In honor of the Ides of March, what was a time you were stabbed in the back by your closest friends?

I love my brother, and I'll always accept him as such, but he does have a habit of kicking me when I'm down when I'm in my most desperate hour of need.

There was one time in World of Warcraft where we were in the same guild and there was this person who wanted me to run her through Maraudon. I've spent a great deal of time running people through instances at max level, so this wasn't any different, until she started screaming in my face about how I cleared the mobs leading to the dungeon (you know, to make it easier for her to arrive without any trouble). It ended up with me gkicking her and then with the guild leadership (who I had been acquainted for for a while) decided to kick me so they could bring her back.

Bad enough that I got stabbed in the back by them, my brother had to jump and tell me that I was in the wrong and that I deserved the gkick. Then he went on to say that the guild I was thinking of moving to was growing resentful of me. Not the greatest bedside manner ever.

N.B.: in retrospect, I can now see that I too was being a bit immature and I can see why these people kicked me from the guild. That said, the new guild I went into, coincidence of coincidences, had the same guildie that caused the whole shebang. She tried the same shit with the new guild leadership and got kicked. So I guess karma did run its course.

Now, I would like to say that it was an isolated incident and that bygones should be bygones, but there was a time (hell, it's ongoing actually) where I'm working through dealing with the fact that my mother physically and psychologically abused me growing up. Being an Asian family, everything's about face, while I don't really like the idea of keeping up appearances. I don't like you, I'll show you I don't like you.

So my dad was very unhappy that I started being very cold towards my mother and went NC. Then I was forced to spend Christmas with them in 2015 and then things went nuclear, with my dad and I getting into a huge yelling match.

My brother offered to take me for a drive (he didn't) and then he ended up saying that my parents, while they are in the wrong, are never going to apologise, and that it should be on me to do the apologising!! Then he said, for my trouble, my dad's gonna start throwing slights at me! This was a year after I poured my heart out to him and he listened. Then he turns around and sides with my abusive mother after all of this.

I'm starting to notice a pattern, and I love my brother to bits, but I don't know how I should confront him on this, because I don't want to endanger our friendship.

TL;DR: Brother sided with the guildies who backstabbed me, then sided with my abusive mother a couple years later. I'm noticing a pattern

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