Emotional and/or physical isolation from family is hard to deal with. As a kid, you realize your parents don’t try nearly as hard to foster a healthy, meaningful relationship with you as they do with your other siblings—favoritism at its finest. You hope that one day this will not be your reality and you’ll look back and chuckle at how wrong you were about your parents and the supposed «golden child«. Sometimes, that’s what happens–it was a childish thought that never actually came to fruition. Other times, 10-year-old-you was exactly correct.

The user who posted this story explains that she always loved Christmas. Her family did not share the same sentiment, despite her begging for them to celebrate and stop being Scrooges for the sake of her and her sibling. The user also expresses discomfort with her mother, who she writes, «has spent most of my life doing everything she can to tear» her down. As a result, the woman has been no-contact with her mom for three years.

After the woman finds out that her mother, father, and brother celebrated Christmas together last year (without telling her,) she nearly lost it. Instead of rewriting the narrative this Christmas, they do the same exact thing—but this time, rub it in her face.