I would have direct messaged you, but I missed your username.

I’m guessing you’re not the first member here to experience children using grandchildren as leverage over political beliefs. We’re here for you, and we’re good listeners if you’d like to continue the conversation.

My email is in my profile.

^^^ What he said!

Way too common (funny / not funny).

Before anyone goes off on a rant, this is still our daughter.

Thanks, but we are dealing with it.

I wish you the best Sir

There are plenty of stories about this happening all over social media, I think some people are reading this BS and then enacting it on their own families, brainwashed by people in their online peer groups.

Blue Bands, Shaved heads, hurting parents, or spouses through withholding grandkids, or sex, divorce.

Tucker Carlson said his mom told him he wasn't welcome at her house for Thanksgiving.

The amount of mind screwing these people got from the people on the left is unreal.

Thanksgiving dinner is gonna be “huge”.

It was me. I've been very upset, this is kind of where the rubber hits the road with me. I love my daughter, but I will not be manipulated. This may be a dick move, but if she keeps this shit up, I'm re-doing my will to put what I would have left her into a trust for my grandson. Thanks for the support. It's hard to talk to anyone about this, but I feel as if I know you all.

It was never my intent to “out” you. But I read your OP and for reasons it hit home. Hard.

Sadly, this has become too common.

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Originally posted by Fredward:
It was me. I've been very upset, this is kind of where the rubber hits the road with me. I love my daughter, but I will not be manipulated. This may be a dick move, but if she keeps this shit up, I'm re-doing my will to put what I would have left her into a trust for my grandson. Thanks for the support. It's hard to talk to anyone about this, but I feel as if I know you all.

So, there are two of us. We also will not be maniuplated. Good luck.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:

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Originally posted by Fredward:
It was me. I've been very upset, this is kind of where the rubber hits the road with me. I love my daughter, but I will not be manipulated. This may be a dick move, but if she keeps this shit up, I'm re-doing my will to put what I would have left her into a trust for my grandson. Thanks for the support. It's hard to talk to anyone about this, but I feel as if I know you all.

So, there are two of us. We also will not be maniuplated. Good luck.

Make that 3 of us.

My, my, this is far more common than I ever knew. I guess it happened over and over again in history, but I thought we as a people were smarter than that these days.
Interestingly enough, I am a daughter with a son, and my mother once confronted me about ever withholding her grandson from her… I was shocked, tbh.
We definitely have different political opinions, but I never once considered using him as a pawn. She is a wonderful mother to me and a wonderful grandmother.
I set her straight, and we’ve never discussed it since. That was years ago.. I will say we do not get too far into politics because we are too polarized on that subject. But someone, somewhere, put a bug in her ear. My dad just shook his head (he leans my way, politically, though).

I’m so sorry, guys. I simply cannot imagine with holding love from my child, especially from those who love him so much and mean him no harm.

As far as I can tell, I don't think any of my more conservative friends/family have ever bailed on me due to major political disagreements.

On the other hand, I got a pretty decent softball teams worth of folks who haven't talked to me in many years because I didn't think Trump was Literally Hitler™, or because I wasn't a fan of Obama's policies. It's a fucking bummer.

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Originally posted by Fredward:
I will not be manipulated.

My oldest (daughter) is a radical feminist liberal in chIraq and my story is the same.

Best of luck to us all. These are strange times we live in. Gone are the days when one's children naturally adopted and obeyed the life's choices and philosophies of the parents.

Now, it's "every man for himself." Maybe more apropos: "Dog eat dog."

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:

On the other hand, I got a pretty decent softball teams worth of folks who haven't talked to me in many years because I didn't think Trump was Literally Hitler™,

Well, he doesn't have the mustache or the Hugo Boss suits, so . . .