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Forever Empress E
My daughter posted on my Facebook a link to the information the WBC has on their website about why John 3:16 doesn't mean what most Christians thinks it means. My daughter also posted something about our going to join the counter protesters group this past Sunday.
My oldest niece - who is married to a Pentacostal preacher - started preaching at us about being sure we are protesting the right way and for the right reasons and on, and on, and on. "You shouldn't go to just have a party or for the wrong reasons...."
After four such posts, each one worse than the one before, I told her I was going to party, to hold up my sign in response to the WBC's signs, to practice my rights to free speech and to assemble and that, thanks anyway, but I didn't need her approval or permission.
So, she posted a HUGE rant about how unChristian I am, how she is the smartest thing that was ever born, that she is a preacher's wife and knows better than me about anything, blah, blah, blah.
A friend of mine, whom my niece does not know, posted something short about how she needed to check her medications and he asked me where I knew "that girl" from.
I thought that was funny and "liked" his post and LOL'd and answered "that girl" is my niece and that she meant well.
Well, that set a match to a bigger explosion.
She wrote:
I told her to never contact me again. I put up with that shit for years out of her mother, who was crazy as a loon but I know why she was crazy.
Then, my niece sent me this message on FB before I could unfriend her:
Then, she sent my daughter an email saying that she has been meaning to tell me off for six years because her middle sister told her that I had said something inappropriate or mean or something - she wouldn't say what - at their mother's deathbed six years ago. Now, my sister and I very rarely got along. That woman was evil to me growing up and not much better to me when we were adults. She had lots of rage and took it out on me. Still, she was my sister and there is barely a day goes by that I don't think it is about time she calls me and acts like nothing ever happened - which is what she always did. I miss her even though I know we'd get into a fight pretty soon and I'd have to tell her to go away and stay away.
In a way I feel like I should get on a plane and go to North Carolina and tell that girl and her sister what for. She isn't smart enough to know that not fighting is not a sign of weakness. It takes a lot of strength to not beat up a mental midget when they so deserve it. However, it looks like she wants to continue in her mother's footsteps of abusing me and assuming I will tolerate it. I don't think she understood that when her mother and I weren't talking and seeing one another it was because that is the way I wanted it. My two oldest nieces only contact me when they want something anyway - money, birthday and Christmas presents, baby showers, etc. I can always go out and adopt some nieces who will be appreciative of my generosity and not say mean, hateful things to me. I think that is what I will do. Go out and get me some grandkids and new nieces. I'll keep my youngest niece because she is a true sweetheart. The trick is going to be keeping her out of the middle of this. Not really that hard since she is in Germany where her husband is stationed. She is young mother with two little kids. She doesn't have a whole lot of time or energy left over to cause other people unnecessary grief.
I think my initial reaction to tell her not to contact me again is the right decision after all. I'm just too old to put up with that kind of crap and to young to put up with it the rest of my life.
Now - aren't you sorry you asked? Thanks for asking anyway.
My oldest niece - who is married to a Pentacostal preacher - started preaching at us about being sure we are protesting the right way and for the right reasons and on, and on, and on. "You shouldn't go to just have a party or for the wrong reasons...."
After four such posts, each one worse than the one before, I told her I was going to party, to hold up my sign in response to the WBC's signs, to practice my rights to free speech and to assemble and that, thanks anyway, but I didn't need her approval or permission.
So, she posted a HUGE rant about how unChristian I am, how she is the smartest thing that was ever born, that she is a preacher's wife and knows better than me about anything, blah, blah, blah.
A friend of mine, whom my niece does not know, posted something short about how she needed to check her medications and he asked me where I knew "that girl" from.
I thought that was funny and "liked" his post and LOL'd and answered "that girl" is my niece and that she meant well.
Well, that set a match to a bigger explosion.
She wrote:
I told her to never contact me again. I put up with that shit for years out of her mother, who was crazy as a loon but I know why she was crazy.
Then, my niece sent me this message on FB before I could unfriend her:
Then, she sent my daughter an email saying that she has been meaning to tell me off for six years because her middle sister told her that I had said something inappropriate or mean or something - she wouldn't say what - at their mother's deathbed six years ago. Now, my sister and I very rarely got along. That woman was evil to me growing up and not much better to me when we were adults. She had lots of rage and took it out on me. Still, she was my sister and there is barely a day goes by that I don't think it is about time she calls me and acts like nothing ever happened - which is what she always did. I miss her even though I know we'd get into a fight pretty soon and I'd have to tell her to go away and stay away.
In a way I feel like I should get on a plane and go to North Carolina and tell that girl and her sister what for. She isn't smart enough to know that not fighting is not a sign of weakness. It takes a lot of strength to not beat up a mental midget when they so deserve it. However, it looks like she wants to continue in her mother's footsteps of abusing me and assuming I will tolerate it. I don't think she understood that when her mother and I weren't talking and seeing one another it was because that is the way I wanted it. My two oldest nieces only contact me when they want something anyway - money, birthday and Christmas presents, baby showers, etc. I can always go out and adopt some nieces who will be appreciative of my generosity and not say mean, hateful things to me. I think that is what I will do. Go out and get me some grandkids and new nieces. I'll keep my youngest niece because she is a true sweetheart. The trick is going to be keeping her out of the middle of this. Not really that hard since she is in Germany where her husband is stationed. She is young mother with two little kids. She doesn't have a whole lot of time or energy left over to cause other people unnecessary grief.
I think my initial reaction to tell her not to contact me again is the right decision after all. I'm just too old to put up with that kind of crap and to young to put up with it the rest of my life.
Now - aren't you sorry you asked? Thanks for asking anyway.
