My Messed Up Life
I'm a single man in my early 30s I've got a brother who's 29
and he's already got four kids now he had his first at 22 and the second followed a year later then the third 2 years after that and the fourth is the most recently born a couple months ago his wife my Sister in law and I do not get along as
she always likes to try and get a rise out of me by acting Superior then then turns into an extreme self- victimizing
drama queen if I retaliate against her in any way she can cry in an instant and can put on an extremely convincing show
to get sympathy from just about anyone my parents and brother absolutely adore her even though they know exactly how
she really is and just don't care she's very good-looking I'll give her that but she's so awful that I could never be
attracted to her she also refuses to get any sort of job even though she has a college degree and my mother willingly
helps with the kids all day so their finances are entirely dependent on my brother this also means they can't
afford to live anywhere but my parents house and privacy is a bit of an issue with all of them Under One Roof in a three-bedroom house that was built in
the' 60s growing up my younger brother was
also the obvious favorite we're 3 years apart in age but he developed a
superiority complex because I was badly punished if I retaliated against his Antics in any way back then it was
obvious my parents cared for him a lot more because he got the Lion Share of everything unless people called him out on it which did happen a fair bit by
other members of family which is why my parents packed us all up and moved us about 150 Mi away away from them so they
generally only would only see us on holidays since it was a 3-hour drive my brother got physically abusive towards
me on a number of occasions flirted relentlessly with my first girlfriend to the point she broke up with me and laughed at any Misfortune I had and my
parents just told me to suck it up whenever I was upset about it I only got equal treatment when my parents wanted to keep up appearances I admit it was
rather funny to see the looks on their faces whenever they had to treat me equal to my brother on birthdays and Christmas because other people were present we had relatives that were very nosy and loved gossiping drama so my parents did their best to hide what was
really going on and threatened to take all my stuff away if I didn't keep my mouth shut if anything it just made my
parents celebrate more when I turned 18 and moved out because it meant they no longer had to provide for me I wasn't
even done with high school yet when I moved out but couch surfing was far better than living with them I was low
contact ever since leaving home they didn't even show up for my high school graduation but I really didn't care from
that point on I would usually only see my parents and brother on holidays like the rest of the family the start 20
pandemic was not kind to me I lost my job and couldn't renew the lease on by the condo because my roommate also lost
his job and neither of I us could afford the place on unemployment money it was a rented two-bedroom condo that I really
loved as the lease was ending my roommate left early to move back in with relatives and I
had to sell nearly all
of my stuff because I was soon going to be homeless if I didn't downsize to an extreme I really shouldn't have rented a
place that was so expensive but I liked living the high life until that life wasn't kind to me and I realized I
should have been living somewhere far cheaper so I could have saved more money to fall back on but I had a plan I own a
truck simply for the fact that I've always loved trucks so I found a $1,000 camper in good shape and put it on my
truck just so I could live out of it for a while it was supposed to be temporary but I ended up living out of it far
longer than I ever thought I originally was hoping to be able to live out of the camper at my parents house where my
brother and his family still reside as well but when I asked my parents to let me stay for a while they told me they
had a full house and didn't want me there plus we hadn't exactly gotten along in the past decade they said
they'd only agree to let me park my camper
there if I paid them basically what it would cost to rent an apartment in my area that was way too much just to
park my camper I was jobless and trying to save as much of my unemployment money as I could till I could find a new job I
may as well be living in an apartment with that rent price they were asking my parents called my camper and isore and
told me to take a hike since we couldn't come to an agreement and Sil thought it was absolutely hilarious I had to live in a camper my brother joined her in
pointing at and mocking me while calling me a homeless bum I parked my truck SL camper in a*****e parking lot to sleep
on the first night that I had nowhere else to go I felt scared out of my mind that someone might try to break in
suffice to say I didn't sleep well that night there was nowhere else I could go as any other relatives that own houses
were fairly far away and all my friends were all apartment people and I was pretty attached to my area as well so I
didn't want to just leave I'd also had my mail forwarded to a friend's apartment it was the
only way I could still get my mail anymore finding a
stable place to park was pretty difficult I went looking around to try and find a job similar to my old old one
it took months of living the nomadic camper life in that time I had to deal with a lot everything from Beggars and
drug addicts to people demanding I leave because my camper was an eyesore at one point someone who told me to move claim
to be within HOA I wasn't even parked on a street with houses and when I questioned what HOA they got incredibly
belligerent and threatened me I moved my camper anyway just to avoid the trouble in order to have a steady supply of
electricity I learned to use a long extension cord to plug in anywhere I could to recharge my camper batteries
this meant sneak around and plugging it into an outside Outlet of a random building while parked on a street I know
