Another letter from my sister

Whatever you say, Laurie. I don’t want any part of this anymore. You guys pick the stranges times to go all sanctimonious. And a diagnosis? What diagnosis? I don’t know of anything that makes you lie.

Not a contest for my brother? Sure. Even HE feels like you are trying to battle the family for him. Unless you want to say my mom is a liar.

I honestly don’t know what MH was talking about, nor why she thinks I told my mother that my spouse is battling the family for me. It’s not true. I don’t know what I DID say to Mama, but that wasn’t it.

Yeah, he should accept you. That’s why I’m leaving y’all alone. I want no part of this. I told y’all back in December how I felt. I have bitten my tongue so hard it’s almost cut off – just because I don’t want problems with Jr.

I don’t try to bully Jr. I just want people to tell the truth. It works a hell of a lot better. See what beating around the bush gets you?

Nobody beat around the bush. We tell the truth, and my sister won’t accept it. She acts as if she doesn’t even HEAR it, much less accept it or believe it.

The only all or nothing that I insist on is the truth. Everything else can be worked with. But I don’t get it. The one thing that defines me – makes me who I am – and I can’t have it from y’all. Honesty. I’m not the one that can’t take it. Literal minded? Okay, yeah. I am. If you say it’s because of a bad tire and weather, then that’s what it needs to be…it wasn’t – it was because you guys didn’t want to drive. And then because of that he goes and accuses me of hurting my kids? Buzz off. No one is going to tell me how to raise my kids or what is good for them or what I can and cannot tell them. NO ONE!

Which will almost certainly guarantee her childrens’ destruction if my sister keeps up the way she is going. She DID hurt her children by telling them I would be there when I had not committed to coming to visit and stay a few days.

Y’all go all self righteous whenever y’all realize you have made a mistake and don’t know how to deal with it. That’s the problem. But you have to have something to be self righteous about – and I ought to know. Yeah, I can be pretty freaking self righteous, but you can be damned sure it will be based on facts, not my hurt pride.

I’d like for someone to tell me – truthfully and objectively – what mistake we made.

All I ever wanted was for Jr to be taken care of. If that includes taking care of you in the process – it’s a by product that works in Jr’s favor. I don’t care. I wasn’t about not helping Jr just so I could cut you. I love him too much for that. But by God, I’m done with people telling me how I am. I’m done with folks who think they know me better than I know myself – my motives, my thoughts, whatever! I don’t want Jr to have problems, and that’s exactly what you plus me equals…so I’m backing out of this. I’ll leave y’all alone. Just use that brain that you think so highly of and take care of business. You are so proud of what you know…well use it to take care of my brother. That’s something expected of a marriage too. And I hope that last comment in your email wasn’t a dig about my personal relationship with God, because it’s just fine, thank you.