theslowesthand
Banned
My SA affects even my relationships with my relatives, whom I have known all my life, and so I have always thought that I "SHOULD" be able to trust them (to not reject/etc me).
This goes even for those relatives whom i get along VERY WELL with (or THINK so). I usually see most of them just once per year, at a christmas get-together. But i never even talk to any of them by phone, or even email, for the rest of the year, even though sometimes i would like to. Basically i just don't feel that they really want to talk to me, except at that get-together. My parents see their various relatives throughout the year, but they haven't got SA/etc. I also quite often sometimes feel the same way about my brother.
Maybe I should see them just as PEOPLE first and foremost, who have likes and dislikes, and forget completely about the fact that we're "related" and have known each other since birth - all that seems to be irrelevant anyway.
This goes even for those relatives whom i get along VERY WELL with (or THINK so). I usually see most of them just once per year, at a christmas get-together. But i never even talk to any of them by phone, or even email, for the rest of the year, even though sometimes i would like to. Basically i just don't feel that they really want to talk to me, except at that get-together. My parents see their various relatives throughout the year, but they haven't got SA/etc. I also quite often sometimes feel the same way about my brother.
Maybe I should see them just as PEOPLE first and foremost, who have likes and dislikes, and forget completely about the fact that we're "related" and have known each other since birth - all that seems to be irrelevant anyway.
