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In reply to the discussion: Ok my blood is boiling today!!! [View all]Solly Mack
(90,855 posts)16. Almost no one can push our buttons like our siblings.
And they can be stupid cruel in the doing. Pointless attacks simply to cause pain. Made all the worse when they are so obviously in the wrong but think they're only being honest or reasonable. Downright smug about it.
I'm sorry, samplegirl.
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well, there WAS a time when families were split. Some chose the Union. Others, the Confederacy.
Grasswire2
Nov 2018
#96
I think I'm to that point but a life long fellow D.U.er and personsal friend is begging me not to as
samplegirl
Nov 2018
#11
I tried for years to wait for things to change with my RW evangelical sister.
pazzyanne
Nov 2018
#54
Could there be a much bigger socialist than a union rep? I bet he doesn't like hearing that.
brewens
Nov 2018
#7
It's a wonder some family will talk to me. I know they saw one exchange I had on FB.
brewens
Nov 2018
#15
I'm very sorry, samplegirl. Stand your ground, though as your own self-respect is more
hlthe2b
Nov 2018
#8
My thought also - seems like the brother is the one on the outs with thegenersl
rurallib
Nov 2018
#23
Don't ever change anything about yourself, your name, anything. It's you, period. And if ...
SWBTATTReg
Nov 2018
#22
Huh? it's your name too! Did he ever think you may be the one embarrassed sharing it with him ?
lunasun
Nov 2018
#37
Only a deeply sexist jackass would try to tell a woman what name she can use or sputter
Maru Kitteh
Nov 2018
#49
That may work for some people but don't discount the need for some people to part ways r/o
BlueInRedHell
Nov 2018
#63
His union is paying his pension. Thank God for unions - someone should tell him
demosincebirth
Nov 2018
#94
I retired (1999) from the Teamsters union after 40 years - shop steward for 25 years, organizer
demosincebirth
Nov 2018
#93
I would have asked him to drop HIS last name, because it was embarrassing me. nt
Honeycombe8
Nov 2018
#91
I did a Mexican Thanksgiving a few years ago. Huevos rancheros for breakfast to Churros for dessert.
Lochloosa
Nov 2018
#114
Your brother. Aw damn, samplegirl. I'm so sorry about your having to go through
calimary
Nov 2018
#118