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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for all the comments and feedback. For those who wonder if I'm being overly sensitive to harmless remarks or just lousy "old people" behavior, it's been years of thousands of cuts, insults, and holding my tongue. I realize now that they acted that way towards other friends and relatives, getting into nasty spats unaware that they're out of bounds.

Now it's morphed into attacks on our parenting, our life choices, religion, school, you name it. Throw in MAGA beliefs and telling my husband and I that we just have to accept that Trump is doing the best he can for the country and "we're here for you if you lose our jobs" but NEVER, EVER, "what is being done to federal workers is unjust, you have honorable work, you deserve to get the pensions you earned just like we got our pensions" (my parents were both public sector state workers who retired with very generous pensions that will keep them in their home for the rest of their lives)  and I'm pretty much done. I do not think they have our best interest at heart especially their grandkids' best interest at heart, so why do I owe them much at this point in my life. I even asked my father point blank, do you think my husband and good friends of mine who earned their federal jobs deserve to be treated this way, and he would not answer me. [/quote]

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