Facebook became so upsetting, I hid all those recent posts and have not gone back on it since this incident last week. At least 50% of the friends were ranting their political hatred for one party or the other. The fighting on their posts was too upsetting for me. I mostly scrolled swiftly past it, giving likes to the feel-good cat videos or the nice posts from friends traveling the world, etc...

I regret letting my niece’s post trigger me to responding. I honestly thought I’d get a reasonable response from her and am shocked I got what did happen.

Obviously, my sister is offended that, while reminding her I have PTSD and telling her “F you” (which was really just a base way of saying “you really hurt me”), she blew me off and really won’t call me again, certainly not with an apology. I won’t apologize either. I do regret my resort to curse words, but I don’t regret defending myself, and she had it coming.

I am the least political person! I don’t have any say in Kavanaugh’s nomination. To me, this was about what do I mean to my family.

I don’t have any private phone relationship with my niece. The only way I do know her is to see her posts through facebook.

This disowning, silent treatment behavior is an abuse tool perpetuated by my mother who has done this to me any time she doesn’t like anything I do or say.

Abandonment in my family truly is this simple and permanent and over absolutely nothing. Then, when they want something from me, they’ll call and try to act like nothing ever happened. I’m done with that BS.