Did she call you turd?
Posted on 06/17/2013 7:14:17 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
I've had about ENOUGH about the bullies at school. Taught my kids to FIGHT as long as they don't start it. But they've really 'jumped the shark' on this one. I guess we can expect 'gov intervention' on this? Seriously?
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[[but I’m grateful now. I had the best brother in the world. May God rest his good soul.]]
sorry to hear he’s gone- sounded liek a god brother
I think some may have experienced extremes, here, as I have with a sibling. Abuse...mother who was co-dependent and excused his behavior, awarded him the fam business....only for him to rob us blind and go bankrupt....leaving us BROKE after living an extravagant lifestyle.
HOWEVER.........
What I DON’T agree with is the government becoming involved. They would perceive innocent banter to absolute abuse. It’s just ANOTHER way for them to get their foot in the door.
Justified abuse is one thing. But look at how they are pushing the envelope It’s always OTT.
And that’s it in a nutshell. The government can not tell the difference between a gun and a pop tart...so they want to psychoanalyze sibling relationships?
Hell, we even have some on here who think a normal sibling relationship is destined for the psychiatric couch...
Did she call you turd?
You are making up a very, very strange story about me and my family, based on no data whatsoever. A complete projection. How Dem of you.
What you described as normal is not, in my experience. I have seen that kind of behavior in families, and I find it aberrant and unpleasant. Keep on with your “didn’t everyone” if it makes you feel better.
I am the youngest of 8 children. My Mom worked, while my dad worked on my sisters. I was too young to know what was going on at the time though, but God eventually intervened and my father went to prison for incest when I was 7.
Other than what they went through, my childhood was one of being ruled by 4 older sister who beat it into me that women are victims and I was to treat them like ladies. All the while my 3 oldest brothers beat it into me that I will either learn to fight or be beat down by the world.
I dropped out at 15, joined the traveling carnival at 16, and the army at 17 and turned my back on my family. I have been home three times since I left in “72”. It took many years to learn to love them again. Even to this day I am estranged from them, and I am considered the weird black sheep of the family. The wacko right wing Christian conservative nut.
Somewhere along the way I met Christ, and he taught me that not all men are evil, and not all women are victims. I learned to discern between the two, and how to love those I had grown to hate.
Today I pray for them everyday, but still have little to do with them. My oldest sister was murdered, my oldest brother became a drunk on skid-row and died of stomach and liver cancer. I have another sister, whom I actually talk to on the phone from time to time who is a devout Catholic, and a teacher in San Diego. I have a brother who is a devout Socialist who loves Obama, and another brother who thinks he is god’s gift to women, even though he is married with two adult boys, and two sister whop live in Arizona I have not spoken to in 18 years.
Both my parents have since died. My mom is in heaven, and only god knows if my father made it, but considering he denied raping my sisters for all those years, I seriously doubt it. However, even the thief on the cross made it in by the skin of his teeth.
Childhood problems can last a lifetime sometimes.
However as bad as things were for me in my childhood, there are millions of children being raised in decent homes. That being said, if I had my choice of who should control my childhood, I think I would take my chance with flawed parents over a flawed government any day of the week.
sounds like what he did to you wasn’t sibling rough-housing, not at all.
I have made up no strange story about your family. Keep projecting and judging by your limited experience, if it makes you feel better. What are you, some psych major at a junior college or something?
BTW, if you don’t want to be judged, then don’t indulge in judgement yourself. You don’t know me, you don’t know my brother, and I find your analysis elitist and...WRONG. Because you are WRONG.
see a shrink, lose your 2a. this is how they will disarm your kids.
Sadism?
Violence?
Whoooooooooooooooooooo boy. I won’t tell ANY stories about we all did to one another as kids. And, other than the oldest who’s now a flaming liberal...we DO get along VERY well as adults!
Sadism???
Your brother sounds a lot like mine.
I was the youngest of 4, a surprise baby. My sister was 8 years older and my brother 10 years older...every once in a while one of them would yell, lets get her...I’d take off and run to dads bedroom where he would be reading a book...Dad joined in and my sister use to make it to the bathroom and lock the door laughing, but brother got really ticked off one night when dad got out his handcuffs and cuffed him to the foot board of dads bed...they then spent about 1/2 hour either in the bathroom or handcuffed to the bed, dad went back to reading and I went back to listening to the radio. (no tv’s yet) Fun all around....
Please stop lying. You cited specific examples and incidents of unpleasant behavior in your childhood that you then claimed were normal. I disagreed with your assessment of normalcy/ordinaryness and said that it seemed like you were doing what the psychiatrist Eric Berne called “Doesn’t Everyone?” (a defensive mechanism people use to normalize behavior and events from childhood).
You then responded that if I encountered your description of your sibling relationship as abusive, that I must come from a dysfunctional family - even though you had no information about me whatsoever - none - I pointed this out to you, saying that with no information about me, what you were doing constituted a projection on your part - And your response to that is to tell me that my experience is limited (and again, how would you know?) and then to surmise that I am a student at a junior college. (No, I am not).
Then you admonish me not to judge if I don’t want to be judged. But what you were doing wasn’t judging - to make a judgement one must have information - what you were doing was spewing accusations made up out of whole cloth. That’s not judging, that’s projecting.
You chose to divulge information about your family, and you characterized it as normal. When you make an assertion like that, you are inviting judgement. A reader will either agree or disagree with your assertion. (By the way, agreement is also a judgement).
I also find it curious that you accuse me of being “elitist”. Isn’t “elitist” a Dem word?
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