Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.

You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.

Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.

There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.