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I had a great relationship with them until 2017, when my military career was permanently derailed when some spiteful people, jealous that I had been picked up to advance in astronaut selection screening, decided to make up a story that I was at Charlottesville for that whole fiasco (in the military, due process doesn't exist; if people want to fuck you over, it is done...without question). See, my folks believe that those in the military are metaphysical superheroes who could do no wrong, complete with capes, so when the command went about harrassing them for a statement during their investigation, they believed every word of their bullshit story over that of their own son. The fabricated charges were so trumped up that SJA prosecutors were pursuing incarceration, followed by a dishonorable discharge. When I was cleared, they were still completely convinced that I was guilty, and merely 'figured out a way to slime out of it'. (Fun Fact- at the Article 32 hearing, the conspirators all ultimately admitted to making the whole thing up, but to this day, not a one has ever been held to account) For a year after that disgraceful charade, they refused to answer my calls, emails or texts, but we eventually started to reconcile. In 2021, they turned again when I introduced them to the woman who would become my wife. Programmed with mass-media 'Russia bad' talking points, they openly disrespected both her and her family, stating to her that 'commies weren't welcome in their home'. They refused to attend the wedding despite accepting the invitation, but sent an email the day of saying that my 'choice of wife has estroyed the family bloodline'. The fucked up part of that hypocracy was that my brother told me a few years back that our parents confided in him that they 'would have been far more accepting of the marriage had it been to a black woman...or another man...than to a woman of Russian descent'. Things started to thaw again after our son was born and after my business was featured in an aerospace trade publication. Maybe they just like status; I don't know, but what I do know is that no matter how successful my father hears of my family and I being, he is still skeptical of my decision to go into business and loves to try reminding me 'how much better I had it at Boeing' during those early post military career days. He always seems to forget how much I told him I hated working at the place. Maybe it's simple jealousy- that I found success where they didn't. I guess my parents always lecturing me in my youth about how they 'wanted me to be more successful than them' was just lip service. I'd say our relationship is merely cordial nowadays; my wife & I feel as if we are merely being tolerated by them and nothing more. It sucks, because I do love them as a son should, and that never once did I ever disrespect them. What they refuse to grasp is the simple truth of what those corrupt fucks did to me back in '17 and that of current economic, political & cultural reality....like other stereotypical boomers, neither do they seem to accept that I am very successful & happy in my life. It's really unfortunate.