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Depression hopelessness family division
Has anyone dealt with family division, especially with grown children, over politics. I am distraught that my son feels he doesn’t want to be around us and his siblings for this reason. I have been an on call grandmother for almost eleven years for them. They have two daughters almost 11 and 7. Because of how much time I have spent with them (everyone says I raised them), I am especially close to them and they to me. Now, I feel that relationship is threatened, and I’m despondent. I have all but lost the will to live. My other children would never dream of behaving this way.
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I am convinced that the news we used to receive came from newspapers that were professionally proofread, and edited. I see it with my husband, everything he reads on the Internet, even though we get a newspaper he’ll still go to the Internet first, he accepts his gospel truth. When he tells me something totally unbelievable that he read in the “news “, I ask him what website is that from? He has no idea, goes back and reads off some name that I have never ever heard about. Then I suggest to him why don’t you go to one of the recognizable websites for news like NBC or some other source and see what they say about it. He will usually go and then tells me it doesn’t show up on their website at all. I will check another one ditto. Then I point out to him that anytime he reads something that’s newsworthy in a good or bad way to check the site he’s reading. If it’s some unrecognizable place get out of there.
Think a lot of what is accepted as “truth “is spin on websites and or TV shows. I live in a 55+ community and I can’t tell you how many women I have met back here who tell me they only watch one particular news station. I won’t mention it here, but they always say I really like this “news “station because the pretty girls who present the news seems so nice! Lack of critical thinking is stunning. And not in a good way. That’s just my opinion. I have continue to get newspapers my entire life and continue to do so now. It is very expensive to get a daily newspaper, but it is absolutely critical to have a professionally edited source of information. I think that is the missing link, JMHO.
@kb2014 you might consider getting your husband a hobby or an activity out of the home so he is distracted? If you can help him find something more interesting than watching 24/7 news you’ll both be better off. I too consume a lot of news but I don’t get worked up about it. At 73 the end grows nearer and I’m not sweating the current insanity world wide. My chronic illnesses are painful but manageable most of the time. This will change as I age I know. But again I’m OK with it, I’ve lived a successful productive life. Another approach would be to get up and walk to another room when he starts sharing or make him do the same. Good luck.
I have come to accept there is nothing I can do but appreciate your comments on him getting a hobby. He is a good man . We own an RV and keeps up the maintenance. I can only keep working on changing me.