This week has been a difficult and challenging week for me. I had to trust someone, an attorney, who luckily was able to help me get through one challenge. On another situation, an organization I belong to, decided to strip away my trust by changing their bylaws and not informing their members. I found out by reading about it in the Daily Wire. My local branch had changed their by-laws last year, I voted “No,” because it smelled fishy to me. The chapter regent beat around the bush when I declared my concerns to her after the meeting. She “would get back to me on it, after talking to some people higher up.” She never did. I resigned from the organization this past weekend, after reading this article and knowing that it was correct.

My significant other and I had already known that our society was going in a very bad direction and that we might end up getting to a place where we can only trust each other. Since we both have different thoughts politically, we had to work hard to adjust our communication to be respectful of each other. If not, we would be separated by the stupidity of society in the end. Our love and devotion was more important to us.

I just finished reading “Why Emotional Intelligence is in Decline,” through psychologytoday.com, a company that I advertise my business with, and as a result get the magazine delivered to my door. What a poignant article to read at a time when I was wondering about life and who we can trust. Social media is speculated to be the result of this and the fact that people are no longer talking to one another in person. Duh! Rhetorical but naturally we need the study for proof.

I will also point out that when you look at people today, you have no idea if they are a male or female sometimes. It is not as bad as Archie and Edith’s song about “girls were girls and men were men.” No longer about men having long hair – hippies. Now, you have to do a double take “Wait, did it have an Adam’s apple.” Yes, he did. “Didn’t she look like a girl to you?” Yes she did. What the hell is “he” doing in the locker room. What do you mean our women’s organization is going to except men now? We are a genealogical society. Why am I reading about this online and not hearing it from you? Why are you still not answering my questions? After several years of volunteering I get “Sorry to see you go.”

Liberals lost out big time because of the WOKE agenda. They try to pretend they didn’t, but they did. We all know it. They also had a horrible replacement, in the final hour, a woman who had nothing of substance to say. Now, they are pissed about Trump’s agenda – which he laid it out in black and white before he went to the drawing room. Elon Musk said he was going to do what he did. No one lied about anything, they are just so used to lying in politics, they didn’t believe it. Now it is happening. If liberals had not sacrificed what they stood for, to stand up for something so untrustworthy, so anti-women and children, they would be in charge right now. But, they are not. We couldn’t trust them. We couldn’t trust the government. We may have lost everything as a result of the Woke agenda. Was it worth it? Are these trannies proud of themselves? No respect for women or children. No respect for our bodies (we aren’t confused), our sanity, our privacy, our lives, just a narcissistic group of mentally ill people.

The future seems uncertain right now. Everything is happening so quickly, in a matter of weeks, everything has been turned upside down. Again, they said they were going to do this. They did not lie.

What can you do? Do you happen to be in a healthy relationship? Can you trust the people in your household? Can you trust that they are not going to go against you when the knock comes at your door or you get an email or a phone call or some way or another you are held accountable for something you didn’t realize you had done (or didn’t do but are told you were wrong)? Because when social media first came out, children (and still are, along with adults now) were posting all kinds of sensitive and personal information online. They were blasting their families and friends for all the world to see.

Teens in today’s society, I am told, are telling each other “You should just die.” Wow! That is a bit passive/aggressive. Don’t have a conversation, just die. Get rid of yourself – because obviously that is going to answer nothing. It is not going to help the person saying it in anyway shape or form. It will just alleviate what they assume is “their” problem, not the intended victim, who they could care less about.

I have told people, since I returned to Ohio in 2010, that this is a “sweep it under the rug state.” It is because of Midwesterners, that we understand passive/aggressive. I can’t tell you how many times people have been upset with me here – and then said “don’t ever talk to me again.” Upset may seem like a strong word – what are you doing to these people, you may ask? When I say upset, I mean so many things. Maybe I said something that they interpreted in a way they weren’t comfortable with, which is not my fault. How do I know what you will be triggered by – unless you tell me? But, this has happened here. Again, I am writing about not being able to trust people. How can you trust someone who is unwilling to have a conversation with you? They strip you down and then won’t have a tete-a-tete. They are afraid. Everything is a post on social media, there is no intelligent conversation based on open critical thinking. There is now a lower amount of emotional intelligence.

Or, the other way around, you set boundaries with someone and they run for the hills. You tell someone that they did something that you did not like, and what do they do, ghost you. They gossip to others and tell them a completely different story. Suddenly, you are the bad guy, not the one setting boundaries.

It is time now to open the doors to communication with each other. Our sanity and our future depend on this. We have to meet in person and talk about issues, about what is upsetting to us, vent with each other, dialogue, validate one another. If nothing is said, we have no future. If we sit back on our heels and do nothing, we are dead. Someone in charge is very smart and is taking advantage of this right now.