Have you ever cut out a toxic family member before?

[Ravenfreak]

They say that blood is thicker than water but sometimes your family members can be toxic. Have you ever had to cut a family member out of your life since they were toxic? I recently had to unfriend and block one of my cousins back in January because she was posting super transphobic things and even mentioned myself and another family member who is gender fluid in a post. It was disgusting the things she was saying about trans people, and to drag me into it was uncalled for. I angry reacted to the status and she had the audacity to say "Cousin I'm sorry if I offended you, blah blah blah" so I responded back to her telling her that she is not a true Christian because she's transphobic and I didn't get a chance to see her response because I blocked her afterwards. Moral of the story is, it's okay to cut out toxic family members. I also haven't talked nor seen my grandmother in 16 years, I highly doubt she'd be happy to see me since she's a die hard Catholic who is probably against trans people existing too.

 

[Senkusha]

I've never had to cut out a blood family member, just my step mother, who made me feel like Cinderella as I grew up as a teenager under her roof. My fiancee has blocked her own mother from calling/texting because her mother said some pretty cruel things to her, but looks like that as time marches on, some forgiveness may be on the table? Not sure.

Modern day Christianity has been so twisted and corrupted, that it's more like a Cult these days.. I'm a Witch, (grew up Roman Catholic), and I understand and practice the teachings of how to live life according to what Jesus preached better than most people who proclaim they are Christian. The hypocrisy runs deep and wide. Actions always speak louder than words.

Why can't people just let people live their own lives? I'll never know, nor understand what is so provocative about controlling another human being (or other life form, for that matter). Anyway, besides being a Witch, most churches wouldn't welcome me in my preferred presentation either. They'd condemn me to rot in the Abyss for all Eternity. And all I have to do to counter that is say, look at your own spiritual leader's behavior. They be trading 100 years of pleasure for all of eternity in the abyss. Doesn't make too much sense to me, almost like the entire concept of Heaven and Hell are just made up to manipulate the mass population.