3. LPT: Cut off ties with your toxic family members. All they are good at is suck t...

LPT: Cut off ties with your toxic family members. All they are good at is suck the positivity out of your life .

It's subjective.

Our father wasn't really a father in the sense of that word, when he was present he was drunk, physically abusive, miserable, and would frequently project his failures and insecurities onto all of us, it was an unfortunate experience however our mother bless her heart did everything she could to love and support us, she came from the old school mentality of sticking with people no matter what (I still don't agree with her justifications for staying with him for the sake of maintaining a "proper household" for me and 2 younger siblings, she left him literally the week after my youngest brother graduated high school and signed off to university.

I grew up and learned more about him, his father AND mother were equally cruel so I can understood his issues better as an adult. I don't love him but I stopped hating him in my early 20s when I started living life.

He's in poor health and blew threw his savings immediately after my mother left, he remarried a very lonely woman with a pension and from what I've gathered she's an alright person with a good heart, I feel bad for her situation but it's out of my hands.

He reached out last year at the beginning of covid with his usual lines and for some reason I agreed, he tried to sell my some stories and long story short was making the rounds between us using nostalgia to see if any of us were open to helping him financially.

My brother and I received the majority of his wrath and our sister had a different experience, I'm worried about the emotional and eventual financial toll he'll take on her but that's out of my hands.

I've put him behind me a long time ago, obviously we're connected by external factors in life but I will be relieved when I receive the call, I am not looking forward to it.

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