I hope you’ll stay. . .it is really hard, I know, just ‘reading’ posts (even with smilies, or couched in sweet phrases) to get the kind of connection one gets with face-to-face encounters where just seeing a smile along with words, or having somebody reach out to physically touch you gently, can cause the words to come across with a much more different feeling.
I know it’s so easy to get hurt by posts which seem to be not just disagreeing (which is hard enough to deal with when it’s disagreeing with something important to you, or with something you hold as true), but really, personally, HATEFUL, and ‘deliberately’, it seems, aimed at making you feel lower than pond scum just for thinking something, let alone saying it. Often though not always the person making the hateful post truly didn’t see how it would affect the other person, and probably would not have said anything at all, or would have tried to say it in a nicer way, if he or she had known. Sometimes knowing that something that really ‘hurt’ most probably was not meant to hurt, and would be regretted for its hurt, can help. . .a little. I hope it helps you. And I wish for God’s peace for you and all your family.