My parents called me on my birthday. I didn’t return their call. My sister called me on my birthday. I didn’t return her call. I am working on getting my issues with them out in the open, but it is going to take a lot of time. In the mean time, I am avoiding them.
The best possible strategy? Probably not. But I don’t HAVE to do anything.
My friend’s mom was in town this weekend, and told me I have to maintain a relationship with my nephew, whom I have never even met nor heard anything about, other than his name. But I don’t want to. I don’t see why I have to build and maintain a relationship with someone whom I have never met, and unless I go out of my way to establish said relationship and go to meet him, I will never meet.
Why is it that people only want to maintain a relationship with you if you are willing to do all of the work? Sometimes, you get to the point where enough is enough, and you start to ask yourself, “do I really have to?”. The answer is no, duane. No, you don’t.
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