I’ll go first: “You have to have children when you’re young,” told to me when I was in my late 20s, with no desire to ever have kids, and no means to support them, by someone divorced multiple times with at least one adult child who does not speak to them.

Also: Responding to “How do I deal with this problem?” questions with “Oh, don’t worry about it, it’s enough that you’re even thinking about it!”

  • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

    • "They’re your family so you have to maintain a relationship with them’
    • “man up”
    • attend church
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      That family crap is awful, I would be blessed to never speak a word to my relatives ever again. Luckily though, I’m on a 2 year streak

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      The first one is the worst. My dad says this to me all the time, well, why is it that I have to do all the work, they never try to maintain a relationship with me. Also, fuck them, they are terrible people, maybe I don’t want to maintain a relationship with toxic shitty people even if they are family.