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[-] Triumph@fedia.io 59 points 18 hours ago

Let me guess, their "expert" says to double down.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

and use any leverage you got, emotional or material. (It was both in my case)

No, seriously, I'd love to know what the "expert" said.

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The article itself is boilerplate advice. Basic stuff: really listen, admit your own mistakes, don't get angry. And yes, also No. 3. What's of course more interesting is why adult children choose to cut ties with their FOX-infested parents. And that article is extremely problematic.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 47 points 16 hours ago

In many cases, parent-child estrangements are a cycle — "they'll re-engage, then they'll fall out again," Blake said. "One of the key things from the research is that adult children will reach out and if they see nothing has changed, they'll estrange again."

No, I actually think it's a pretty good article, and comes surprisingly close to outright saying the parents are the problem

[-] omega_x3@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I stopped reading as soon as I saw the double length hyphen which means it is almost definitely AI slop.

[-] twack@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

This isn't as universally true as a lot of people seem to think. I'm not defending this particular article, as I haven't even read it yet. However MS Word has been auto updating a dash to an em dash for years. Where do you think AI got it from in the first place?

It can be a marker for text that is written in places where plain text is preserved. In a written article that most likely started as a word document? Not always the case.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

AI learned that from training data, which means it was used by humans writing this kind of text. At least that was true before AI started feeding on itself.

[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 14 points 13 hours ago

In my experience, even when I've framed it as "something needs to change" to try to be less direct in saying that they need to change, they still just say "correct, you do need to change." Hopefully some people will get it, though.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Lmao that’s the hardest thing is realizing that there’s no magic words that will ever pierce their skull. They keep acting like you speak a foreign language because it’s easier to fake “not getting it” rather than come out and say the truth which is “I don’t value you enough to change my behavior”.

Once I gave up and quit my life got a lot easier.

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

If my in-laws watch this show the expert must be telling people to play the victim card whenever direct communication happens and post passive aggressive memes on Facebook.

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 47 points 18 hours ago

I wouldn’t be shocked if they said to kidnap said adult children and send them to reeducation camps brought to you by PragerU

[-] FedX@quokk.au 9 points 18 hours ago

Even better, it was "hostage negotiation tactics."

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