I Walked Away From Christianity, but How do I Walk Away From My Family?

[Rhondazvous]

Just a couple of thoughts/questions. 

Why are you paying the eighty dollars to go somewhere that you won't enjoy? Is this your fee admittance to be around the family? Or is this some twisted sister thought process, somehow you owe her and her kids? If you have to pay, you pick the place.

Celebrated, not tolerated? Does not sound like you will be even tolerated. More like used and possibly abused. (at least mentally)

Did I get this right, your sis prays to god that you will be punished and cry out to be saved? If correct, that's messed up. Why would you want to be around her?

Their love seems conditional. Is it worth the conditions?

I have not been in a situation like this with family, but with friends. Lets just say they were not friends for long. I have no clue what happened to them. As far as I'm concerned I ended up fine.

Do a risk/benefit or pro/con analysis. Then make the right choice for you.

It’s my mother who is praying for something bad to happen to me. My sister and mother are very close, even though my mother told me my sister stole $5,000 from her and my sister tells me our mother ignores her grandchildren. They are the kind of people who will treat you like shit and then demand forgiveness or else god won’t forgive you.

A few months ago, I agreed to help pay for my niece to go to an indoor surfing thing. Only now she has told me they plan to take 4 of my niece's friends to the zoo for her birthday and it will cost eighty dollars. We’re not talking about food and other stuff kids will want.

I think you are right. This is a bum deal. When I think of the reasons why I even consider going, they’re all about the opinions of people whose hold on reality reminds me of when I dropped a bar of soap in the shower.