that's a crummy thing to do but I had to keep my batteries charged so my refrigerator would stay cold I had a small solar power bag for recharging my phone but I didn't have anything like a generator and generators are noisy and
require fuel anyway so I did what I had to do after months of living like that I finally managed to get a new job I had
to move to the neighboring City to find a job that didn't involve retail I worked retail while in college and promised myself never again though I was
nearly ready to break that promise I was still getting unemployment money but I had no stable place to live while
receiving it and I didn't want to still be jobless when it ran out plus I was bored out of my mind I had little else
to do but read watch movies on a small portable DVD player use my phone or laptop and keep note of where I could
park and what local public bathrooms I could use I kind of envy that the Japanese have public bath houses we
could really use stuff like that over here when I finally landed a new job I practically lived in the back lot of the
building by the warehouse in old employeeparking spaces literally no one else seemed to bother using because they were so far in the back that the area
was borderline forgotten my boss / compan owner actually liked this Arrangement because I was willingly available to take any shift I could get
so long as I had enough sleep he even let me take the camper off my truck and set it up in one of the spaces so I
could drive around without it not exactly sure if this was legal but no one bothered us about it the entire time
I lived back there I didn't have to deal with many trespassers there were a few but the security guards escorted them
out I was pretty much on call almost all the time when they needed me and was working virtually every day of the week
my boss let me plug my camper into the building for power and water and I paid a small amount of rent by working for
free on Sundays when no one else was in the office but the janitor and security guard beyond that I usually had to
shower at a friend's apartment or at my local gym as the camper didn't have a shower in it and only a portable toilet
and I didn't want to fill it because emptying it is a nasty chore so I used other bathrooms as often as I could I
had a key to the warehouse and could go in to use the bathroom there at any hour I was even on a first name basis with
the night security guard he's since become one of my closest friends the camper was easy to heat in the winter
with a small electric heater Summers were not fun though the camper didn't have AC so I had to get a used portable
air conditioner just to make it bearable I made a lot of overtime pay and hands- on learned some new skills from other
employees eventually Midway into this year I landed a better position in the company as a supervisor and started
making a better salary than my old job that's when I decided I wanted a house the scare I'd gotten from losing my
condo made me realize I I needed something much more stable for the long term I looked around for something close
to my work and just 2 miles away found a three-bedroom manufactured home on a small property but I managed to get it
for $10,000 less than the asking price somehow I used nearly my entire savings for a down payment and got approved for
a home loan I finally didn't have to live in a camper anymore there was enough space for me to back my truck in
behind the house to take the camper off to set it up in the backyard so I put it there as its own little building just in
case I want to use it again when I was fully settled in the house I was dumb enough to brag about it on my book of
faces my family saw the post and that's where this f*****g problems really starts after a few weeks my parents and brother along
with his family came to visit completely unannounced to have a tour of my home I didn't even give them my address so how
they found out where I live I still don't know none of my friends have fessed up and no prior family members
visited me before that so I wonder if they stalked me at work and followed me home or something it really wouldn't surprise me once I opened the door they practically all shoved their way in like rambunctious tourists then just started
making themselves at home they all kept poking around and Sil had this creepy smirk that she was repeatedly flushing
me and it was only later that I figured out why and it made me matter than a bull on steroids that just got stung by
a Hornet my parents were constantly talking about how I've got so much extra space now and it's too much for someone
like me who has no wife or kids sure not now but maybe someday and my brother
kept remarking about how there was more space than our parents house and my house was closer to his job too red
flags all around I know eventually my brother asked me to speak privately everyone else suddenly left
the room and piled out onto the front porch That's What finally made me realize they plan something my brother
let's call him Dan for the sake of Simplicity said the house was too much for me alone and I should let him move in with his family because his wife is pregnant with kid number four and my house is much closer to his job he
pointed out that I already have the camper so I could just live in that outside while they live in the main house and I'd like to point out that Dan
never once spoke of offering rent mind you he's got a good job he also started talking about how there would be changes
and even curfews and that I couldn't just walk in at any time without prior notice if it weren't my brother I'd
think the person I was talking to had lost their mind but Dan lost his marbles long ago thanks to our parents treating
him like he was the center of the world I tried to speak but he kept talking over me as if I had no say in the matter
there was no way in hell I'd rent my house or parts of my house to him other people maybe just so I can pay the
mortgage off more easily but certainly not him or his nasty wife I've heard of this EX kind of situation in videos
online many times and never once did I think I'd actually live it because I thought it so ludicrous but my parents
brother and Sil do all fit the bill for a bunch of narcissistic entitled crazies so I picked up my phone and set it to
