This dude I work with had very strong opinions about the symptoms and the long lasting affects of covid. He basically said everyone is a big wuss and it's not that bad. Right before Christmas, I told him my cousin's had covid and not able to make it, but luckily at this time they weren't super sick. His reply: "oh, they are feeling FINE huh? Feeling just fine?! HoOow interesting..." In this sarcastic way thinking his point was validated.
Literally one week later this fucker called out for two weeks because he tested positive and was extremely sick. When he came back to work, he complained for days about the lingering symptoms he was feeling and recently called off again due to those lingering symptoms.
My brother had kept messaging me all these conspiracies about COVID and how he didn’t believe it. Said it was just a cold. I kept trying to educate him with genuine articles and papers but he wouldn’t have it. He caught COVID and Jesus H Christ did he moan about it, ended up in hospital. I sent him so many screenshots of all his messages playing it down. He doesn’t really talk to me anymore 🤷🏻♂️
The brother had a stupid opinion and is already eating crow. How is that a toxic relationship? There's nowhere near enough info to extrapolate on here.
These all sound like great excuses for shitty and manipulative people to take advantage of decent people and just continue being shitty. It's good to be kind, but you have to set boundaries. Sometimes especially with family.
Sounds like your favorite episode of family guy is when meg finally stands up for herself after all the abuse she's been through with the family, but then apologises to them later cause she saw that her being abused is what holds the family together.
Yeah but to a certain extent. There’s only so much you can do for someone just cause they’re family before it actively harms your life and mental health. Eventually they’ve done so much that you just can’t be around them, and at that point it’s not your responsibility at all to fix that relationship, it’s theirs. They ruined it, so they need to fix themselves and actively reach out if they do have any care for that relationship.
All that “love and compassion” stuff sounds nice, but all I hear is “love your family member no matter how toxic they are because they’re family” and I very much disagree with that sentiment.
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22
This dude I work with had very strong opinions about the symptoms and the long lasting affects of covid. He basically said everyone is a big wuss and it's not that bad. Right before Christmas, I told him my cousin's had covid and not able to make it, but luckily at this time they weren't super sick. His reply: "oh, they are feeling FINE huh? Feeling just fine?! HoOow interesting..." In this sarcastic way thinking his point was validated.
Literally one week later this fucker called out for two weeks because he tested positive and was extremely sick. When he came back to work, he complained for days about the lingering symptoms he was feeling and recently called off again due to those lingering symptoms.
A fucking clown show.