My family always fights. It seems they pick the weakest link, then knock on them. Today, I'm not any better...
So, my aunt just had gastric bypass. For the past week I'm listening to my family treat it like she had open heart surgery. So supportive. Which is good. Great for her. Especially since she ate McDonalds every day for the past ten years and never made an effort to lose weight. Meanwhile they're picking on my Mom. My Mom sucks, she was terrible at times, but she's much better now with medication. Somehow I get involved in the middle. Today, my aunt is bitching about how she's going to do this, or say that, to my Mom. Who really only wants to be left alone. So, I'm listening. And in my head I'm going over all that family support bullshit. I had two surgeries, neither of which they showed up for, oh and by the way, told me to fuck myself while going through. I get raped a couple times. No one was there. I tell my aunt to knock it off. Leave my Mom alone. So, she starts in on me. Says there's a million people walking around in my shoes. I'm so self absorbed. I should shut-up. I'm a stripper with no self value. And, whaah. Whatever that means. So I say the thing I can't take back...
"I had surgery because I have something valid. Not because I couldn't stop eating. Fuck off."
I did get an apology note. But the whole thing just rubbed me the wrong way. It seems so funny to me that pretty much everyone in my family is a bad person. Lies, cheats, steals, smokes crack, is an alcoholic, etc. But, I'm a stripper. So, all the good I've done just sort of goes away.
Do you have sympathy for people like this? I just can't rationalize taking shit off of someone simply because they've eaten themselves into being fat.



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