Letters to my Ex

Your Extended Family

Just like everybody else they were distant from me, it was a roller-coaster, did that surprise me? No it didn't at all. I did not feel welcomed and they never welcomed me anyway... It was like I was forcing so hard to be part of them and I must say I failed dismally...

Did I really care?
No! They were people I saw once in a while so I thought to myself to hell with them. To hell with what they said and thought too, they were just empty drums making unnecessary noise...

Well some were great pretenders and some others just couldn't pretend. If you remember very well I didn't attend much of your family gatherings because I knew I didn't belong...

And I didn't even know some of your family members... Your mother wouldn't formally introduce me to them so I just didn't know them...

Oh by the way your parents gave me a name that they used when they went to your family to gossip and bad mouth me well they called me "matrankis" I don't really know what that means but I think it means skinny...

One of your uncles eventually said it to my face once... With a grin on his face...

Wow all of this was your doing, you let them... You let it happen until it was out of control...

You said you loved me! Why didn't you protect me from all this?

Why?

I guess you the only one who has answers to my endless questions...