Some parents can’t help but turn their love into an icy slope, and one woman is finding herself stuck in a downhill race she never signed up for. After making the bold decision to leave a marriage that wasn’t working, she thought her parents might throw her a lifeline or at least a kind word. Instead, they strapped on their helmets, tightened their bindings, and went full-speed into the freezing territory of disapproval.  

Her ex-husband, in their eyes, is the perfect skier: graceful, polished, and rich enough to hit all the black diamond runs without breaking a sweat. She, on the other hand, is apparently the clumsy amateur tumbling down the bunny hill, unworthy of a lift pass to their love and support. In this family, staying unhappy in a picture-perfect marriage is the only way to avoid wiping out on the frosted slopes of their judgment.