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Any advice for how to deal with my mom?
So I came here to ask this because she’s Christian, and I’m wondering if any of you have had an experience like this with a parent, and how you dealt with it. So, I’m not a Christian, I was one a year ago, but I left due to reasons I won’t disclose, and if you’re looking to reconvert me, don’t bother. If the Christian God wants me, he can deal with it on his own time, ok? I’ll get to the thing I’m asking for advice on now. So, a couple details about my mom first, she’s conservative, she’s a young earth creationist, she believes that the satanic panic/Salem witch trials did what they were supposedly doing, and she’s homophobic/transphobic. And we live in Canada. If you have any more questions about her I’ll see if I can give you more details. So, apparently she now believes that movies with “magic” will destroy faith, so for example, Shrek. Since it’s a fairytale world it obviously has fairytale “magic”, so apparently she believes that Shrek (the franchise) will destroy the faith of Christians. Idk where she’s getting any of that from, she’s not getting any of that from church, that’s for sure. One sermon from a short while back included something like “not just assuming that you’re the only one who is correct in an argument” do you think she took that to heart? Spoiler alert, she didn’t. She’s going crazy and there’s nothing I can do to help her. If she wanted to do that and just leave others alone to judge for themselves, I wouldn’t have much of a problem with her doing that, I would just try to help her if it started to get out of hand, but no. She decided that she’ll try to stop anyone who lives in the house from doing/getting stuff, if she decides that it’s evil in her eyes. And you can’t negotiate with her on that, she won’t budge, and she refuses to listen to reason. She just says “you can say what you want to say about that, but I won’t believe you” (this isn’t exactly what she said, but it’s pretty close, and it’s probably what she meant) I don’t want to believe that it’s hopeless, but it certainly seems that way. And I will accept evidence In whichever direction it points, so long as it’s proven/provable, not superstition or dogma disguised as evidence, and so long as it’s not cherry picked. And I even told her that, but she hasn’t even tried to provide evidence. She also apparently believes that “Wreck-it-Ralph is about rebelling against God”, and idk what she believes about Spider-Man, but she sure tries to keep people from seeing that. And she’s only getting worse, if you have any advice on how to either help or deal with this nonsense until I move out that would be appreciated (I’m not able to move out quite yet, I just don’t have the money to do that quite yet) I think the situation might be hopeless. Thankfully dad’s not like that, and I could just watch the stuff when she’s not here, but it’s tougher than you might think. Hopefully this helps, if you want to pray, go ahead, but I’ll take any advice you can give me. If you have any more questions, just ask and I’ll try to help.
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