People like you, my dearest brother, disgust me

My brother’s parents are divorced. We have a lot in common: we’re bother the same age (he’s 2 months and 2 days older than me), we both just graduated within the last month (him: May 22, while I graduated this past Saturday), and we both have a similar situation (his parents are divorced and remarried; my biological parents were never married and my mom married his dad in 1997). The last thing we have in common is also the crucial difference between us – where his dad adopted me when we were 10, his parents divorced and he had a custody agreement made.

My brother has issues with the fact that his dad adopted me. I get the whole fear of being replaced, but hello, I’m female. I can’t work in the shop with Daddy, nor can I do half of the fun stuff that he gets to do (last summer was my first time on a dirt bike. My mom wasn’t home, because both Daddy and I knew she’d be mad). I’m supposed to be interested in makeup and dress-up and boys, not redneckin and riding my neighbor’s dirt bike… But I am, and I think that threatens my brother.

He constantly acts up, or acts stupid. He flipped his truck last year (when I told my mom that he was bragging about it on Myspace, his mother actually had the audacity to call and flip out about it. Legally, if anything had happened to his friend, we could have paid for it, even though he was at his mother’s house), he’s moved out of his mother’s house (legally, he isn’t able to – something about the agreement has him living in his house until he’s 18, which is the end of July, so no college worries), he smokes, he drinks worse than most of the males in our family… He’s spoiled. His mom doesn’t discipline him, and our Daddy won’t…

The excuse for his behavior: he’s the product of a “broken home”. Uh, what? Both of his biological parents are involved in his life. He has two step-parents who care about him, when he’s not shoving the whole, “You’re not my Mom/Dad” card in their faces. He gets anything he wants because his parents are divorced, so everyone feels sorry for him.

Boohoo, your parents aren’t together anymore. At least you can see them. At least you know who your father is.

Fut the suck up, dude. Oh, yeah, your life is absolutely horrible – try not being able to use the divorced parents thing. There goes everything! I have no sympathy for you, Pumpkin, nor do I have sympathy for any child who does the same thing as you.

Ironically, in trying to make yourself a more pitiable person, you’ve only succeeded in shoving away any family that cared about you. Your mom only sees you as a cash cow (Child Support), and your father wants basically nothing to do with you anymore because you’re such a brat.

Perhaps others can learn from your situation, and learn that to be like you is to lose any familial support you once had.