my brother may very well be the biggest jerk that i know ...
so i wrote my brother an email the other night and told him everything ... all the things that i have been dealing with and all of that and this was the email he sent back ...
Well, not really sure where to go with this. Anyway here it goes. I am not going to compare childhoods, but mine was no "Brady bunch" family. I had a bi-polar father that attempted suicide at least 4 times i can remember, he was in the ER every Christmas for blood sugar in the 700 (most people dead or unconscious). A step mother that treated me worse than Cinderella with a father that never intervened. Mothers second marriage was a disaster to a Vietnam veteran husband that abused like a POW. I attended at least 9 schools that i can remember. I've watched my father get arrested trying to kidnap me from my grandparents house, watched him come home from a bar with his jaw and nose broken in a bar fight. Constantly heard moms side of the family tell me how horrible my father was. Slept at mothers work at times because she couldn't afford child care. Oh, by the way mom sometimes couldn't afford to feed both of us so she would go hungry so i could eat and somehow managed to keep that from me until i was an adult. I can't remember how many countless pets i had to give up because i moved all over every year. Hell, Gordon's childhood was worse than mine, and Becke's was no cake walk, but we all deal and without hurting ourselves or anyone else.
Yes, if you compare your childhood to Katie's than it was horrible considering the Horsemans had the "Brady Bunch family". Through everything i don't blame anything on mom or my dad. Shit happens and they did the best they could at the time. Am i distant and anti-social a lot of the time? Yes. Is that because of my childhood? More than likely it was, but i deal with it. Why do you think i don't come home very often. I moved away to do my own thing and that's final. It doesn't mean i don't care about anyone i just like to be left alone with the family i started. That really isn't right because Andrew and Jon need to see their family, and Becke helps me with that. You know every time i think about how crappy my childhood may have been, think about the children that are sleeping in the streets with know one to care for them. The kids that have no idea when or where their next meal will come from. Try it, it works and it works for a reason. Ours childhoods could have been worse and there are children out there that are dealing with worse this very minute. If that doesn't break your heart and take the focus off of you than i don't know what will, and maybe use the energy used thinking about yourself and make it positive energy to volunteer in a homeless shelter or something that might make someones life a little better.
I have not been this great brother to you, Jennifer, or Nick and i know that, but it is just easier that way for me. I mean think about it, i forget birthdays, christmas, and everything. It's not on purpose, it's just easier that way.
If counseling helps you great, but i never thought they are worth a shit. All they do is sympathize and it really doesn't solve anything. Just focus the energy wasted on talking and do something meaningful. I.e. homeless shelter, more school, job, something. That is my opinion, no one else's, just mine. Take it with a grain of salt. Life is too short to feel sorry for myself all the time. Hell, i have so much housework and getting the boys ready for school tomorrow i need to get started or i will have another night with minimal sleep.
Andy
JERK! ... right now i really would just like to call him and tell him that he is a selfish jerk and i don't care to ever talk to him again
seriously though ... who does that ... this is the very reason that i leave things alone and don't let people in ... when i do i get burned. i just wanted him to care and love me but he doesn't ... none of my family does
i hate this ... i hate myself... i hate my family i just want to cut ... thats all i want to do and runaway forever. i dont want to feel like this ... i feel like i have been stabbed in the heart by my brother
i thought that i felt alone before ... oh no this is on a completely different level .... he is such a jerk ... i don't even understand how someone could do that
i can't even write anymore i am so hurt and angry
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