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re: Funny story about my liberal daughter.

Posted on 2/15/25 at 9:58 am to
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
116767 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 9:58 am to
Letting go of an adult child is much better than the exact opposite. I have an 88 y.o. friend with one daughter. She had a baby she couldn't afford (or want) and dumped it off on him to raise. That granddaughter grew up and got pregnant with a daughter she couldn't afford (or want) to raise. She dumped it off and now this guy is raising his great granddaughter when he should be relaxing in his final years of life.
Posted by eitek1
Member since Jun 2011
2762 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:03 am to
I would tell your wife to say something like “I’m not going to go behind your fathers back and provide you with funding, that’s now how marriage works”.

When she comes to you, and she will, tell her that you considered her letter very carefully and you would be doing her a disservice if you didn’t allow her to “live her truth” or something nonsensical like that.

Everyone has a “theory of flight”, so to speak. This would be their guiding principles that allows them to “take flight” as a person. This theory is a general understanding on how the world works and how they function within it.


Your “theory of flight” provides so much “lift” that it is sufficient to carry your entire family comfortably. There is so much “lift” you can even support the craft your daughter built using her own “theory of flight”.


Now, she has told you that your theory is stupid and ridiculed you for even considering the “theory” that has provided her flight for her entire life, is air worthy. Now she is in Boston desperately trying to take flight using her own “theory of flight” and it will never get off of the ground. She is asking to tether to your plane to get off the ground so she can continue to pretend her theory is sound.

Now is the time to put her theories and her friends to the test. Tell her that you’ve considered her letter and she actually may be correct, you may be wrong. It would be irresponsible to dilute her journey by carrying her baggage. At a minimum she should have the “grit” and courage of her convictions not to take the easy way out. Teaching her that at a minimum is worth it.
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
31594 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:03 am to
he sounds like a salt of the earth type guy

I hope that the great grand winds up doing well and bless that old baw
Posted by Bunkie7672
Member since Mar 2020
1072 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:04 am to
Enjoy those fake internet points bro
Posted by Houag80
Member since Jul 2019
18057 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:08 am to
Sounds like you blow alot of ignorant femboys.
Posted by leeman101
Huntsville, AL
Member since Aug 2020
2436 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:13 am to
Just tell her some BS that you were always afraid she'd be the one that would not make it on her on. Then tell her to prove you wrong.
Posted by TygerTyger
Houston
Member since Oct 2010
10749 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:16 am to
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The Parable of the Prodigal Son


I hate this lesson. It’s basically saying “go off and be a shithead loser who abandons responsibility and accountability, pisses away his family ties, and then after royally fricking up, gets welcomed back with open arms. Meanwhile the responsible son who did everything right just has to deal with it.”

frick the prodigal son, he’s an a-hole.
Posted by Undertow
Member since Sep 2016
8894 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:23 am to
All you can do is remind her that you love her every now and then.
Posted by Geekboy
Member since Jan 2004
7316 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:25 am to
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she had come to realize that she doesn't need me or anything from me

So when she asks, ask her what changed. Tell her you thought she didn’t need anything from you. Ask her why she isn’t sticking to her principles.

Then tell her, “Oh I forgot. Most liberals are full of shite. Until something affects them personally they are always high and mighty and condescending. I forgot liberals are the biggest hypocrites alive. How much do you need, phony?”
Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
32993 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:26 am to
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Don’t want to push her into a commune or cult.
Too late, she’s already in a cult if she’s a lib.
Posted by PensaTigers
Pensacola
Member since Sep 2018
3279 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:29 am to
Goes to show you how unbelievably important it is to keep your thumb on the pulse of who your kids hang around. At some point, they get more direction and influenced by their peers than their parents. If you let your child surround themselves with weak, unintelligent cowards then that's who they will become. I'll always keep a close eye on their friends and challenge my kids wrong ideas in a non egotistical way to help them grow.

I had a cousin who was doing well with us down south, she came to stay with us for a year to get away from the drugs in Oregon. Her views changed a lot, she was much happier here, and at worst just smoked weed. Wasn't doing meth. She went back up there to that echo chamber of weak cowards and decided she was a guy now, and killed herself a year or two later. She was a beautiful young woman, had honest feminine traits, was attracted to masculine men, then she goes up there and they brainwashed her to think just because she says "dude" and "bro" a lot that she should be a guy, confused her, and when reality came crashing down she couldn't live with the societal hole she dug and took her own life.

frick the left.
Posted by leeman101
Huntsville, AL
Member since Aug 2020
2436 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:32 am to
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I hate this lesson. It’s basically saying “go off and be a shithead loser who abandons responsibility and accountability, pisses away his family ties, and then after royally fricking up, gets welcomed back with open arms. Meanwhile the responsible son who did everything right just has to deal with it.”

