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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Do you get on with all your siblings/parents etc? Have you gripes about them? Are there things you would like to say to/about them, good or bad?
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We're related. That's about it.
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Originally Posted by Burning Down
There are a lot of black sheep in my family, unfortunately. Would take a few posts to talk about them lol.
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I'm definitely the black sheep. My grandparents on my mother's side have always hated my father, and I closely resemble him (even though I'm a woman) in both my looks and mannerisms. I was doomed to be hated by them forever, and my mother has said that they
still talk sh
it about me, even though I haven't seen any of my relatives in about 2 years.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
My sister as most or all of you know was struck with MS in 2001.So in 2001 she was taken into hospital after too many falls and we got the bad news.
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I feel your pain there. My mother has taken so many falls, it's amazing she's still alive. She's fallen down stairs, fallen in the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom, everywhere and anywhere. She just loses her balance and she's down. She almost lost an eye once because the nosepiece of her glasses cut right through the skin near her eye. (She fell on her face, practically - speaking of which, she's also chipped some teeth from literally falling on her face.) It's just horrifying growing up in that sort of environment; you jump at every loud noise and you're filled with dread and terror, thinking "what if this is the last time". It's just awful watching someone have to deal with those symptoms.
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Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe
My stepdad I'm not really close with. He goes out on the road quite a bit since he's a truck driver, and then when he's home he's usually in his room or down in the basement drinking.
My stepmom is insanely religious. She takes tons of pain pills because of an accident that happened forever ago, and as a result she's not "all there". I used to think she was drunk all the time.
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Your step-parents are basically my biological parents. My father spent my childhood on the road (he has a different job now) and my mother has devoted her life to Christ (she has devotionals taped to the inside of the cabinets in the kitchen if that gives you any idea how crazy she is).