Oh goodness… My Uncle has been up to some WIERD WIERD stuff. (Frankly, I’d provide news links, because its been a pretty big story elsewhere in the US… but its emberassing just to be associated with him. I’M SO SORRY SAN DIEGO!!)
Anyway… we’ve known he was crazy for a long time, but it seems it is finally catching up with him. He seems about to spend a long period of time in jail. Now I’ve had other relatives end up in jail and have bad things, but this is the first time I’ve ever decided I’m going to completely disassociate myself with somebody.
The problem is-- besides my dad (who never liked him, it’s my mom’s brother) nobody else in my family is really willing to do this. I guess, I’m posting this because I’m curious about others who have been in a similar position. Do you find you have to stay away from family gatherings? What kind of problems did you not forsee? (Because I probably can’t see them either.) I don’t want any trips down to San Diego to be spoiled because he stopped by my Aunt’s place while I was there… any advice out there? Any advice for convincing my mom to do the same thing?
Frankly, I no longer live in the city. So avoiding him in general will be easy. Delete emails w/o reading, don’t call, etc. But I don’t want to not ever go down to see family ever again… Plus, I don’t want to cut off ties with the cousin. Am I being harsh?
I don’t know… I’m just down about the whole thing. I want to pick my family and have cool people instead… Well, I’m rambling. This had a clearer point in my mind when I started, but I’m going to post it anyway. Maybe somebody will understand it and see what I’m trying to ask…