The more you’re surrounded by entitled family members who couldn’t care less about you or your life milestones, the more you’re desensitized to it. Even still, you’d hope that your parents, aunts, and uncles can pull it together for one day to honor your academic achievements, which are no easy feat. They’ll likely fail miserably, and that will be your last straw. Instead of continuing to expect anything from them, you accept defeat and retreat back into your bubble, safe from their disappointing behavior. At the end of the day, this is the healthiest place for you to be.

In this next story, a 23-year-old explains that some family members are visiting her from abroad to attend her graduation ceremony. Instead of spending time celebrating her and her achievements, they instead boss her around and ignore her. They even left her graduation early, claiming they were hungry, even though she warned them to eat before the ceremony began. Now, the 23-year-old is refusing to visit them where they live, but her father is caught in the crossfire. Scroll to read.