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24 votes
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When is it okay to give up?
When is is okay to give up on making a situation work? I legitimately ask, as I’ve pretty much given up on most “immediate” family in recent months. As an American federal civilian employee, I...
When is is okay to give up on making a situation work?
I legitimately ask, as I’ve pretty much given up on most “immediate” family in recent months. As an American federal civilian employee, I found the rhetoric of my immediate family crazy enough to warrant cutting them out of my life. I can’t get beyond their clear contempt for my livelihood. Despite conversations regarding how a certain admin’s policies are making my life worse, I have been told constantly not to complain because it could be worse. So I have “given up” and no longer interact with them. There have been further conversations prior to this, but I don’t think it’s necessarily important to the conversation.
I ask this legitimately, as I am feeling guilt over it, despite the fact that I no longer feel dread or anxiety about it. I haven’t visited immediate family in over 2 months now, despite living within walking distance.
At what point should one continue making attempts to repair to maintain relationships, even familial, and when is it okay to end them?
34 votes -
The women of the West are making political history — and have been for 130 years
4 votes -
The big question touching a nerve this US election: "Can my husband find out who I am voting for?"
55 votes -
Patriarchy according to the Barbie movie
9 votes -
How Chinese students experience America
23 votes -
US President Joe Biden just signed the largest executive order focused on women’s health
23 votes -
The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now.
77 votes -
The historic Gullah-Geechee community is fighting to retain its land and culture in South Carolina
24 votes -
US workers are dying in heat wave but Joe Biden administration is still working on federal standards for working in extreme heat
29 votes -
The best way to find out if someone is a Donald Trump voter? Ask them what they think about manhood.
29 votes -
The manufacturing backlash: No factory in my backyard
15 votes -
California needs real math education: an essay
16 votes -
US citizens can now sponsor refugees directly. Here’s how to apply.
9 votes -
The most lawless county in Texas
9 votes -
A culture that kills its children has no future
8 votes -
Why being anti-science is now part of many rural Americans’ identity
15 votes -
An unprecedented California program is already fulfilling its promise to house the most vulnerable
11 votes -
Joe Biden wants the country to heal from its political divisions. But many people say they aren’t ready to reconnect with their estranged friends and family members.
23 votes -
The gig economy is coming for millions of American jobs
10 votes -
Gender and right-wing extremism in America: Why understanding women’s roles is key to preventing future acts of domestic terrorism
7 votes -
‘Fuck your feelings’ never applies to White men
14 votes -
What an economic liberal and conservative learned from their friendship
5 votes -
The second phase of unemployment will be harsher: For American workers displaced by recession, widespread public sympathy soon gives way to moralizing anger
11 votes -
Joe Biden adopts part of a tuition-free public college proposal as a nod to US progressives
10 votes -
Evelyn Yang speaks at Women's March about her sexual assault
8 votes -
Denser housing is gaining traction on America’s east coast
9 votes -
Reply All - The Real Enemy (3-parts)
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4 votes -
Why is childcare so expensive?
13 votes -
Bay Area students and teachers rally for school funding and Prop 13 reform
6 votes -
I lost my job for keeping Charlottesville police accountable. I'd do it again
12 votes -
The UA Regents were wrong to think help was on the way—and this weekend proved it
6 votes -
New measure would link jobs and housing in San Francisco
8 votes -
Americans reflect on the prevalence and pain of being told "go back to your country"
13 votes -
Undocumented, vulnerable, scared: The US women who pick your food for $3 an hour
6 votes -
Alaska fears 'brain drain' after forty-one percent proposed cut to university system
12 votes -
Patriotism has always fueled marginalization
5 votes -
Rent and its discontents: Against the landlords and the police, in cities poisoned by wealth
6 votes -
Workers with disabilities are making cents per hour — and it’s legal
19 votes -
New York is one step closer to becoming first state to ban cat declawing
11 votes -
Henry Montgomery Paved the Way for Other Juvenile Lifers to Go Free. Now 72, He May Never Get the Same Chance.
10 votes -
Political confessional: I think private schools should be banned
23 votes -
A generation is learning how to strike: An interview with Isra Hirsi
6 votes -
Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting
12 votes -
Truly progressive policies to support stable, affordable rental housing for all are a golden political opportunity
11 votes -
A search for answers, a search for blame - In grieving Parkland, a fight over school discipline and the PROMISE program is ripping the community apart
4 votes -
Bernie Sanders' staff unionizes in US presidential campaign first
17 votes -
Barack Obama on masculinity: 'You don't need eight women around you twerking'
17 votes -
A swamp divided: How Donald Trump's arrival turned DC nightlife upside down
4 votes -
A Texas elementary school speech pathologist refused to sign a pro-Israel oath, so she lost her job
18 votes