Pandora's Aquarium: My family pisses me off - Pandora's Aquarium

I was thinking about the visit with my step-mom, and it pisses me off. It was fine until she asked me if I had heard from my sister Amy. She started to go off about how she never calls. She made some pretty stupid comments. She actually said, "Your dad wears his heart on his sleeve worried about her, but never talks about her. Do you know that she has not called him or contacted him once since she has moved. It makes me so angry that she does not contact her own father. Your dad does not show it, but it hurts him a great deal." It is such bullshit, I mean what planet is she on?! I believe that she is talking about a different father than mine. What right does she have when she wasn't there, she was not there. I have talked to her a bit about his temper, the violence, so she does have an idea. She has been married to him for 22 years now, so she has to have some idea.

I guess it doesn't matter how shitty he treated my sister though. I wanted so badly to say, yeah, she should contact him, it doesn't matter that he beat the shit out of her, it doesn't matter that he was constantly ridiculing her, telling how she would never amount to anything, it doesn't matter how cruel he was, it is her duty as a child, I guess.

It is like my my step-mom, and mother expect us to be kind, show respect, to go out of our way to make my father happy, no matter how horrible he was to us as children, that we should forget everything that happened, look past it, and be there for him, no matter what. Well, it doesn't work that way. I am sick of the guilt tripping, and if they can't stop, they should shut the hell up.