Ried Rants

You know that family is supposed to be there for you to support your and help you feel better when you are down. Sometimes they fall so incredibly short of that. Making you feel even worse than you did before you contacted them to get some moral support or advice.

Why does this happen?  Is it in the bylaws of the blood relationship of all families. Does it say to verbally beat down your relatives when they are already down?  Can it be that we all get so sucked in to our own mire that we can do nothing else but to be the naysayer and verbalize the worst possible case scenario?

Why can’t we just listen and nod, support and console? Oh maybe that is because we have to pay someone with a therapy degree to listen to us and do nothing more that provide an expensive sounding board for us to solve our own problems and be there for ourselves in time of crisis.