This is a beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing it. Your son is fortunate to have someone ready to greet him and love him when he decides he doesn’t want to play with trains anymore.
This brilliant essay reawakened my own hurt over my son who has left us forever for the trans cult.
I have avoided reliving this horror for a little while. It is a good thing to confront the pain again. It makes me strong enough to re-enter my emotional hibernation for another period.
Thank you, this is so beautifully written, and completely describes our life, including the 2 brothers. We’re less than a year into this nightmare and our brilliant, broken son continues to hang on stubbornly to lies. I pray for all parents and children living in this alternate life.
The friends… all getting married, jobs, having their best life. No friends left for my kid. The only difference between this and us is they all encouraged it and praised it. Now they are gone. So so sad for our devastated kids
They are ‘half’ there. They’ve moved on, the friends but they are over the trend. Oh to look them in the eye & cast blame…these ‘friends’ family & teachers that led them on in the first place. It’s so hard not to be bitter. And we watch from afar with our insurmountable grief while they persist in the fantasy by their own free will.
Keep on hoping and praying! I believe Love will win, but that means true love which tells the truth and protects people and doesn’t just dumbly agree that their train is working.
This is such a perfect analogy. Your introduction about walking from the nightmare, realizing that it’s not a nightmare, resonated deeply with me. It’s like being retraumatized again each morning. I feel your pain.
There is life after trains—for you and your son. I hope that he finds his way there. Sounds like he knows you’ll be available to meet him when that time comes. ❤️
Sometimes I force myself to open and read another poignant, terrifyingly real and painful post. I can see all of you, and I can feel all of your hearts. It hurts so bad. And I know your son hurts-deep deep pain. I wish somehow we could go back and stop the lies. Stop the constant lies and perfect pamphlets our sons were sold. Holding your family close; there are so many of us in this very same nightmarish boat. But we have to hold on to hope and to God's goodness. He loves them even more than we do. Keep hoping, my friend.
Thank you for your prayers. I, too, pray almost daily for all of the families caught in this nightmare. You are right on holding on to God's goodness. To me, this is a spiritual battle over the lives of our children.
I’m crying. I am afraid this is my son. I am crying because it is yours. I try hard not to hate the liars , but I can and do hate the lies and the actions of the doctors and clinics.
It is my opinion that it is not a coincidence the sons they take from us are the brightest, most brilliant, and talented of kids - trying to take away the future of an entire generation of young men (and women). Is it bad to hate evil?
"O you who love the Lord, hate evil!" – Psalm 97:10 –
"The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate." – Proverbs 8:13 –
"Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate." – Amos 5:15 –
"Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good." – Romans 12:9 –
Many people claim to have some other morality. A standard that does not apply to everyone. If they stumble into PITT, they face an agonizing re-examination when their feelings and experiences reject their philosophical opinions.
We only get to hate evil IF we're using God's definitions.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” – Isaiah 5:20 –
I have been doing a study on Evil. The Bible translation I use has 510 references...I also study secular sources and post on my Facebook page daily...this ideology is built upon lies! Some of us know who the father of lies is...he is the source of evil
My son is a software engineer as well but I learned that he was laid off from his job and now having trouble getting another job. He doesn’t speak to us. I really worry about him.
This is a beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing it. Your son is fortunate to have someone ready to greet him and love him when he decides he doesn’t want to play with trains anymore.
This brilliant essay reawakened my own hurt over my son who has left us forever for the trans cult.
I have avoided reliving this horror for a little while. It is a good thing to confront the pain again. It makes me strong enough to re-enter my emotional hibernation for another period.
This is the cycle of a firmly abandoned parent.
Thank you, this is so beautifully written, and completely describes our life, including the 2 brothers. We’re less than a year into this nightmare and our brilliant, broken son continues to hang on stubbornly to lies. I pray for all parents and children living in this alternate life.
Whoa- so intimately and eloquently communicated- I pray for all our sons and daughters to see the good gift of their God given gender.
Heartbreaking. I pray for you all. May this nightmare end soon.🙏🙏🙏
The friends… all getting married, jobs, having their best life. No friends left for my kid. The only difference between this and us is they all encouraged it and praised it. Now they are gone. So so sad for our devastated kids
They are ‘half’ there. They’ve moved on, the friends but they are over the trend. Oh to look them in the eye & cast blame…these ‘friends’ family & teachers that led them on in the first place. It’s so hard not to be bitter. And we watch from afar with our insurmountable grief while they persist in the fantasy by their own free will.
Keep on hoping and praying! I believe Love will win, but that means true love which tells the truth and protects people and doesn’t just dumbly agree that their train is working.
This is such a perfect analogy. Your introduction about walking from the nightmare, realizing that it’s not a nightmare, resonated deeply with me. It’s like being retraumatized again each morning. I feel your pain.
There is life after trains—for you and your son. I hope that he finds his way there. Sounds like he knows you’ll be available to meet him when that time comes. ❤️
Perfect heartwrenching analogy! Exactly what our oldest has done...We also wait and pray as we have been cut off...🙏
Fantastic analogy!
Wow! That was so well written! I just wish our son could read this and wake up to reality!💔🙏🙏
If only they could see what we see.
It’s so hard to watch.
Beautifully written.
Painfully real.
“…mentally you are the exact age of your trauma….”
Exactly. Beautiful writing.
Sometimes I force myself to open and read another poignant, terrifyingly real and painful post. I can see all of you, and I can feel all of your hearts. It hurts so bad. And I know your son hurts-deep deep pain. I wish somehow we could go back and stop the lies. Stop the constant lies and perfect pamphlets our sons were sold. Holding your family close; there are so many of us in this very same nightmarish boat. But we have to hold on to hope and to God's goodness. He loves them even more than we do. Keep hoping, my friend.
Thank you for your prayers. I, too, pray almost daily for all of the families caught in this nightmare. You are right on holding on to God's goodness. To me, this is a spiritual battle over the lives of our children.
Brilliantly written and heart-breaking.
I’m crying. I am afraid this is my son. I am crying because it is yours. I try hard not to hate the liars , but I can and do hate the lies and the actions of the doctors and clinics.
It is my opinion that it is not a coincidence the sons they take from us are the brightest, most brilliant, and talented of kids - trying to take away the future of an entire generation of young men (and women). Is it bad to hate evil?
"...Is it bad to hate evil?" @Christa
Our Creator is good. He is my standard. So . . .
"O you who love the Lord, hate evil!" – Psalm 97:10 –
"The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate." – Proverbs 8:13 –
"Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate." – Amos 5:15 –
"Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good." – Romans 12:9 –
Many people claim to have some other morality. A standard that does not apply to everyone. If they stumble into PITT, they face an agonizing re-examination when their feelings and experiences reject their philosophical opinions.
We only get to hate evil IF we're using God's definitions.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” – Isaiah 5:20 –
I have been doing a study on Evil. The Bible translation I use has 510 references...I also study secular sources and post on my Facebook page daily...this ideology is built upon lies! Some of us know who the father of lies is...he is the source of evil
My son is a Software Engineer...
My son is an electrical engineer - even got his PE. He just started a new job but isn't "out" yet.
My son studied to be an engineer
My son is a software engineer as well but I learned that he was laid off from his job and now having trouble getting another job. He doesn’t speak to us. I really worry about him.
I make no attempts to not hate the liars. I hate them with all my heart and my soul. I've never felt such hate before.