We no longer talk to each other, he refused to test for covid and wear a mask to come see my newborn at the peak of covid infections, after receiving multiple audio messages of just verbal abuse I cut ties. I lost a lot of friends we had in common but I’m good now.

Im the oldest of three brothers.

Me and the youngest brother are pretty tight. Which hasn’t always been the case. There was an eleven year gap between us so it was pretty touch and go growing up. When I moved back in with the parents briefly just as he was getting out of highschool, we started getting along a lot better and we ended up forming a really solid relationship. I’m really proud of the man he’s grown into.

The middle brother… Well, it would be easy to say that he found religion and we drifted apart… But my youngest brother also found religion and that didn’t mess our relationship up at all (Im agnostic leabing towards atheism)

The middle brother just … isn’t interested in figuring out how to be friendly. My youngest brother and I can disagree about stuff and be fine with it, but middle brother dige his heels in and can’t ever find a way around it. So 1 out of 2 isn’t too bad, honestly. I leave the lines of communication open for the middle brother, and every now and then we have a fun conversation. But that’s about it.

I have 3 half sisters, two from my mom and one from my dad. All three are drug addicts to some degree, all three have kids they don’t have custody off.

My dad used to date a lot of strippers, he brought one home one day and she heard his last name and asked if he was related to a girl who was in fact my sister, his daughter. She had apparently beat her unconscious with a glass ash tray and robbed her once. She later claimed a man had raped her, and he went to prison. She later got arrested on drug charges and tried to claim another man, which I believe was her drug dealer, had raped her. She has 5 kids, 3 of them had been taken by the state and their names changed. Haven’t talked to those kids in over a decade. Her husband’s name is Billy Ray, she’s been married to him since her first child was born but he’s only the father of 2. Active meth user the whole time I knew her.

Another sister who just required an abusive man. She only left one dude when she met another guy who just got out of prison three months earlier and got pregnant. I actually like this guy, he’s not as bad as most of the other boy friends, but them together was incredibly toxic. I don’t know her son, though, I saw him once when he was in diapers and hardly speaking. She once ran her truck up on the siderail of a bride because she was fucked up on robitussin. Regular pill popper.

The last sister got pregnant at 16 and I vividly remember her screaming at her daughter because she wanted attention but her mom was busy laying on a couch and scrolling facebook. I vividly remember her screaming at her very loudly and publicly in a taco bell because she complained about eating taco bell for the fourth time that week. She had money of course but she spent most of it on hydros and weed. She’s was always a cunt, though.

Not very.

My sister and I get along really well but are not close.

I haven’t had any real contact with my brother in the past 5 years. I see him for four hours each year so my parents can have the family together for Christmas dinner and that is it.

I had to cut my sister out of my life for her constant abuse and toxicity. It sadly cost me the relationship with my father who is now 80 and likely we won’t get the chance to reconnect before he is gone. It has been almost 4 years and I have no regrets about cutting her off. She has since shown up at my door multiple times unannounced (we live 350 miles away) and has tried to circumvent me and communicate directly with my kids by giving them toys.