For her majesty's secret service

[gemfyre]

Gee my family infuriates me sometimes.

My sister's 30th birthday party was last night. The invite was only to me so Matt and I decided we should be polite and ask if he should go. Now, for some reason Shell (my sister) dislikes Matt because apparently sometime he yelled at me or some shit (hey not like I don't yell back, it can't have been anything major because I don't remember, and like she and her hubby are perfect). She said no, she'd rather he didn't come. How fucking rude.

So I went to the party. EVERYONE else there had their significant other, some even asked where Matt was to which I just replied "Ask Shell." in a mumble. I just sat in the loungeroom and watched the James Bond movie, bored out of my brain because these were all my sister's friends, not my friends, and for some reason I had been singled out to not have someone there to keep me company.

Why the fuck, after almost FIVE YEARS is Matt still treated as an outsider. All the previous girlfriends/boyfriends of my siblings have been accepted but Matt gets no end of the "Oh he's so loud and annoying." "When will he get a job?" "He treats you terribly you know?" Yeah well you try doing nice things for each other when you're both poor students. Bloody hell. It really pisses me off.

I am so NOTHING like the rest of my family. I vaguely resemble my brother if anything but we still differ in some aspects. Most of my family and their friends are all narrow minded right-wingish types that went straight into the workforce and started families. Me on the other hand, I decided to learn a bit more, get a few qualifications behind me, have FUN and not even THINK about kids for many years yet. And because of that my family and I seem like different entities.

Gah, it pisses me off.

Comments

[shrika.livejournal.com]

I truelly know what part of this is like. Dazz's Dad (Nigel) isn't exactly fond of me and calls me 'shit for brains' behind my back. Anyway Dazz's Mom (Gina) won't really commune with me because she doesn't want to upset her husband (but aparantly she doesn't really have an opinion of me! Ugh LIAR!!).
So now Darryl kind of gets neglected and we hardly see his parents as much as we used to and I just don't think that is fair to Dazz.
The interesting thing is that both Gina's brother and mother didn't approve of Nigel and still don't like him but are so supportive of it anyway because they can see Gina loves Nigel. Sad they couldn't do the same for us. What pisses me off the most is they aren't even up front about it all! I mean if they have a problem they should get it out in the open and be done with it!

And Matt is loud and annoying *teases*
"Thus the basis of it's appeal" :)

Good luck with it all anyway

[maelkann.livejournal.com]

Moral of story: Get new families.

[firvulag.livejournal.com]

It's so anoying when they don't put accross any indication of this also. I mean I used to think your family didnt mind me, then you tell me you mum has never liked me, and now we find out that your sister hasn't liked me for god nows how long since i cant remember yelling at you in her presence either. sure i'm loud, i cant help it. if i'm anoying, why do so many people communicate with me then? i'm sure they can manage to make contacts with other people without going through me.

It's such a pity that some of us just can't choose our families

family politics

[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

Well, try being gay. That makes it hella more complicated!

Re: family politics

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if my parents would have a problem with that or not. My sister however seems worried when I mention that certain females are sexy.

But yeah, in most old fashioned family units I can imagine it would be a whole new world of complication. Geesh, why can't everyone just be open minded and accepting?

[shadowshifter.livejournal.com]

tell em to stop being so goddamn close-minded. that works amazing wonders. they either stop and think and go yeh we are close minded or yell and scream no we're not close-minded we're jes right coz we're older than you therefore we know better which proves they are close minded.

more families should be like mine and Josh's i think. they rock.

[riverstar.livejournal.com]

my family is like that
They never liked anyone o went out with. This is why i stopped telling them.
Of course you cant do that...but hey matt is that im portant...ignore the family...all that matters is what you think!