Loud message on not speaking

The column “Qiubbles, Quarrels, and Suddenly They Aren’t Speaking” (April 17) was very interesting and something we all could identify with -- who doesn’t know families with members not speaking to one another?

But when Mimi Avins wrote about the New Jersey woman who welcomed her son’s Sri Lankan bride but would not welcome a “right-wing Republican,” I fumed. Not because of my politics, but because the Los Angeles Times has an obsession with inserting politics wherever possible. Avins, a skilled writer, could easily have said “a political bent not in agreement with ours” or any number of phrases.

Barb Hawley

Via e-mail

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I just had to stop everything I had planned to do this morning to send you an e-mail to let you know how much Avins’ article meant to me. The Pasadena woman (“I know we grew up in the same house ... “) could have been me. All of my life it is as if I have had a biological brother, but I don’t really have a brother.

It is only recently that I realize just how dysfunctional my family was while I was growing up. In the community I grew up in and even among ourselves we were thought of as role models. It was a great article and I would find other articles on similar topics helpful. It appears I am not alone with this sibling situation.

M. Worthy

Park City, Utah