[Serious] Family Rifts

[TaraJo]

The harsh truth to personal conflict is this:  You can't let your happiness depend on other people. If they want to screw things up, if they want to fight and scream and abuse and lie and manipulate, well, let them..... but you have to learn to take care of yourself despite it.

And as mean as it might sound, sometimes you have to distance yourself from someone you care about because they're hurting you and maybe even hurting themselves.  If you let them pull you down, you won't be there to help pull them up, later, when they start to get their shit together.

Sometimes, it can hurt, but you just have to be able to move on.

Well howdy Tara. Ain't seen you in these parts in a coons age.

Yeah, I've been going through a lot lately and having a few other people to talk to can help.  And for an antisocial bitch like me, "talking" seems to be easier when it involves typing away at a keyboard and hitting a "post reply" button.

Or something like that.

Truthfully, there's a drinking with atheists event for a local atheist group tomorrow.  I want to go, but since I have work Saturday morning, I can't stay out too terribly late (can't drink too much, either, but that's something I should be watching out for anyway).