#the King Lear time was bc he got married without telling us and then put his name on the BC of her bby that wasnt his

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Genuinely tho, why is my family the way that it is. (The answer, of course, is generational trauma, what else?)

So last week-ish, my eldest (half) sister sent an email to our dad, and cc'd her kid, our sister and brother (both are also my half siblings), and *my* mom (they've been divorced for about 25 years.) In this email, she compared herself to the Cowardly Lion, my sister to the Tinman, and my brother to the Scarecrow--all trying to earn the love of the Wizard (my dad.) Then she went on a lot about Integrated Family Systems therapy and how my dad needs to do it and oh, she paid for three sessions with HER therapist. It ended with a note about "how do you want to be remembered, dad?"

Anyway, no one replied(or replied-all) to that email, so I figured it was just her being crazy (she does that. She's super hippy/crunchy/anto-science etc.)

But then today, she replied to an email our dad sent her (again cc-ing all the recipients from the first email.) In my dad's email. He threatened to sue her for something to do with "gross negligence and breach of contract" regarding his business venture. Sister said "do what you have to do" but then my brother replied all and essentially: "you do it and I won't help you going forward. Also think what Buddha would do?" (I should note, my dad's a Buddhist monk. Also he's 87)

So anyway, everything is imploding and the last time this happened (which was also mostly about money) my dad compared himself to King Lear and me to Cordelia so I'm just waiting for another one of those emails from him.