen up, snowflakes.
Did anybody ever think they'd see the day that a pope would condemn a president of the United States and then open a prayer room for muslims in the Vatican and never say a negative word about them hanging eight women.
Self-centered America
Stoner states not responding.
America wasnt on wheels until after ww2 when there was a huge expansion of personal transportation. Prior to that you didnt cut ties because you couldnt very easily. Frankly I am glad to cut ties with a—h—e relatives. The thought being stuck in some burg with TDS cousin Gary is too horrible to contemplate.
Dont blame baby boomers. Blame the ease of escaping jerks.
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