Gabriel Mizrahi

She goes on.

This shocked and hurt me deeply, especially because everyone had already accepted our invitation to Christmas at our house.

They claimed Thanksgiving was all ad hoc and there was quote unquote no plan, which was not true.

I expressed my hurt and things deteriorated from there, mainly with my stepmother.

Just to clarify, I never cussed anyone out, stole money, killed anyone, etc.

Not yet.

I just got mad because we were excluded from a major family event after already feeling excluded or insignificant on several occasions.

Good on you for speaking up, I guess.

I don't know, actually.

I think sometimes when you're really hurt, those tiny innocuous things that the person didn't intend can actually sting.

Yeah, you can hurt quite a bit, but maybe she didn't mean it.

Maybe she was an offhand.

I don't know.

It's hard to know sometimes.

But anyway, she goes on.

Since then, I've apologized many, many times for getting upset and agreed to multiple family counseling sessions and meetings.

But in every one of those meetings, my stepmother becomes extremely upset and things escalate to the point that nothing ever resolves and we end up right back where we started.

Never mind.

My stepmother continues to say that she is still hurt without ever being able to clearly name what I did.

beyond tone or perceived disrespect back in 2020 to 2021.