I am stressed to the maximum.My exams are going terribly.It's not all doom and gloom though because I can repeat them in August,so it isn't as if everything is lost.But it seems as though everyone around me thinks it is.Well actually not everyone.Just my family.
My exams seems to be the business of Mam,Dad, my sister and brother.Each one of them has a different take on them and what I am doing, and I honestly wish they would just mind their own business.It is nice that they care to call and ask how they are going,but I don't really want their input or two cents on them.They aren't helping.I politly told them so and they preceeded to lecture me anyways.So I then told them more clearly to just leave me alone.But it has no been turned into the latest family debate/hot topic.
My sister and brother generally don't get along,but they have united over this to blame my mother for my current situation for making me work too many hours at my job.They also call me multiple times a day to see how things are.After which I always feel terrible because they go on and on over the exams and force me to analyze them.My mam has said it's ok if I do bad that she knows I will do whatever I have to, to get myself sorted and has been incredibly nice to me.Which I can't help but feel is a knee jerk reaction to my brother and sister upsetting me so much.They are against her so she needs me on her side.Then there is my dad.He stays quiet much of the time but leans towards my bro and sisters opinion on things.
It feels like there is a power struggle going on around me for my life.Everyone thinks they know best and I want their help.Everyone has completely overlooked the fact I am an adult,I can sort out my own stuff, and I have asked for nobodies help or opinion.
As the youngest in the family am I doomed to this type of behaviour because evryone forgot I grew up?
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Yes you are doomed. Sorry,
Yes you are doomed. Sorry, from older siblings everywhere you will always be the baby and will almost certainly be relentlessly henpecked and protected (whether you want it or not) mostly in equal measure.
Me and my two sisters do it to my brother now and will probably never stop. My mother has only recently escaped her position of baby of the family (despite her four children and being in her 40s) and that's only because of a string of family crisis she's managed.
And my grandmother still bosses/ knows what's best for her sisters and they're all in their 70s.
But at least they all still talk to each other and aren't estranged (as in my dad's family).
Families are mental. Even the good ones. The closer you are to them (geograpically and emotionally) the more infuriating and important they are.
Good luck with the exams (and the siblings)!
Haha thanks lol-taire,I
Haha thanks lol-taire,I guess I am doomed :o
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent-Eleanor Roosevelt
Hmm...
If everyone knows enough to weigh in on this stuff, then you are giving them too much enough information so they can join in.
Help is nice, but seems like they are a bit late. Should have been on your case before you were failing, no? :-)
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