So I love and adore my father, but since his remarriage and retirement, he is becoming a person I have less and less in common with. He resides in an insular, Fox News watching, Christian Identity-based community in West Virginia. The toxins of his environment seem to be reshaping his identity and his values in ways I find frustrating and sad.
The person I always thought of as reasonable, is now reactionary. I am having a hard time dealing with this. He is not going to leave his new home. I don't want or expect him to. He is loved and supported there. I just wish the values he had imparted on his family of origin were also loved and supported. It is like the infrastructure that he once helped to build, is being forgotten and left to decay. His reality no longer resembles my own.
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