I'm in the process of officially going no contact with my abusive mother. And it sucks. This isn't fun. At least my cousins and aunts are being supportive, but it's still y'know, awful. I'm going to be talking to my grandparents about it later this week, and they've been trying to be supportive of my transition which is cool, but it's still not a conversation I'd want to be having. This all sucks and I feel bad. We as socialists are called on to be optimistic, if we weren't optimists then we wouldn't be socialists. But this is giving up all hope on a relationship that should have been better. But I didn't burn the bridges, and I shouldn't have to deal with her abuse, so I'm walking away. Still sucks.