”I am sorry about the holidays, but I cannot bite my tongue like I did with Hillary,” she said. ”I don’t want to disrespect your parents or your brother and his family in their home, or our home, so it’s best this way. No scenes. You can go see them. Seriously – I will not be in a room of 15 people who voted for Trump.”
For many, this might seem extreme.
”I will not unwrap gifts given to me by people who voted for a party that has talked about building internment camps and mass deportation,” she wrote. She added that she ”will not pass the turkey” to those who, in her view, supported taking away women’s reproductive rights or harming vulnerable communities.
“I know he is a good man..”
Andrea was surprised that her husband didn’t argued about the change in holiday plans. Normally, it would have been a major point of contention given how close he was to his family.
Somewhere inside, he seemed to understand what the election outcome meant to her. She recognized his empathy and felt grateful for it. She held onto that sense of understanding like a life raft as she tried to figure out how they would move forward with their marriage.
“I know he is a good man and he would do anything for a family member or friend, which makes what he has done even more infuriating and even more painful,” she wrote.
Despite all the intense emotions and Andrea’s firm decisions, her husband didn’t argue with her choice or remove the post.
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