saraha Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Will someone please tell my inlaws to STOP reading and BELIEVING all of those @#$% email forwards telling them what is "really going on" with a candidate, issue, in the government etc! It is definitely affecting my husband's relationship with them. Who in the heck taught them to get on the internet anyway!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 I'll have a chat with them for you if you talk to dh's uncle about the same thing. :glare: Dh and I have both stopped talking to him and blocked his posts on FB (at least until after the election) because he goes on and on about the "shocking info" in these emails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristyB in TN Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 My parents haven't spoken to us in 2 months now because we won't listen to it. This has been an unbelievably hurtful cycle and I can't wait for it to be over. My mother thinks she is the most well informed person of anyone she knows because she reads all of those emails. She thinks Snopes is the devil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saraha Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 I think what kills us is that it would take less than 2 minutes to verify the information, and we have told them how, but they don't, and don't believe us when we try to gently save them face by explaining how that can't be true. It hurts my husband most, he really respects his dad and his opinions and practicality, until now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristyB in TN Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Oh, gosh, I tried to gently tell her that I respect her views but we just couldn't go along with this that and the other. She screamed and hung up the phone. She won't take my kids' calls either. Sad. I used to try to keep up with all of it just so I could know what they were thinking but I stopped. It is too depressing. I am going to send them a written invitation to the Thanksgiving we are having for some people with no place to go and hope they see it in their heart to come and at least help out. Maybe they will speak to us again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saraha Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 I am so sorry. We are definitely not to that point, thank goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 I'll talk to your inlaws if you talk to my parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdalley Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 My MIL forwards every single piece of 'chain' email she gets. Even if I send a link to snopes. It's not just this time of this kind of year either. It's all the time. I quit reading her emails and just delete them unread. If she needs to communicate something important she can call - and does - DH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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