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Christmas Day & Family
Dec. 25th, 2019 05:02 pmwell that went well didn't it?
yeah, sarcasm obvs bro.
So my brother lets call him manipulative arsehole git or "Colin" for short has got me e-mail, phone, snail mail addresses. If our niece wants to contact me, he only has to send me a quick e-mail and she can have any contact details she wants.
But no, I get a facebook friend request and an "Are you Uncle Neil?" message. Yes. and a bit of to and froing. I'm not particularly forthcoming but she initiated contact, so i'm really waiting for her to take the lead, so after a bit "are you busy yes or no" A bit abrupt I thought but hey, "No I'm not busy." "What lead you to contact me today" - response "Uncle Colin", my response is to set my boundaries "I'll talk to you on the condition that noting I say is passed to Colin and that he is not given sight of my Facebook page."
I'm then informed that she wont bother me Anymore.
I tel her that she can contact me anytime, although preferably evenings or weekends and that Colin knows that I'm not interested in talking to him.
"OK"
and end of conversation
So obviously I could have handled that better, but I still feel that Colin is manipulating things here and how this contact was made. I'm pretty pissed off by this.
yeah, sarcasm obvs bro.
So my brother lets call him manipulative arsehole git or "Colin" for short has got me e-mail, phone, snail mail addresses. If our niece wants to contact me, he only has to send me a quick e-mail and she can have any contact details she wants.
But no, I get a facebook friend request and an "Are you Uncle Neil?" message. Yes. and a bit of to and froing. I'm not particularly forthcoming but she initiated contact, so i'm really waiting for her to take the lead, so after a bit "are you busy yes or no" A bit abrupt I thought but hey, "No I'm not busy." "What lead you to contact me today" - response "Uncle Colin", my response is to set my boundaries "I'll talk to you on the condition that noting I say is passed to Colin and that he is not given sight of my Facebook page."
I'm then informed that she wont bother me Anymore.
I tel her that she can contact me anytime, although preferably evenings or weekends and that Colin knows that I'm not interested in talking to him.
"OK"
and end of conversation
So obviously I could have handled that better, but I still feel that Colin is manipulating things here and how this contact was made. I'm pretty pissed off by this.
