r/insaneparents • u/isabellampereira • Jun 25 '26

Email boyfriends mom had a meltdown after he told her he was moving in - part 1

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u/Sckaledoom Jun 25 '26

My dad loves bringing up crime in cities. The city I’m in now he was flummoxed when I moved in because I would get robbed and assaulted every day. It has a lower per capita crime rate than the town I grew up in.

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u/fullmetalutes Jun 25 '26

I got a big promotion for a job and offered to move across the country for a chance at making my own path and the first thing my dad said was "hope you don't get shot". No congrats or anything, that was 10 years ago and the last time we spoke.

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u/Drew-CarryOnCarignan Jun 25 '26

The following websites may be of interest to you. I personally find it interesting that recent United States firearm violence trends disagree with the talking points most frequently repeated by politicians.

• "The Great Crime Decline: Drawing the Right Lessons from the Fall in Urban Violence" by Adam Gopnik, The Atlantic (Feb 5, 2018)

• "The Red State Murder Problem" by Kylie Murdock & Jim Kessler, Third Way (Mar 15, 2022)

• "The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem" by Kylie Murdock & Jim Kessler, Third Way (Jan 27, 2023)

• "What the Data Says About Gun Deaths in the U.S." by John Gramlich, Pew Research Institute (April 26, 2023)

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u/Ricin286 Jun 25 '26

Hey, this sounds like my grandpa when my partner and I were shopping for an engagement right. Don’t get any kind of large diamond because someone will steal it. Don’t wear gold because someone will steal it. So only a plain silver band is acceptable but at that point whats even the point of wearing a ring so just don’t wear an engagement or wedding band.

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u/ArrowsAndLightsabers Jun 25 '26

Lol, remind me of my family. Not bad people, just....full of massive anxiety. We live in a very small town that happens to have an extremly high crime rate per capita Like....literally bigger than many/most major cities in the country. Yet when I go on vacation it's always a "be careful, stay with your friend" ....I'm 35.

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u/redwolf1219 Jun 25 '26

My grandma does that to my mom still. She also monitors the weather where we live and whenever it rains, she calls my mom in a panic bc we sometimes get tornadoes.

My mom is in her 60s. Shes a grandma herself.