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Other than offspring, parents and maybe grandparents, I don't see why any family should have anything more than a grade or two more of leeway than friends, for example...
If you brother fucks with your life once, than fair enough, forgive him after a time. If he consistently fucks with your life, then why the hell put up with it?
Cutting unnecessary agony out of your life should be a prime directive.
Parents get special passes because for some reason, people whose parents die while they're on bad or non-existent terms seem to suffer enormously.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
Last edited by tisonlyi; 04-02-2009 at 03:15 AM..
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