Edit: Stand Down, the event has ended, and we’ve returned to DEFCON 4. Your support was felt in spirit, if not in the flesh, and your service is appreciated.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26499767
There is of course a “no politics” rule, which means they get to “accidentally” drop little comments then titter in apology, but no one gets to reply.
And the last thing I’m going to do is make a scene at my wife’s family’s house with my wife’s family on my wife’s birthday.
So here I sit, stewing, and I don’t even have access to anything intoxicating.
Please send a few hours of amnesia and something cold to drink. And earplugs? How about a national emergency requiring us to leave the premises?
I have zero of that family anymore. It was literally how they made my partner feel that made me snap and just be done with them all. My partner is more important to me than their abuse and disrespect. It was merely nostalgia for some kind of Stockholm Syndrome anyways. I don’t need it, and at some point if I hadn’t done something, it’d be my disrespect to my partner to not deal with that family of mine.
There’s potentially a conversation that you both deserve better.