u/yo_kashlee

Growing up, me and my dad were really close. Then he got married, and after they had kids together, I slowly became the outsider. I got treated differently in ways nobody else seemed to notice.

At 18, I got kicked out while they went on to build their perfect family and life with a new house, cars, luxury clothes, and plenty of family vacations I just recently found out about. Meanwhile, I was struggling, homeless at times, in abusive situations, and learning adulthood completely alone with no support system.

Now I’m almost 30, and I think I’m grieving the family relationships I thought I’d have by this age. My family acts like everything is normal while I feel erased from their lives. I’ve even heard that when they talk about me, they tell my siblings, “you don’t want to end up like yo_kashlee.” They even got rid of any photos of me and threw it in the spare junk room.

I think what hurts most is that a part of me still just wants to feel loved, wanted, and like I belong somewhere. I’m wondering if anyone else has gone through this and how you stopped carrying the sadness from it.

TLDR; My family kicked me out at 18 and living the good life while i suffer and i’m grieving the relationships I thought we would have at almost 30.

Growing up, me and my dad were really close. Then he got married, and after they had kids together, I slowly became the outsider. I got treated differently in ways nobody else seemed to notice.

At 18, I got kicked out while they went on to build their perfect family and life with a new house, cars, luxury clothes, and plenty of family vacations I just recently found out about. Meanwhile, I was struggling, homeless at times, in abusive situations, and learning adulthood completely alone with no support system.

Now I’m almost 30, and I think I’m grieving the family relationships I thought I’d have by this age. My family acts like everything is normal while I feel erased from their lives. I’ve even heard that when they talk about me, they tell my siblings, “you don’t want to end up like yo_kashlee.” They even got rid of any photos of me and threw it in the spare junk room.

I think what hurts most is that a part of me still just wants to feel loved, wanted, and like I belong somewhere. I’m wondering if anyone else has gone through this and how you stopped carrying the sadness from it.

Growing up, me and my dad were really close. Then he got married, and after they had kids together, I slowly became the outsider. I got treated differently in ways nobody else seemed to notice.

At 18, I got kicked out while they went on to build their perfect family and life with a new house, cars, luxury clothes, and plenty of family vacations I just recently found out about. Meanwhile, I was struggling, homeless at times, in abusive situations, and learning adulthood completely alone with no support system.

Now I’m almost 30, and I think I’m grieving the family relationships I thought I’d have by this age. My family acts like everything is normal while I feel erased from their lives. I’ve even heard that when they talk about me, they tell my siblings, “you don’t want to end up like yo_kashlee.” They even got rid of any photos of me and threw it in the spare junk room.

I think what hurts most is that a part of me still just wants to feel loved, wanted, and like I belong somewhere. I’m wondering if anyone else has gone through this and how you stopped carrying the sadness from it.