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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is due to social media, but not in the way he meant.  Before social media, it was super easy to minimize the contact with your parents to maybe a visit every other year and a phone call once every few weeks.  If they are local, then a dinner out every couple of months.  No need to declare anything for anyone.

Enter social media.  If one or both sides tend to post every sneeze, the state of the relationship is now a daily dilemma.

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This is an insightful and nuanced take, PP - thank you. I'm VLC with my parents, who were VLC with their parents (their parents were an ocean away in a time of expensive long distance calls and flights) and I totally agree that the pressure to constantly check in via text/social media makes it much more obvious that VLC is in fact intentional. [/quote]

PP.  The more I think of it, the more I realize how social media sows the outrage.  Someone above said that it’s OK to cut off your relatives if they are homophobic.  I (GenX) honestly have no idea how my grandparents (Greatest Generation) voted or what they thought about gays.  There are no gays in my immediate family and the topic never came up during my conversations with my grandparents otherwise. [/quote]

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