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  • Alamutjones
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    1 year ago

    Stepmother’s birthday. Two weeks.

    The last commentary I had from her was that I was “dead to her” and bound to lose my job if I didn’t learn to accept help when offered, so I suspect she’s still too angry to want to see me…

    And in thirty years I’ve never heard her apologise to me for anything.

    • Thornburywitch
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      1 year ago

      Eeek. Does not sound promising at all. Well, if she doesn’t want to see you, she doesn’t have to I think. And her commentary on your employment prospects does not sound at all realistic. Maybe make plans for that weekend so you can claim a previous engagement. I suspect, however, that it will all blow over by then.

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      1 year ago

      I want to say you’re made of tougher stuff than me for putting up with such immature drama, but also, I very quietly want to add there is an element of the longer you put up with it the longer it’ll go on for… Although I acknowledge it’s much harder when there are disabilities involved, I think you know deep inside you don’t need your parents nearly as much as they think they are needed (and can therefore control you). I feel like you give them far too much leeway sometimes…

      • Alamutjones
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        1 year ago

        I don’t need them as much as they think, but…I do also love them, still. At their best, they are better than this.