@Julez: what jacob said, you're always welcome to talk to us if you need to. It might not be the same as someone there on the spot but we're here for you
@jacob: Haha, yeah, Ash told me he was talking about my family with his therapist and she apparently said they are extremely toxic so... They are all full of insecurities and anger etc. I mean, I'm insecure as hell too, I just don't know what's going on in their heads (except I kinda know because their patterns never change so it's super easy to predict, yet I still hope every time it will change for the better).'I feel you with assertiveness. It's not easy to learn it
@Moi:
Moi wrote:people like that seem to be so self-centered that they don't even realize it.
Moi wrote:She sees herself as selfless and gives too much when in fact, she's pretty selfish a lot.
That's exactly why I keep questioning myself. What if I'M that person? Maybe I really am that self-centered that I just don't see it, because I only see what I give and not what other people give back?
My mom doesn't seem to realize writing stuff to one another is also a form of communication, and clearer sometimes.
Well, it was name's day and I've changed my name over a year ago and my grandma still bought some terrible chocolates for the old name's day and I'm like... It'S nOt My NaMe AnYmOrE

I'm not big on birthdays as well, but name's day is such a crap I don't even xD And I get really frustrated when I get sweets as a present beacuse I try to avoid sugar. I get a lot of acne from it. And especially my grandma has no idea what I like and just buys the most sugary and not tasty crap of all.
No one likes Hufflepuffs because JK Rowling effed it up xD Not enough representation. Poor Cedric Diggory and that's basically it. Some names that we are told are Hufflepuffs but yeah. But same goes for Slytherin: all are bad or grey, there's no good Slytherins. Like, calm down, woman, that's not how the world works, you lied to the kids
Okay, I'll calm down now
It's okay to be absent, no need to apologize :)
What was the study for? Sleeping patterns or something?
Maybe the news in the cat neighbourhood spread that you're the ones feeding stray kittens
Spoiler: mother update, just ranting, nutshell below
She called me up yesterday and first it was just small talk and I was kind of annoyed but tried to show it because I knew why she was calling. So when we got to the point of the call I told her some things. About trying to make that e-mail to her super neutral yet somehow she read more into it than there was. And I just basically told her all the things I already wrote her but she didn't seem to understand. I had to explain to her that I just thought I could make one day more with my brother-in-law and I just miscalculated my resilience. Even though I made it very clear in my mail, she didn't get it by reading it, I had to explain it to her verbally all over again. I really think she might be stupid... I don't know what to think. And back on that fateful Sunday she told me she thought I was just showing off how angry and unhappy I am, even though I told her then that I need to think about what happened then. And she kept thinking I'm just showing off my anger and just being childish and RUNNING AWAY. Like, no, ma, I wasn't running away, I was doing some mature thinking over my own actions and you all just went in on me and treated me like I'm a monster that you called me a few days later.
Do you know what she said when I reminded she'd called me that? "I was all emotional"... WELL NO FUCKING SHIT, I was emotional too, obviously, but I didn't do any name calling, even to that man I can't stand. And she said she'd hardly call it name calling... Can you believe this? You call someone something offensive, but it's not a "whore" or "bitch" or whatever and somehow it's not name calling anymore? If it's offensive and unnecessary, it's name calling. I didn't call her stupid but she called me mental and a monster. She apologized for calling me that and that she realized she shouldn't have said it when she heard me sob from behind the wall (and I didn't sob, I hyperventilated when I heard her say those words but I didn't feel like telling her that over the phone) and that she knows it's exactly what she was fed with by her own parents and she really regrets saying that.
My mom also said "I don't want to lose the relationship that we have, it's not the same with your sister". Hmmmm maybe because she's selfish and only calls people when she needs help from them? I told her that Ash once told me to look through my Messenger with my sister and he'd bet his head all the conversations are about her. I did check and most of the time it was her writing a lot to me and if I wrote anything longer to her, it would be advice to her. My mom didn't say anything to that. then I told her that when they were in Warsaw, my sister didn't come to visit my dad and his mom. True, he told me grandma and him got sick that week but still. She could've at least went there for an hour or so. Dad's mom is getting worse and worse after all the strokes and heart attacks and everything. She's almost literally falling apart, you never know when her time comes. And my sister comes to Warsaw once a year maybe. Or maybe not even that.
I also told mom I didn't dare to send any mails to my sister because of that thing she did just before the writing workshop started. That everything I say she turns back against me and I see no way to even try to explain things to her because she simply doesn't seem to have the will to understand. She's in that victim mindset and she demands people act the way she wants because she's the victim here and you should apologize and think and go fuck yourself or whatever. Aaaand my mom couldn't find words for that.
Oh, and I told her she also blows up, maybe not as much but certainly more frequently and basically that all my behaviors I took after her. And sure, she agreed it's what she taught me all my life not intensionally but I yelled louder and she doesn't yell. . . . Yes, ma, you yell, you just don't realize it. And it's about the stupidest things at times. Then she admitted she probably doesn't realize she screams when she does.
In a nutshell: I think she kind of understood my thinking but I basically told her the same things I wrote in the mail and she somehow didn't understand. I still don't know if I want to keep meeting with her on weekly basis and if at all. I told her I'd come this Friday but I forgot it's Valentine's and Ash wanted to go to the movies or to just do anything together (we don't really care for Valentine's but hell, it's a nice excuse to spend time together). So I should call or text her that I won't come then. We did agree to talk more about this so I guess maybe some other time.