This time of year amplifies familial dissonance among other things. Why can’t we be like the happy ppl on tv? I hate it for the most part tbh (except Folgers). I’m so sorry you’re grieving so much. I hope all of your grieving can purge whatever it is that makes you long for your brother’s attention.

Hope you get well soon! Please keep testing for Covid…I mistakenly thought it wasn’t Covid after a false negative and missed the Paxlovid window.

My wife was going to die while in the ICU even though they didn’t have a solid diagnosis. She’s sitting next to me now on our couch shopping for random shit online.

But I don’t recall your biological father being mentally compromised when he demolished your family trust. So it’s hard to imagine him being “worm-tongued” but rather a participant.

I think you mentioned your living biological brother is very transactional. Could this have been more of a calculated investment on his part? He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that does things out of the kindness of his heart.

Nothing you’ve written seems to indicate this person is actual family. Just someone raised in the same house and with more shared DNA than most. He doesn’t even bother to feign empathy. He doesn’t deserve you either. I’m so sorry.

I’m so sorry for your loss…not just of your father’s life, but of what he meant to you and for your chances to reconcile this with him. What he did was cruel and cowardly. He didn’t deserve you.

Yeah…it’d be a lot easier if they were all a bunch of Ben Roethlisburgers.

The Mandalorian. Although he joined the year after I graduated. Another that I think you’ll know is Robb Nen…the closer on that Marlins team that beat the tribe in the ‘97 WS. He married a friend of mine, his HS sweetheart…really cool guy. I still hate him.

“Down goes Anderson!”

Genesis, “Illegal Alien”.

❤️