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a day ago
vent one sec, it's equal parts funny and obnoxious
So yesterday was my cousin's birthday--the cousin whom we babysat while I was in college cos his mom was in prison for like 5 years; sheer misery--and we've always gotten him more stuff than his family has in the past. Every birthday/Christmas/etc they just do nothing and we've basically raised him.
With that in mind, this was the same year I lost my grandpa to cancer; been busy renovating the property and working, and now we're getting my grandma back and forth to places because of her AFib and GERD. Basically it's a lot. Well we accidentally forgot his birthday for the first time in 17 years and his dad has the fattest, floppiest, titanium testicles to call us up at 9pm last night to tell us he felt bad cos we didn't wish him a happy birthday.
I should mention I've not been wished a happy birthday (or acknowledged at all) by them on any of my birthdays in a lifetime. So what happened? They guilt trip my grandma, who calls me and forwards the guilt and I end up driving to a fucking dollar store at almost 9:30 at night to buy a goddamn birthday card for him lmao. He's the SAME one who I got guilted into giving a truck that i paid $7K for--you'd think that'd be enough of a birthday present early. I was vulnerable cos it was LITERALLY A WEEK AFTER MY PA DIED LMAO.
It probly seems harmless on a surface level but these people just come around when they want money, and my family has always enabled them--and so have I, because if I refuse, my immediate family will always say "if you're not gonna do it for them, do it for us." Checkmate, I'm an idiot.
To top off the cum sundae, birthday boy came over to get his card and talk about how he uses ChatGBT to write his essays for him in school because he doesn't have time for all that (he's too busy successfully training in powerlifting for a competition because he's better than all of us lmao).
I dunno, it seems like we're all surrounded by black holes that take and take and take. There's way more I'm not even sharing--this is somehow just the tip of the iceberg and it's causing me to lose sleep dealing with these cocksuckers.
So yesterday was my cousin's birthday--the cousin whom we babysat while I was in college cos his mom was in prison for like 5 years; sheer misery--and we've always gotten him more stuff than his family has in the past. Every birthday/Christmas/etc they just do nothing and we've basically raised him.
With that in mind, this was the same year I lost my grandpa to cancer; been busy renovating the property and working, and now we're getting my grandma back and forth to places because of her AFib and GERD. Basically it's a lot. Well we accidentally forgot his birthday for the first time in 17 years and his dad has the fattest, floppiest, titanium testicles to call us up at 9pm last night to tell us he felt bad cos we didn't wish him a happy birthday.
I should mention I've not been wished a happy birthday (or acknowledged at all) by them on any of my birthdays in a lifetime. So what happened? They guilt trip my grandma, who calls me and forwards the guilt and I end up driving to a fucking dollar store at almost 9:30 at night to buy a goddamn birthday card for him lmao. He's the SAME one who I got guilted into giving a truck that i paid $7K for--you'd think that'd be enough of a birthday present early. I was vulnerable cos it was LITERALLY A WEEK AFTER MY PA DIED LMAO.
It probly seems harmless on a surface level but these people just come around when they want money, and my family has always enabled them--and so have I, because if I refuse, my immediate family will always say "if you're not gonna do it for them, do it for us." Checkmate, I'm an idiot.
To top off the cum sundae, birthday boy came over to get his card and talk about how he uses ChatGBT to write his essays for him in school because he doesn't have time for all that (he's too busy successfully training in powerlifting for a competition because he's better than all of us lmao).
I dunno, it seems like we're all surrounded by black holes that take and take and take. There's way more I'm not even sharing--this is somehow just the tip of the iceberg and it's causing me to lose sleep dealing with these cocksuckers.
also, afib and GERD?
yo, I stg you have sleep apnea, I have both GERD and afib, turns out it's likely do to my recently discovered sleep apnea I seem to have had for years, left untreated it will fuck up your whole body, getting proper treatment for sleep apnea will make you feel whole again
Try some glib lines like, "oh, I forgot it this year, I'll make it up and forget it twice next year."
>:[
you are a better man than i, But anything is better than those people ;-;
i get what you're saying tho, i'm kind of a bad person for enabling bad behavior.
You're being exploited by them, not 'enabling' them. They've conditioned you to jump when they ring the bell. Well, them and all of society's "Family First yada yada" stuff.
I wish you the best in at least partially being able to separate yourself from their behavior :'(
i'll try tho, thanks. been trying--been doing a LOT better with saying no but you know how enablers can be especially when they know you care about them, so you just become an enabler too.
That’s the realist side of me talking.
i drove back 2 states the next morning lmao