Also, vdub, you've got amazing strength.
I have never been close to any part of my family, thanks to certain dynamics that led me to rely on my friends for the support I needed, but my roommate is extraordinarily close to her immediate and most of her extended family and so I have a bit of understanding of how hard it can be when you suddenly become the outcast. If her family turned against her she would be absolutely devastated.
Keep your chin up - maybe it would help if you said "It's not that I choose to be an atheist - I can't help not believing what I don't believe - but you've made the choice to be honest with you as family should be extremely difficult now, and that's not fair."
I have never been close to any part of my family, thanks to certain dynamics that led me to rely on my friends for the support I needed, but my roommate is extraordinarily close to her immediate and most of her extended family and so I have a bit of understanding of how hard it can be when you suddenly become the outcast. If her family turned against her she would be absolutely devastated.
Keep your chin up - maybe it would help if you said "It's not that I choose to be an atheist - I can't help not believing what I don't believe - but you've made the choice to be honest with you as family should be extremely difficult now, and that's not fair."
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