Gabriel Mizrahi

Boo!

Over time, these things added up and both my husband and I began to feel like we were more of an afterthought than part of the core family unit.

Then, in 2020, during the early COVID period, everything came to a head.

My husband has a heart condition, so we were extremely cautious and limiting contact, while the rest of the family was still regularly gathering.

Around that time, there was also tension after I made a poorly worded comment to a sister-in-law about her involvement in beauty pageants, which I personally find demeaning to women.

I later apologized and tried to clarify that I simply didn't understand that world, not that I meant to insult her.

That Thanksgiving, my husband and I were excluded from the family gathering at one of my brother's homes.

Oof.

Ouch.

Yikes.

Interesting fight, that is.

It depends how much you love beauty pageants, I guess.

Maybe the sister-in-law is really passionate about them.

So what tells me beauty pageants are more loaded for this family for some reason?

You sweet, sweet summer podcaster.

Yeah.

You think science is going to unite people in this day and age?

I don't know.

It does make me wonder if there's more going on here just in terms of like their personalities and the things that they care about and get upset about.

But safe to say, she and her family are on different pages, for sure.