Family

[sighyoung]

I have a sister-in-law and a former sister-in-law who hate me, but I'm not sure what I've done to deserve it. I suspect they both have issues with my brother and like to project their anger onto the rest of his family.

[lukethedrifter]

Family is interesting. There's often too much exposure to family (see above for good examples), but the other extreme, not enough. Maybe there's a happy medium somewhere.

My dad hasn't seen my son, who is all of 20 months old, for almost 7 months now - since we went up to see him. My mom has come down to see us more than once, but he didn't feel like joining her, I guess. He's retired. He does whatever he wants. He just isn't interested, I guess. And yet he blew up at me, told me to piss off, when he found out that I had posted a picture of my son on facebook without also emailing the picture to him separately. ("You know I don't have Facebook! I guess the whole world gets to see him, but not his grampa!")

I think my Dad didn't see my daughter until she was nearly a year old. Retired, has money, moved away- I didn't. Came back to STL for his wife's third cousin's sister mother's birthday party. Saw my daughter for the first time then.
Sure it hurt my feelings.