Making this thread off the back of a comment I left elsewhere recently. I caught up with family over the holidays, and despite loving them and caring for them, at points meeting up can feel like the oppression Olympics. Each try to out complain each other, almost doing this weird thing where they complain, but in the tone of bragging. Like saying who’s running on the least sleep, who’s had to work the most hours that week etc, who’s struggling the most financially currently, it’s super weird. 3 different cousins are seemingly living on a ‘loop’, continuously staying in jobs that they complain about, but then when I ask what they’re going to do about it, they 180 and say the job isn’t that bad. They’ve gone through this cycle for the last 3-4 years, and most of these conversations seem riddled with deflection, and zero accountability. It’s sad because they’re good people with potential, albeit troubled and complicated. Everything seems to be everyone else’s fault but their own, despite repeatedly self-sabotaging behaviours. I’ve had to distance myself a bit, as it’s really bad energy to be around as an adult. submitted by /u/thelaughingman_1991
Originally posted by u/thelaughingman_1991 on r/AskMen