Today, my parents cut ties with me because I refused to drop out of college and move five states away with them for a "fresh start" after the deaths of my siblings. I basically lost my whole family in the span of just two months. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my parents have separated. I stayed with them, living at home far too long for my own comfort, just to help them keep it together after they lost their remaining parents. Literally the month after I moved out, they decided it wasn't worth it. I now suspect they stayed together only because I still lived at home. FML
Today, I dropped out of college and moved back home to help my mom take care of my younger siblings after our father's death. My mom yelled at me and scolded me and lectured me for throwing my life away, and said this was the last thing she ever wanted me to do. I thought she needed help. FML
Today, my parents told me they're getting a divorce because of all the strain caused by me nearly dying in an accident. FML
Today, my family got mad at me and called me a "selfish" for not moving to the same state they’re in while I was visiting, so they could be closer to my kid. We were living in the same house as them until two years ago, in my current state, until they decided to move with only a month's notice for me to find a new place. FML
Today, I was disowned in my family because of the pandemic, after I refused to quit my job and live at my parents house, with them supporting my family, so now no one in my family has acknowledged my existence since August 2020. FML
Today, my mom took away my car, phone, dog, laptop and college fund because I told her she lets me down sometimes. I'm moving to Arizona for college in two weeks. FML
Today, an aunt that I'd had a massive falling out with passed away. My entire extended family refuses to speak to me, because they think I "had something to do with it". I live several hundred miles from her. FML
Today, my parents happily announced that they're getting remarried. They divorced because of the strain brought on by me nearly dying in a car accident. So basically they put us through all that shit, including me blaming myself for everything, for nothing. FML
Today, my mom disowned me and forced me to move out because I didn’t have a crying heartbroken meltdown at the death of my stepfather. She knows I hated the man's guts since the first time he slapped her, so my not caring about his death shouldn't have surprised her. FML
Today, I found out that 15 years ago my father threw out my college acceptance letters so that I could stay home and take over the family's funeral home business. FML
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SAgirl 23
They are not thinking straight because of grief. Hang in there, they will realize their mistake.
DLBL 23
In times of grief, many people want to keep one thing that's normal. For you, it may be college. Their decision to make a fresh start (?) is only their decision. Sorry for your loss.
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SAgirl 23
They are not thinking straight because of grief. Hang in there, they will realize their mistake.
DLBL 23
In times of grief, many people want to keep one thing that's normal. For you, it may be college. Their decision to make a fresh start (?) is only their decision. Sorry for your loss.
FluffythePink 23
Grief sends you crazy for 3 to 5 years before you start circling back to beginning to actually function again. You need your normal to cope and your parents are clearly just running away from everything. I know it hurts beyond description but they're not thinking, it's entirely reflexive and they're going to regret it down the line. Find yourself counselling to keep you level and hopefully you've got some decent friends around you until your parents start thinking again. Get help, make sure you've got a support group around you and hang on to the collage work with all you've got. There's no 'right' way to deal with grief. There's just constructive and destructive ways to get through it. Do some reading into it, talk to a professional and understand what you are going through. It's the only way to get through it without waking up one day, five states away from everything you know in the smoking ash and rubble of what's left of your life... 🫂