12.26.05
the calm after the storm
I’ve spent the day in family drama. Damn, we almost made it through one holiday season without a war. But, no, can’t do it.
It started with a loud loud loud argument with my brother. Selfish a**hole is upset that I’m asking him to pay me back some of the money that he owes me. With the death of my father my mother’s income has been cut. Of course, it’s going to fall to me to make sure that everything gets covered.
In two months I pay off my car. Taking care of Mom after that won’t be a financial burden, really. Until then, I need some help.
It’s not like I’ve asked him to contribute to her wellbeing. I’ve just asked him to pay me back some of the money he owes me, which he’d already promised to do anyway.
Perhaps later I will blog some about the content of the argument with baby brother. I’m too upset right now to do that.
Having Linda come after me later about how I treated him, that I didn’t need. I never saw that fight coming at me. I tried to get out of it. Really, I did. But she kept coming at me and I let her have the fight she so obviously wanted.
It got ugly fast.
It ended with my screaming at her, in the parking lot in front of my apartment as she was getting into her truck, that she wasn’t welcome back in my home. And I told her husband that they were not going to get in the way of my relationship with their children. I promised to make their lives hell if they tried.
Not a good day.
stories from an ordinary life » family drama continues said,
January 8, 2006 at 11:58 pm
[...] Two weeks ago I had a yelling match with Linda. One week ago, my siblings and I got together for a family meeting at a local Starbucks. Among the many topics of discussion were the fact that my mother’s financial situation is now precarious (i.e., she doesn’t have any money), that this is my place and not my mother’s, and that I need help. [...]