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I do. Every day. I just have no idea how to get around it. I’ve tried to avoid her without looking like I was, stopping/leaving the conversation, just listening, and trying to explain that my differences of opinion don’t mean I don’t respect her (to that she’s just mention that I’m trying to argue again.) so I have no idea what else I should try. Thank you so much for taking the time to read and then comfort me though.

I’ve talked with my dad about this before but my grandma pisses me off sometimes. I don’t yell however I do tend to make my opinions known (at least to people I’m close to). Anyway we get into these disagreements about stuff and she always gets mad at me afterwards claiming to my grandpa that “I hate her”. My grandpa got mad at me too saying that I’m making her feel bad so if I notice she’s starting to get heated I should leave. I’ve tried that but every time I try to tell her I want to end the conversation or I say I think I should leave before we get heated she says okay but then immediately resumes the conversation. Staying silent during these rants don’t help either because then she’ll ask why I’m not talking and say she wants my opinion. An example would be when she started talking to me about how now a days it’s a war with men vs. women and asked about my thoughts on it. I said in my opinion it’s just bad people against good people. And she got mad at me and said she was right and “how could you think that when you’re a woman” and I said that there are good men and there are bad men just the same with good women and bad women. Then I asked if she just meant good women against bad men and she said no just then as a whole and got mad I suggested otherwise. Claiming that I found joy in arguing with her and that I just don’t respect her. Then it turned into a generation thing about how people my age have abandoned manners and respect for elders.(Note it’s not that every man she’s known has been bad to her. Her favorite grandchild is a boy and she has a good relationship with most men in the family. Actually I’d say most of her rocky relationships come from the women) I told her that it wasn’t my intention to disrespect her and was about to apologize but then she interrupted me and said that she knew I wouldn’t take responsibility for hurting her. (she interrupts a lot sometimes she’ll even go to totally unrelated topics. My uncle one time mentioned it and said he was concerned because he thought it was a memory problem to which she stated it wasn’t and that she just loses interest in what others have to say and zones out.) I tried to be excused from the conversation but she kept on bringing back the topic. Talking about how people like me who disrespected elders are why people like the us president is in power. Another example was when she was talking about politics (I told her I don’t like talking to her about politics) and I sat there and listened because I had differing opinions but just decided to stay quiet so I could leave. Then while I was washing the dishes and she told me that I was super quiet and it gave her the impression that I didn’t like the topic and I admitted that I didn’t to which she started yelling at me telling me that it was wrong that I wouldn’t fight. To which I asked what she wanted me to do. And she said anything’s and proceeded to talk about how she comments on social media to which I said I don’t like fighting on the internet and I don’t like fighting in general. That my way of helping would be to offer help and not protest or make comments online. And she got upset and she said I should at least be more involved in politics and I said I listen to stuff about it I just don’t like it consuming my life. To which she said I was ignorant and naive and just enjoyed sticking my head in the sand. I said that I just don’t talk about it often so I don’t get into arguments. I don’t see anything wrong with knowing your stuff but she brings it into everything and thinks that everyone needs to be the same otherwise they aren’t doing enough. Every time someone is being rude she’ll say they are just like “___” (some political figure that’s bad) once she’s talked to everyone who is nearby she’ll call my cousin who is physically and mentally disabled (he only talks about a couple subjects that he repeats several times a day that he forgets he talked about plus agreeing with what people talk about). And since I’m not that obsessed with what’s going on apparently I’m the problem. After that she proceeded to say I was disrespecting her again and that I only and saying that I have a different opinion because I want to disagree with her. I told her in my opinion I think it would be disrespectful if I lied and pretended to agree with her. And she said no that would just mean I’m weak. After that I just stayed quite and let her rant to me for about 7 more minutes about my generation lack of morals and respect then I excused myself by saying I need to make more Christmas presents then she laughed as if the whole conversation didn’t happen.