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Her (toxic) mom spent way more time and had much more influence on me than her new husband ever did.

As in, my maternal grandma.

Awful people all around.

Glad to be free from the one and only mom I got.
God knows I wouldn't have survived two of them.

BoopBeep, your name has changed??

Oh for goodness sake!!! Does every thread have to end up exactly the same??!!
If you don’t agree, how about just not retaliating, & thinking about the poor OP who you have now put off coming back by your pointless INCESSANT arguing!!!
Please come back Pinkpeony1 and just try to ignore the ones who only come on here to argue and talk about themselves, and always want to have the last word. And then they wonder why they are estranged….!!

Good pickup Delila. There have been concerns about BoopBeep expressed to GNHQ so maybe that account was closed and the poster chose a slightly different name to come back on. I've asked GNHQ just in case.

fancythat

Cam I ask people on this thread please, or others, what is the etiquette on threads like this?
I can still feel like a bit of a newbie on here sometimes.

If an op has stopped writing, should others carry on anyway?

Welcome!
Posting on here is a way to help you, and sometimes to help others.
I have learned over time that, whilst most people are reasonable and kind to others, there are some who just need to shout about what they think and who always have to have the last word.
There is a poster on here who isn’t even satisfied with one post about something that’s got up her nose! No, she needs 4 consecutive posts before she shuts up.one else’s opinion s accepted, it’s always contradicted, ridiculed and dismissed. Sometimes when I read her posts, I wonder about her state of mind. Surely no normal person could come out with such drivel?
She has, apparently been reported many times to GN but is still spouting on here. I would skip her posts but I am always too curious to see what she will come up with next.
I digress! You asked about etiquette. I think that if you are always polite and kind, you can’t go far wrong. That’s not to say you can’t disagree with posters, but if you do, don’t humiliate them. (There are exceptions to that rule, which you can guess from the content of the start of my post).
Don’t give away personal information about you or your family and friends. Be vague enough that people can’t guess who you are.
You asked if you should carry on if people have stopped writing about something. That’s up to you. If you do, you might find it revives the thread, but if there is no response, I would accept that the thread is finished with.
Don’t take all the posts as gospel. People lie for effect.
I don’t advise getting into arguments with people. Sometimes this is difficult to avoid (again, see the start of my post).
That said, I love it on here, and in the main, people are lovely, especially if something is worrying you.
Enjoy it!

As someone else already mentioned.

It's really not hard to see why estrangements occur in their personal life.

It's like trying to explain macroeconomics to a child.

They won't understand a single thing and simply think it was all just drivel.

Never learning a thing.

It's why permanent estrangement is so crucial for some unfortunate kids.

Every child deserves good parents. But not every parent deserves children.

It would do you a lot of good to remember that.

There's always one isn't there Crossstitchfan.

Smileless2012

There's always one isn't there Crossstitchfan.

There's often more than one, and they all, curiously, clamber onto the same threads 🤷‍♀️🙄

more than one or as I think it is in this case DL, the same one using different names.