I understand you are 70 plus years old. I understand that you’ve seen a lot in your years. I even understand that you have very strong opinions, and that you are quite unwilling to change them.
But what I don’t understand is how after 20 years of being a huge influence in your family, you can walk away from them. You stop coming to the great-grandkid’s birthday parties, you stop coming to holiday dinners. You basically cut yourself off from everyone.
And why? Because you don’t agree with someone’s lifestyle. One person out of 15, and you just cut us all out?
Just because that one person isn’t going to get married and have kids like you always imagined. Because they fell in love with someone who you don’t approve of?
She is happy. She is being true to herself. Instead of trying to please everyone else, she’s doing what’s right for herself. I hate to tell you, but even though you call her “sinful,” she’s doing better than the rest of us.
She’s been through graduate school, she’s not the one struggling to make ends meet, working god-awful hours at a miserable job. She’s not the one who’s battled depression on and off for years. She was the “perfect one” growing up, not the one cutting herself, throwing up after meals, sneaking out at night.
But your little definition of perfection has been shattered now. And you just can’t accept that.
I think you may be the one who needs to grow up.
Your Granddaughter
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