Or, alternatively, what did you do to another person which got you blacklisted from their life?
My (53m) idiot older brothers (61 and 59 respectively).
The oldest decided to scam me and the middle brother out of our shares of the family farm. It’s not a huge amount of money, but the fact he did what he did is enough.
My middle brother informed me, at Thanksgiving 2 years ago, that he was a member of the oath keepers and that essentially he was the new patriarch of the family. All of my political beliefs are bullshit and I had to subscribe to the right wingnut bullshit he adhered to. Military this and guns that. The stupid fuck was in the army for 6 years back in the 80’s.
Haven’t spoken to either of those assholes in years, nor will I ever again.
My friend who was an insurance agent, wanted me to take insurance policy from the company he worked, so he could get a commission.
I said I’m not interested. He sent a video where a truck lost control hit the median of a road then dump all of its load on a car and said it can happen to me.
I said f**k off. That was the last time I contacted him.
Two separate people, and it was them being alcoholics.
My friend’s brother in law is a complete dick but I never said anything until I got into a long term relationship. At that point I figured I could afford to lose my friend in the event he took his brother in law’s side so I cut that dude out of my life.
My friend decided to stay in my life so that’s a win. It’s nice to have a friend but not need them so much that you’ll put up with assholes.
During COVID, one of my in-laws was strongly anti-lockdown and anti vaccine, while I was pro lockdown and pro vaccine.
I made a point of not replying to anything to he posted, and would curtly respond to him when he responded to me.
He kept sending me the trashiest anti-anything messages via DM, but appeared to stop when I asked him to.
2 weeks later, he sent me another. I reminded him he promised to not send me these anymore, to which he responded first apologizing, and then threatening me because my (then fiancee, now wife) was eligible for an early vaccine due to working in the medical field. Basically saying “well, when she’s hurt from the vaccine, and she will get hurt from it, Im coming for you”
Of course, my wife is as much pro-vaccine as I am, and was bragging to friends that she got it early.
I shared the screenshots of the threat around, blocked him. Havnt talked to him since and I think most of the in-laws family have done the same.
Props to you for setting up boundaries and enforcing them. And for cutting them off when they didn’t stop after multiple warnings.
I had to draw the line with some members of my family after they joined some christian cult and started to pressure me to “see the light”. Fortunately for me it was enough to just do that.
