The holidays are basically here.

It's the happiest time of the year for some, and for others, the opposite.

Like for me at the Halloween is literally downhill.

I picked up a snow glow the other day and just wanted to cry.

Nobody wants to go home and see their Republican family members.

There's an increasingly popular option for all the people who don't love seeing their parents

during the holidays or any other time of the year.

You can peace out.

So I cut my dad off, like a couple weeks ago.

I fully believe in protecting my own energy.

This is my polite reminder that if you

were no contact with your parents, that is okay. So one thing I really did not expect when I became

estranged from my parents was that I was going to have to be consoling other people about it,

like semi-frequently. We're going to take a deep breath and then we're going to talk about

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