The lists I could write about the stuff my sister and her two oldest daughters put me through when I lived there are insane. I sometimes just list it all to myself to prove that I wasn't the bad guy they keep trying to make me out to be, because they paint me to anyone who will listen as this diabolical b***h who mooched off them and took advantage of their good nature but always leave out the fact I paid rent, I bought my own food, I did all the house work and babysitting 4 kids age 13, 9, 5 and under 1 (including helping homeschool them and babysitting jer friends kids who would get left there often), etc. Hell, first day I woke up there not even awake for 5 minutes and my sister tried to FORCE me to sign up for food stamps. Hadn't even been back on US soil for 24 hours (I don't even think it'd even been 12 hours) and she wanted to use me to get them food stamps (they weren't poor, by the way, they lived in a suburban neighborhood in a 6 almost 7 bedroom, 4 bath, 2 story house with a pool in their bavkyard and garage, and her husband and her both worked jobs where they got paid under the table so very little was taken out in taxes).
I am in Dallas, Texas now. Its not necessarily where I wanted to end up, but she was in Texas and it was that or go to Arkansas with my dad to live in a shed so I picked the better of the two evils (my dad literally told them I had made my bed and could sleep in it, so even if I wanted to I wouldn't have wanted to you know). Then I met my guy and I am kinda stuck here for a bit at least until we decide we want to go somewhere else. Its definitely hard to be an alternative person who is not conservative out here, though.
I'd love to come visit one day! Definitely something I'd have to save up for and plan, but that would be awesome. If you ever want my phone number so we can text or whatever lemme know, I don't mind.
Thats what it was, cause when I made friends with a friend of hers that was the same age as me (that she forced me to be friends with mind you, I refused to get friendly with her at first because I KNEW my sister well enough to know it would be an issue if we became actual friends) and started going out and trying to be a more normal person while I was coming to terms with the fact that I was in the kind of relationship I was in and that it was ending and that I basically had to start my life over from scratch and her friend helped me through that. It became such a big issue that she literally locked me out of the house that I paid rent to stay in because I came home at 10PM from seeing a movie with the friend. That friend ended up being just as toxic and bad as my sister (should have known she would have had to have been to be friends with my sister), but still. She almost kicked me out over it. So yes, I am so so happy to not have to worry about making her mad constantly.
It must feel good to have such a big list, though! All the possibilities and projects sounds like heaven.
That sounds amazing/like my dream! I have a dark green sofa and my bathroom is dark green, gold and dark blue, too. I love dark maximalist/dark botanical/dark academia with a hint of whimsigoth. Yeah she is legitimately insane and uses the fact that she let me stay with her (paying het $800 for a room and a bed she bought and made me pay for) after I got sent back to the states as an excuse to basically say I owe her even though not only did I pay rent but I babysat, cleaned, did laundry and cooked for her husband, her husband elderly uncle, her and four kids, and also helped with her Etsy shirt/embroidery/etc business. The most she did was get me from the airport and allow me to pay to stay there, while she talked s**t about me to my MIL and fed information about me and my situation to my dad who I was no contact with. She tricked me into seeing him only a few months after I was back. So no, I don't owe her anything.
Because I went from miminal contact to no contact with her when she ruined my birthday last year and told me to never contact her again. So I didn't. She showed up to my job, MY JOB, after a year of absolutely zero contact, to give me the most generic birthday card I have every gotten in my life, no apology, nothing. Then she went to anyone else in the family that I do still talk to to cause drama about how I acted when she came and called me all sorts of things. Ooh what color are you doing for the paint? I don't drink very much myself and when I do it sneaks up on me. I'll be fine and sober until all of sudden I am gone.
Hey! Working retail during the holidays is always not fun, and my sister decided to start drama, but otherwise they were good! How was yours? How have you been? Sorry I don't use discord for anything else and I keep forgetting to check there and that is my bad completely. How is the new house going?
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I am in Dallas, Texas now. Its not necessarily where I wanted to end up, but she was in Texas and it was that or go to Arkansas with my dad to live in a shed so I picked the better of the two evils (my dad literally told them I had made my bed and could sleep in it, so even if I wanted to I wouldn't have wanted to you know). Then I met my guy and I am kinda stuck here for a bit at least until we decide we want to go somewhere else. Its definitely hard to be an alternative person who is not conservative out here, though.
I'd love to come visit one day! Definitely something I'd have to save up for and plan, but that would be awesome. If you ever want my phone number so we can text or whatever lemme know, I don't mind.
It must feel good to have such a big list, though! All the possibilities and projects sounds like heaven.
I appreciate that.
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