frick the prodigal son, he’s an a-hole


But that is how many of us sinners are to God. We go off trying our plan and then fail. However God (through Jesus) will always welcome us back into His plan, no questions asked. Its about forgiveness.
Posted by Big Fat Guy
Member since Nov 2020
1112 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:32 am to
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A lot of normies don’t realize this, but young Leftist women are HEAVILY encouraged to repudiate their Fathers. And of course all their psychological problems will be because of Dad. It has always been a phenomenon but it is just completely widespread now. Hang in there, OP and double down with your children who choose to be loving.
This right here, 100 percent. It's a woke ritual, a technique they stole from cult psychology.

It's honestly so sad, they get sent off to these liberal indoctrination centers (colleges and universities) and some woke POS teachers get them all to think that their country is terrible, that everything bad that ever happened is because of people like their dad, and then they get them to disavow their family, culture, nation and history. At that point, what else do they have? The brainwashing is complete, the cult now has full control.

This problem has only been magnified by social media. Now everyone's daughter has an audience of woke friends to appeal to and perform for. I've seen this, daughters trashing their family members for likes from her woke friends, criticizing even benign posts from relatives that don't pass their new woke standards.

Another problem in the modern day--all the illicit avenues people have to make money online. If a young woman is not willing to humble down and reconcile with her parents, she might look to something like Seeking Arrangements. Worst case scenario, OnlyFans.

Dylan kind of nailed it with Rolling Stone:

'You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you’re gonna have to get used to it
You said you’d never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He’s not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain’t no good
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discover that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal'

Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
32993 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:35 am to
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This is tragic. And sad. You have one life. And you and your daughter will both regret this. I would try to fix this.
Nah, frick this thinking.

I don’t have kids, but if I did, I’d completely cut her out of my life. I don’t believe in unconditional love. You treat people as they deserve based on how they treat you and others.

I have a nephew who pulled this bullshite. Said our whole family was racist that he wouldn’t be a part of us. I completely wrote him off. Didn’t talk to him for years. frick him. He finally started talking to a few members of our family (females) and slowly started to soften his language and views of us. He came in for my father’s funeral (his grandfather who he was estranged from also) in August and was very pleasant with us and I returned the sentiments.

I don’t play that bullshite. You hate me and disrespect me for no good reason except your political beliefs and you’re getting the same treatment. Respect and love is a two way street.
This post was edited on 2/15/25 at 10:36 am
Posted by thejudge
Westlake, LA
Member since Sep 2009
15074 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:36 am to
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She's my kid so I don't think I could ever let her completely crash and burn


Then she'll never learn.

She needs to figure out what ideals fund a life successfully.

It's easy for her to shite on your ideals but that's what's funding her ideals.

I would pay for her to come move back if needed and that would be it.

It's tough.
Posted by La Place Mike
West Florida Republic
Member since Jan 2004
30917 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:37 am to
Give her money but make her earn it by providing proof that she is volunteering at a migrant shelter or a food bank. Don't let her sit on her moral high horse and preach but actually do something.

On second thought the migrant shelter is not a good idea. She might become a target and suffer actual harm. You know, the food bank may not be safe either. Sorry dude. You're in a tough spot.
Posted by gumpinmizzou
Member since May 2017
3283 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:37 am to
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I don’t believe in unconditional love.


Do you believe in God?
Posted by dalefla
Central FL
Member since Jul 2024
3321 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:39 am to
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Dude, don’t let politics ruin your relationship with your daughter.


I used to agree with you but what we are experiencing now is way beyond political disagreement. It is a split in cultural underpinning and, truthfully, it's about a country with morals and one without. It's about a country where you are free to succeed or fail based on your personal decisions and consequences or a "nanny state" where the government choses winner and losers with most of us not in the club.

Liberals in general carry a lot of mental baggage. Most never shed it but I hope OP's daughter does. She's young enough to change course.

FWIW, my gay liberal brother told me I'm not his brother anymore. I laughed at him and wished him happiness. I'll probably never see or speak to him, again, as we're in our mid 60's.
This post was edited on 2/15/25 at 10:40 am
Posted by Champagne
Sabine Free State.
Member since Oct 2007
53645 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:41 am to
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Unfortunately she made her own bed.


Advise her to join the United States Armed Forces.
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
Member since Oct 2020
6784 posts
Posted on 2/15/25 at 10:43 am to
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my gay liberal brother told me I'm not his brother anymore. I laughed at him and wished him happiness. I'll probably never see or speak to him, again, as we're in our mid 60's

You sure your gay brother isn’t 14? That’s weird coming from a 60 year old.
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