Re: The cranky thread
I really need to stop being honest around my mother, but dammit, I am sick to f**king death of having to put up a stupid, banal facade every time I talk to her.
My brother spent years treating me like s**t, mostly mental abuse with a few bouts of physical. I've forgiven him to the degree that I am no longer actively wishing him ill. I can treat him civilly. After my mother passes on, and we wind up sharing a bunch of property, I will be civil, I will be fair. If I have to be in his presence, I will be calm, and I will be cordial.
Or, I will just sell my half of the stuff to anybody who will take it, and wash my hands of him and the rest of my family once and for all.
But he and I will never, EVER, be friends. And I'm not joining his online game guilds, because I have no desire to put him in a position where he can boss me around again. I'm not interested in being in a position where he can boss me around again.