Dear Cousin,
You are a complete and total b***h.
You like me so much because I do not dare to voice disagreement with you or tell you no. I am paying for your goodwill, and you're too self-absorbed and entitled to realize it.
I will probably continue to buy your goodwill for the next twelve years, because your kid seems to be OK, and my kid likes him. After the boys turn 18, though, it's f**k YOU.
Daddy didn't turn his back on you people because Mom turned him against you. Daddy turned his back on you people because he finally realized you were using him, and he had enough other people in his life that he didn't have to pay-per-service for your company any more.
Grandma doesn't have meltdowns and panic attacks to get attention-- though it really wouldn't hurt if you'd pay attention to her at other times. Grandma has meltdowns and panic attacks because she's in the late stages of dementia and can no longer suppress or conterbalance a lifetime of earning the very air she breathes and having no self-esteem. Maybe you've noticed that she looks at things and does not see them, or that she keeps asking to "Go upstairs to bed" in a ONE-STORY HOUSE?!?! YEAH. GET IT?!?!
You epitomize the saying, "Being socially skillful does not make you prosocial."
I am glad you are successful in life. I hope you stay that way.
Notwithstanding, YOU SUCK.
Love,
Your Former Patsy
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"