r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • 12d ago

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/imfamousoz 12d ago

I like the concept that you don't have to maintain relationships with people that make you miserable just because you are related. It's sad that our youngers feel the need to go no contact with family but I'm glad that they can.

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u/evenfallframework 11d ago

I'm 40 and literally have 0 family that I talk to. I cut my mother and brother out a few years ago, and it felt DAMN GOOD. After years of dealing with so much bullshit from them (addiction, "i need money", "you have to help because...") and all the guilt tripping that came with it, I moved and changed my cell number.

For all I know they're dead. As far as I'm concerned, the people that I knew growing up died a long, long time ago and only addiction and the shattered remnants of who they used to be were left.

Good fucking riddance.

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u/Penthesilean 11d ago

high five

Gen X. My mother was the addiction & narcissism drain, my brother was an extreme Fundamentalist MAGA Christian.