When Family Isn’t Family

     The brother gets married tomorrow, I suppose 3 times is the charm? We won’t be attending. He has basically ignored me the last 5 years, made promises that weren’t kept, I can handle that, I’m a big boy. What I can’t excuse is what he did to the wife. Her dad died a year and a half ago, because we didn’t call and invite him to the viewing and funeral, he didn’t come. Keep in mind we can just about see his house from ours, travel was not an issue. It was in the paper, we put it on Facebook, hell, my aunt and uncle are in their 80’s and made the trip from Harrisburg!  That’s not even the worst part. I sent him a text the evening of the funeral questioning why he wasn’t there, that’s when he told me he didn’t know the details, we didn’t send them to him. That’s when it happened. He told me, and the wife, on the evening of her fathers funeral, each via text, never to contact him again. I sent him a text about a year ago when my nephew was hospitalized asking if he was ok, he replied yes, nothing else. He knows nothing about what’s going on here, where I am in my slide. I don’t know about you but I think it took incredibly huge balls to even invite me!