Cather

Well, back when that guy was young such an age difference didn't have the same meaning. It's also possible the old fool is going senile. I think the slap in the face probably did it - that's how woman have been handling these situations for centuries, before the courts got involved. Had he hit you, tried to hold you or chase you, I'd say give it to him in court, but right now, it's just a silly old man who got what was coming to him from a young woman. If he's not senile, his ego is likely so damaged he will die of shame. Cather

This sounds like BOTH sides of my family and my mother is just as bad. She drinks and used to invite me to her house just to insult and humiliate me in front of her drunken friends. That started when I was about 7 and ended when I changed my phone number and didn't give her the new one at 22. The entire family still does it. I'm not a loser - unlike ANY OTHER family member I have a university degree, none of them even went to high school. I am not on welfare and in fact own a home in one of the nicest areas in our city. I am very successful in my career and was a writer for a major newspaper for years and now run a prepress company. I take trips (Italy, Scotland, Brazil, etc.) and what do they do now?? Well, there's little they can say about what a loser I am anymore or what a loser I will become, now they say I've becom a snob. I don't know...if using a napkin instead of a sleeve, paying a mortgage instead of living in welfare housing and being married to my children's father instead of have 4 kids by 4 different men makes me a snob, so be it. I left that group years ago and it was one of the BEST DECISIONS I ever made. DUMP your loser family. They're just trying to pull you down as low as they are. Consider them faulty DNA. Cather