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[Dark n Stormy Knight]

6. Awww, thanks.

Holidays are already complicated since I can't bear to hang out with my abusive brother and his enablers. If I could put it aside for Mom's sake, I would. But it's been a long time coming for me to say no more and I just can't go back to pretending.

The sad thing is that Mom seems to resent time with my husband and me, because it's not with the brother, even though previous to our estrangement from my brother, we did lots with her or my parents together. without the others. And my "ally" sister very seldom came for holidays and nothing was ever said to make her feel like she was "breaking up the family," as I've been told I'm doing.

I guess Mom can decide if she wants to see us without the others or not at all. I hate to add to her distress, but that's how it has to be.