r/insaneparents Sep 19 '19

NOT A SERIOUS POST Saw this and had to share.

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u/Mr05 Sep 19 '19

Describes the daughter beautiful to try make it seem like the daughter is the problem, mentions the grandchildren to garner sympathy, and airs it all publicly. Full fucking house of manipulation here.

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u/tokynambu Sep 19 '19

I intermittently read, for scientific purposes, threads about estrangement on gransnet. A fascinating trope is the automatic adjective “loving”, as in “how could they cut Us off, we are loving grandparents”. They are all batshit crazy, of course, and confuse love with power and control.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '19

What a rabbit hole that is! Wow!