WARNING! WARNING! THE FOLLOWING COLUMN WAS WRITTEN BY A PSYCHOLOGICALLY TOXIC PERSON WHO HAS FAILED TO EVOLVE! AS SUCH, IT IS NOT EMOTIONALLY SAFE TO READ! DO NOT READ! WARNING! READING MAY ENHANCE ONE’S ABILITY TO DISCERN TRUTH FROM FALSEHOOD!
“Your house isn’t an emotionally safe place, so if you want to see your grandchildren, you can come to our house, where we can supervise.”
“I’ve realized that you’re emotionally toxic, which isn’t your fault, but you need to go into therapy and show me that you’re coming to grips with your contamination before we can have a relationship.”
“You don’t understand or respect the need for boundaries, which is why we have to have a period of no-contact, during which you need to go into therapy and work out your boundaries issues.”
That’s a representative sampling of the postmodern narrative that’s coming to define Generations X and Y, the latter being more commonly known as Millennials—those individuals born between 1965 and 1995. The babble, translated, means “You [the parents, usually Baby Boomers] are emotionally defective people who desperately need to seek self-understanding and emotional rehabilitation from therapists.”
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