#Family Estrangement.

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[paularoseauthor]

How to Cope with Mis-understanding & Family Estrangement.

In this post, I offer suggestions coping when you are misunderstood and judged unfairly. And for those who are estranged from family, it will help you as well.

When we use the world wide web, be it email or social media, we put ourselves tat risk of unfair judgement. Judgment can cause misunderstanding, and misunderstanding may cause a break in relationships. Accepting that misunderstandings happens all the time, helps me cope with the inescapable judgment toward me. Within relationships, misunderstanding can occur very quickly and catch us…

[flamingpudding]

His son's children

When Alfred looked into the security video of the front gates, he froze for a moment. Taking in the image of the two children there. One was a tall, red haired girl with a teal headband, confident but with a look of wary in her eyes. Behind the girl was a younger boy, black haired and wearing a NASA shirt, appearing to be reluctant like what they were doing was a bad idea. Alfred's stomach dropped just a little when he saw the boy and his familiar features.

A second later worry flitted accross his face, but still, because of protocol, he asked them for their reason for this surprise visit. No one expected any visitors this late, and Alfred knew if he looked over his shoulder, he would find one of the children snooping, trying to find out who their visitor could be.

Yet when he heard the girls request to see him, not Bruce Wayne, but him, Alfred Pennyworth, his stomach dropped even more. Knowing now for sure that he hadn't seen wrong with the boy's features. He buzzed them in, while his mind remembered old cherished memories of two you black haired toddlers playing together, growing up together until that one day. When he chose to stay and his significant other chose to leave. Sometimes, he wondered if Bruce still remembered the one that could have been a brother to him if things had gone different.

He doesn't regret his decision, but when he looked at the two worn-out children, no his own grandchildren, before him he mourned the fact that he had let his own son become astranged from him and Bruce. Having believed it to be the best with what Bruce had started to get up to.

But maybe it wasn't to late to make amends he thought as the young girl, clearly of the same vibes as Richard, like someone who had grown up to fast and taking on responsibilities that shouldn't be theirs, tried to explain that they won't call him grandpa if it made him uncomfortable and that they would only need a place to stay for a couple of days before they could move on.

Alfred's heart broke for them as he listened to the girls, Jasmine's hurried explanation.

During her explanation, he studied them more closely. Marveling at how much the boy, Daniel, looked like him when he had been younger. But also noticing the clear signs of injury he was trying to hide. He suppressed a huff, years of taking care of his reckless charges and other grandchildren, and their wounds had made him an expert in spotting these things. But it also gave him a sickening feeling. The injuries Daniel tried to hide did not appear like your average kind of injuries.

They were going to stay, Alfred would make sure of it and he would also let Bruce know of his findings. There was clearly more to his grandchildren sudden appearance than Jasmin was willing to explain.

Whatever endangered his grandchildren from his own estranged son. He would ensure that nothing would hurt them ever again.

His granddaughter did not need to list reasons to convince him to let them stay for a couple of days. And his grandson did not need to look this cautious and wary of him like someone was going to attack him any second.

Alfred was going to give them a home if his son couldn't. And if Bruce had a problem with it, he could take it up with his children. Clearly, if he looked over his shoulder at the noisy little ones, all of his other grandchildren could see that these two before him needed a home to stay.

Besides from the looks of it, they would fit right in with this family.

[chaoticace2005]

The reactions to Chaggie in these episodes really do show the different ways some families react to someone coming out

Charlie’s (estranged, not super close) Dad: YOU LIKE GIRLS?! THANK GOD! WE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON- hahahaha

Vaggie’s ex-family that literally hurt her and kicked her to the curb: Disgusting. Can’t believe she likes you, you worthless piece of shit. You better betray her or we’ll reveal stuff about your past.

[nenoname]

stan spending their childhood trying to make ford's polydactyly something positive in ford's life and genuinely believing its super cool....

[friendlyengie]

uhmm maybe scout and spy just chillin?

He’s got that “didn’t mean to get invested in whatever dumb show you put on but now he can’t stop watching” dad pose going on

[simcardiac-arrested]

like tree, like apple

[dragonpyre]

Thoughts on the Malones?

Every batkid/batfam member has a Malone identity. No Bruce did not approve them. The kids absolutely abuse the shit out of it

Bruce will never know peace

[tricoufamily]

kit and willoughby book side characaters kit and willoguhby book side charactesr

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

Steve Carell was my estranged father and that he’d just won an Oscar for playing Michael Scott in the Office. I was at there to congratulate him, so I followed him when he got backstage in my PJs and was like hey dad, congrats. He’s like thanks kiddo, let’s have dinner some day but he was super dismissive so I got angry and now I’m looking for revenge. In this realm, Steve is the founder of Tesla so to get my revenge, I go around town absolutely trashing all the Teslas I see. I never hear from him again.

[loreartisan]

Gonna ramble about the assassin sons of Frank Harkness because I need to organize my thoughts about the sibling patterns.

Spoilers below:

So we have four boys here. They're no teenage mutant ninja turtles, however, they're a bunch of grown messed up European assassins. We have Patrice, Bertrand, River, and Yves.

Patrice gives off the energy of eldest brother who has a lot of pressure from the father, but has managed to cope with those responsibilities and has ended up thriving the most. Bertrand seems like the second oldest, who has the potential to be as good as his older brother, but is way too hotheaded (evidence: he often gets into trouble in the town near Les Arbres) and overconfident (he'd be like the Raphael to Patrice's Leonardo). River reads as second youngest to me, partially because he obviously looks similar to Bertrand and would come after him, but he's slightly more careful and caring. If River was raised by Frank Harkness, I think he'd end up quite similar to Patrice, only River would likely question and complain about their murderous upbringing and motives (I say this because River is way too nice to be an MI5 agent despite being set up by his grandfather, so he's definitely way too nice to be an assassin). And finally Yves, who seems to be the neglected/abused youngest sibling who is super bitter to his father and wants to spite him.

I feel like (if all of these guys were raised together) Patrice and River would get along well as the responsible, competent brothers, while Bertrand and Yves would get along as the troublemaking, carefree duo.

Usually I would think that Yves would be the most estranged and bullied as the youngest (which is kind of why he decided to mess up Frank Harkness' plans with the bombing of Westacres. Less of a 'Oh I don't know if we should take this job' and more of a 'I hate you dad good luck explaining this to our clients'). But since River was whisked away and never got raised by Frank, it seems that if he ended up meeting all his brothers, they would probably unite to bully him.

Ah, I love complicated family shenanigans in stories. 🙂‍↕️ (This is probably why River Cartwright is my fave character in Slow Horses)

[neverkayzat]

Sometimes, a family is the king of Hollow Earth, an estranged ape child that got adopted, and an ancient Titan able to create the ice age. Also their entire army of apes.

[mohntilyet]

let me be clear i like veilguard but it does suck that no one disapproves anymore outside of like. three choices. i want to be fighting for my life earning approval back again someone has GOT to hate my ass. i should be careful about party composition and companion reactions again. i miss tactically taking fenris out of the party before i'm nice to merrill like those were the days

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