A woman named Shannon Hill is feeling deep sadness and heartbreak because her son has stopped speaking to her since the 2024 presidential election. Shannon voted for Donald Trump, while her son, who is 36 years old and holds more liberal or progressive views, supported a different candidate—possibly Kamala Harris. Their political differences have caused such a serious rift that he has completely cut off communication, not just with Shannon but also with her husband, his father.
Shannon talked about this on social media, posting her thoughts on X, formerly known as Twitter. She explained that even though she still reaches out to her son—sending him birthday gifts and leaving voicemails—she doesn’t expect to hear back. It’s not that she’s asking him to change what he believes. In fact, she says she fully accepts that they don’t see eye to eye politically.
What hurts her most is that her son has decided those differences are enough to walk away from their relationship. She says she misses him terribly and thinks he doesn’t understand how much pain his silence is causing. In her post, she wrote that her heart is constantly aching and that she hopes one day her son will come back into her life and realize the damage that’s been done—not just to their connection, but to the whole family.
After she shared her story, other parents who supported Trump began to respond with their own stories of strained or broken relationships with their adult children. One mother said her 33-year-old son stopped talking to her and her husband on January 21st and hasn’t reached out since not for her birthday, not for Mother’s Day, nothing. She said they just keep going on with their lives, trying to cope. A father commented that his daughter, who he believes became too influenced by college culture, has been out of contact with him for eight years. Though he didn’t go into detail, he implied that her political beliefs shifted in a way that made her cut ties.
Other commenters tried to offer comfort to Shannon, saying that adult children like her son may later regret turning away from their parents. One woman said that if a 36-year-old man is old enough to form strong political opinions, then he’s also old enough to understand that family relationships shouldn’t be thrown away over disagreements. She warned that if something tragic happens before they make amends, it will be a heavy burden for him to carry.
Shannon’s post opened the floodgates for many other Trump-supporting parents who feel like they’ve lost their children not because of any harm they caused, but because they voted differently. Many said they aren’t angry, just hurt. They aren’t trying to force political conversations or change their kids’ minds—they just want to be parents again, to hear their children’s voices, to be part of their lives. What they want most is for politics to stop being something that divides families so deeply.
These stories show how, for some families, political divisions have become more than just disagreements. They’ve become emotional walls that are difficult to break through. The pain goes beyond arguing about policy—it becomes a loss, like grieving someone who is still alive but has chosen to disappear from your life. And for many of these parents, that silence is harder to live with than the political differences that caused it.