start recording then just held on to it Dan didn't even seem to care or notice that I'd done this and just sat there
with his arms waving around while talking about all the reasons of why he needed my house then went from saying that to acting like it was a done deal more kids and has to keep living with our parents because he can't afford to move out Dan got as physically close to
me as he could without actually touching me and said that I didn't deserve the house and he needed a better place for his family to live I laughed back in his
face and said they were total Fu#Ks because I worked hard to be able to buy my house of course I deserved it Dan
started yelling that I have no wife or kids and I don't need all the space so I may as well give it to him I said I'm
not giving him anything and he never even offered to pay me rent if I let him move in I'd still be covering the entire
mortgage on my own house without even being able to live in my own house then Dan told me that he shouldn't have to
pay rent because his family comes first and our parents said I was going to do this and that I will I yelled as if
their word was law or something and told Dan that they did not have the right or power to give my house to him then right
one Question my parents and Sil barged back in through the front door and surrounded me to try and force me to agree there was a
lot of fighting but to sum it up from this point on I heard the line just do it for Dan way more times than I can remember in the fight I told them all
they don't have a say in my life or my house and to get out before I called the cops Sil screamed the loudest at me
about how she was pregnant again and I can't do this to her I said I did nothing to her she just assumed she
could take and take from me like I would just allow it I had no obligation to her or her family then I called her a stuck
up bit#h who never had any respect for me so I don't care what she thinks or how many kids she has I have no sympathy
for her she won't be living in my house well that made her angry enough to attack me she got in one good hit on my
face and tried to do more but my brother held her back Kicking and Screaming she kept demanding he let her go so she
could scratch my eyes out the phone I was holding recorded pretty much everything so I held it up and said I was going going to call police if they didn't leave right away my parents told Dan they were leaving then my mother
said that I had a week to come to my senses I told her I won't be and to not come back then I told Sil that my phone
recorded everything and if she tries anything I'll press charges for assault she screamed at me and then stormed out
loudly crying with her face in her hands my mother was the last one out the door and said that I better do this for Dan .people can't explain why they make choices like child favoritism so it's all they can do to try and stand by the
child they backed which is exactly what my parents tried to do and I've practically destroyed their lives for it
not in the legal sense but more an emotional one after I kicked my parents brother and S out for trying to force me
to hand over my new house to my brother I immediately went to my social media and told the story to the whole family
it spread pretty fast but you won't find it now because it all got deleted some time ago and I put my own profile on
private I posted about it because I knew that the first thing my family would do when they got home is try to twist the event to make me the villain and I was exactly right but I had about an hour to get started before them and I had video evidence to back up my story about what
they'd done no I don't plan on showing the video here so don't ask being preemptive worked because I got a fair
number of family members on my side right away my parents brother and Sil must have been all set to write their
own post but it was too late so they didn't even bother trying to lie up much my parents Dan and S had a few flying
monkeys supporting them but not much else plenty of others knew how entitled they already were so what happened was
something they all quickly understood and accepted there was one person in particular that called me I don't know
who they were but they ranted at me that I was a horrible brother and I needed to make way for a real family man I just
ended the call and blocked the number this didn't repeat the week went by and my parents showed up with Dan at my
front porch just like they said they would in their prior ultimatum they rang my doorbell like crazy and also pounded
on the door until I finally answered I opened it just a c***k and they tried to shove their way in again but I'd
installed a couple of latch chains that prevented it and even braced my body against the door for good measure my
father and brother demanded I let them in but I said I was recording everything on camera and would call the police if
they tried to force their way in again my mother calmed them down and then in her most sickly sweet tone asked me if I
was ready to let my brother move in I told her and the rest of them to fu#k off and never come back my mother put on
the crocodile tears and asked me why I came can't just do this for Dan because he's my beloved brother I laughed and then bluntly said I do not love him as a
brother because he treated me like s**t for years and they only encouraged him to do so they are terrible parents and
he is a terrible brother then told them to leave or I'd be calling police ASAP they all left surprisingly easily apart from my mother's loud crying and the others giving me dirty looks one could say making them leave was suspiciously
easy I thought the whole mess was over but I guess I should have taken them more seriously because they had other
stupid plans I came home later that week on Friday evening to find a moving truck and my brother's minivan parked in my
driveway it was Dan and his family they're moving stuff in he just waved to me with a eating grin when I saw
him I was Furious and told him and the rest of his family to stop but Sil smugly said to me that like it or not
they were moving in and then in the most fake way while tilting her head and puckering her lips she said that it was
okay because my mommy allowed it