That's true. It is kind of weird. I sort of grew up with this I don't know. My parents aren't horrible or anything. Just...really, really...well, they're a part of the worldview that I wound up rejecting. Mostly, they didn't know what to do with me. The heir they'd wanted came along when they were way too old to really figure out what they were doing and I'm...not like my sisters.
But the punishment part in that case I mention is more...I don't think they can stand each other, honestly. So they know and use it.
That's pretty messed up about your friends. My ex-roommate's kind of the same way but he's legitimately been trying to survive on...he knew very very little of the world when he left home. And is determined not to go back. His grandfather's the extreme version of my parents, you know, seen and not heard stuff, and doesn't like that he has his own opinions so...
The poor thing had no idea what it was like out there. He was functioning based on...I don't even know what he'd read about Romantic Poverty but...
Oh actually the weird is one of the other people I could get in check with. Combeferre and Enjolras (aforementioned other roommate) actually went through with making me invite the guy from the other day for coffee. And we talked about a few things after I apologized and...lo and behold, he gets it. Well, a lot of it.
I think I peg his father instinct. He'd probably come too.
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Date: 2016-05-12 08:02 am (UTC)But the punishment part in that case I mention is more...I don't think they can stand each other, honestly. So they know and use it.
That's pretty messed up about your friends. My ex-roommate's kind of the same way but he's legitimately been trying to survive on...he knew very very little of the world when he left home. And is determined not to go back. His grandfather's the extreme version of my parents, you know, seen and not heard stuff, and doesn't like that he has his own opinions so...
The poor thing had no idea what it was like out there. He was functioning based on...I don't even know what he'd read about Romantic Poverty but...
Oh actually the weird is one of the other people I could get in check with. Combeferre and Enjolras (aforementioned other roommate) actually went through with making me invite the guy from the other day for coffee. And we talked about a few things after I apologized and...lo and behold, he gets it. Well, a lot of it.
I think I peg his father instinct. He'd probably come too.