Family feuds are a complete waste of time. I feel that family should get on or try to get on. There should at least be an effort to set aside differences and work together as a family.
For example, when we were younger my cousin Annie and I always got along and we played together all the time. We used to collect firewood together and would walk to and from school every morning. We even had our babies at the same time.
We were eve so close and I went to her wedding and always had meals at each other’s houses.
But for some unknown reason during the last three years Annie has decided to turn nasty towards me. She won’t even talk to me. I have begged pleaded and asked her for her friendship but to no avail. Annie has received my friendship and I’m gutted.
Yet I forgive her as I think that any suffering from child trauma could have an effect on her. That fact that her uncle was abusing me consistently, and that she caught him in the act once, probably got to her. Perhaps he was abusing her also. Maybe he didn’t stop when I left deadwood and moved to Jamestown.
Both Annie and I suffered abuse at the hands of my grandfather and she suffered from her stepfather.