I just like using this site to vent, and today I’m gonna vent about a relative and politics. Not super exciting just kinda hurtful. My aunt was visiting for Thanksgiving and her and I have always been close, but this time she was being really nasty. Calling me an idiot indirectly, saying I don’t know anything, being nonchalant and showing no excitement about the new places I’d take her to. She had nothing nice to say. We went to one of her favorite stores, Central Market, and she just didn’t want to be there with me. Yet, she went the very next day with my sister in secret. We went to her hair appointment together as we always do and she just talked to the stylist about how ‘stupid’ trump supporters are. I did not want to engage. She’s older, lives far away, I love her and I barely get to see her anymore. I wasn’t about to bite back by saying Trump supporters feel the same way about Kamala supporters. I just kept sipping my coffee while she’d side eye me. I said ‘I’m not gonna bite at what you’re saying’, because she and the stylist kept expecting some kind of retaliation or response on my part. ‘Oh no, you don’t have to say anything, were just talking.’
Her whole energy was different towards me because I voted for Trump, and I have no regrets voting for him. Politics is politics. We can’t all see eye to eye and I understand that. I think she’s in the wrong, while she thinks I’m in the wrong. But that’s no reason to be an a** to each other. It’s unfortunate, because I love her regardless of who she votes for, and we’re all getting older. She talks about dying soon and I’d hate for some of our last meetings to be so.. ugly. Especially due to politics.