Thread: Your family puts you in a corner.

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

Considering all things in life go well, your sister is going to out live your mom.

I mean, for real.....one day.....maybe a few hours after you have a kid of your own...maybe even before it's born...you're going to come back, and read this, and be ashamed of yourself.

Like that other thread....you better go hug your momma, right now.

Its a double sided coin. One is in regard to loyalty and the other in trust and confidence that your sister has placed in you.

If you sister is under the 18 of let your mom and handle but maybe assure she is ok.

If she is over the age of 18 then let your sister and mom duke it out and stand out the line of fire.

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

Considering all things in life go well, your sister is going to out live your mom.

a typical answer from someone that's not married, planing to have children, or most especially HAS children.

If your mom is asking you for help, then your loyalty is to your mom, and deferring to her judgement. This isn't about you doing what you're told. This is about you looking at the situation, realizing that your mom has a resume in this area of skill, and helping her do something she's asked you to do.

Do you make the situation worse? Try not to. Is your mom going to sell you out or use you as a weapon against your sister? Who knows. But at the end of the day, if you don't beleive your mother is trying to do what's best for her own daughter, you, and everyone else in your family....then you have MUCH bigger problems. I seriously doubt you know everything abiout your sister. I don't know everything about mine (and I'd like to keep it that way, honestly).

I doubt there is anything a parent ever wants to do less than ask someone for help in raising or getting to know their child. Likely, going to a sibling would be a first choice. But she's not doing it lightly.

of course, this all assumes your mom is acting to right an ACTUAL wrong, and not simply pushing people around because she's a mom and is crazy. That's......tyranny, and no one should have to live under that yoke. And I'm with you on that.

BUT...as you describe....your sister is having some issues, is doing things that aren't good, and requires discipline. So, defer to your mother, who is the EXPERT in this situation, as compared to you, and help. If you're still uncomfortable with it, then sit down with your mother privately (you sound like you are obviously out of the house and independent)....take her to lunch, have some coffee, whatever, and discuss your specific issues about loyalty and honesty, like adults would.

And don't listen to a single person in this thread that has bias against parents for no reason other than because "they're meanies" and they don't think they have ENOUGH privileges, allowance, XBoxes, or WoW time.

And this from the guy who just the other day said I was a "Pussy" for wanting to cook dinner and eat dinner with my mother instead of playing L4D2.

But, for the record, I agree with all BD says here. The only reason, like I said, to not let your mother in on it is if she is just trying to be a control freak. There are mothers out there like that, my Grandmother on my mothers side was like that (which, thankfully, is why my mother turned out so well, because she rebelled against it).

Originally Posted by digital

If she is over the age of 18 then let your sister and mom duke it out and stand out the line of fire.

all depends on the issue at hand.

watch some intervention on A and E, and see what enabling and sitting on the side lines can do.

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

And this from the guy who just the other day said I was a "Pussy" for wanting to cook dinner and eat dinner with my mother instead of playing L4D2.

it was. As I clearly stated, no one should suffer under tyranny. Even the iranians. http://www.texasteamplayers.com/inde...;topicseen#new

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

And this from the guy who just the other day said I was a "Pussy" for wanting to cook dinner and eat dinner with my mother instead of playing L4D2.

it was. As I clearly stated, no one should suffer under tyranny. Even the iranians. http://www.texasteamplayers.com/inde...;topicseen#new

Now there is one point we can completely agree on.

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

And this from the guy who just the other day said I was a "Pussy" for wanting to cook dinner and eat dinner with my mother instead of playing L4D2.

it was. As I clearly stated, no one should suffer under tyranny. Even the iranians. http://www.texasteamplayers.com/inde...;topicseen#new

Which is why we should send in the android army of TF2 soldiers to free them! Although I think, for some odd reason, you'd like the idea better if the androids looked like the people in L4D2.

a C+ in calc?

well...there goes your whole future. Such a disappointment.

I mean, what's next? A felony?