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Originally Posted by Psycho Dad
Just curious... When you have tried to reach out to your aunt, were you trying to mend the fence between her and your mother or other family members, or just between you and her?
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At first (in previous explosions), it was to mend the fence between her and others in my family. Then, with the event at my grandmother's funeral, I tried to reach out with some basic moves, and she verbally attacked me in return. I haven't really bothered since then, I guess. My mother and another of her sisters have both tried to reach out to her since then, with only more fire being spat back in their faces after a few weeks of apparent amicability. They stopped bothering, then. If were my grandmother were still alive, I am not even sure if she would be able to talk with her daughter, since my aunt verbally abused my grandmother several times as well. Her adult daughter can't really stand her, either... but of course, her daughter is turning out to be just like her, no surprise there. We just don't talk to that branch of the family any longer. I think she has one brother left who allies with her, but he's rather self-alienating and has never shown interest in the rest of the family, anyway (there are 10 siblings).