My brother hasn’t talked to me for over 3 weeks. Not a word. If I fully directed a question to him, he would continue what he was doing as if I hadn’t even entered the room.
And as I’m sure a lot of you have felt and known, being ignored fucking sucks.
He’ll come through the front door and I’ll grin over to him, about to yell out a greeting with an obscenity after it (a thing we siblings do in this family), but he’ll walk straight past me. I wouldn’t give it a thought if he ignored all of us, since he usually is a bit of a grumpy-git after work, but as he’ll walk past me he’ll go up to the rest of the family and start chatting with them, joking and acting normal. Great, super, splendid! Just what I need!
You know what annoys me the most about all of this? All this ignoring, all this blatant, immature silent treatment is because he found out I took one of his phones. It wasn’t even his in the first place! He steals things from complete strangers and expects everyone to respect his “property” after it falls into his hands; So, a few years ago I had taken his phone in retaliation because he was being, to put into simple words, a fucking jack ass douche. He had yelled insults at me, made fun of me, read personal things of mine and laughed at it right in front of my face etc.etc. I thought taking his phone would be reasonable enough.
(And I guess I did a good job of hiding it, since it took him 4 years to find out that I was the one who had it.)
I got home, saw him angrily storm out, and I knew what had been done.
And thus started the tyrant of “‘I’m going to ignore my younger sister for taking one of my phones despite me stealing countless things of hers'”. Also, it just goes to prove that I need a key for my room, since apparently he goes into my room often and snags things of mine.
Thanks big bro’!
~Side note~ I’m pretty sure he reads my journal, so I may or may not have told him to ‘Kindly take his head out of his ass and out of my room’
🙂
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what a wanker, if he’s got more than one phone then what does it matter? My older brothers the same, once he had this car i wanted to buy off him and he told me i could have it for $5 grand… Rip off… He ended up selling it to a stranger for $3 grand. Now i just don’t talk to him or see him… Its been 8 years now 🙂
You should be the one to ignore him for what he has done.
Wow, if someone invaded and disrespected my privacy i would be so angry with them.
Why aren’t YOU giving HIM the cold shoulder?
I realise that two wrongs don’t make a right but it seems like you’re the only one that has merit to be angry.
I did get angry with him, but being angry at someone who isn’t even looking at you is like yelling at a rock to move. I don’t mind though, revenge is sure to come! Mwahuahauhaaa.
Do you want to be in the right, vindicated or do you want to have peace? We all do shit to each other. It’s all good. Do you realize how much energy your bros. is expending by purposely ignoring you, & how much energy you’re expending by trying to get his attention? It’s hilarious the dynamic going on.
What would happen if you accepted his behaviour as it only has to do with him & not you because you’ve attempted to make a gesture of connection & he wants to play his game?! Play along like everything is normal. Why allow yourself to feel ignored…where is your self esteem? (This is encouragement, not criticism…I’m cheering for you here!) You’ll find in a short while, he’ll give up his game & your interaction will return to normal…your happiness or whatever is not dependent on anyone’s behaviour…good or bad, your happiness is dependent on how you choose to feel and what you know is best for you. Many people wouldn’t have anything to do with that kind of behaviour from someone & continue on in their own merry way. So why not do that. 3 weeks, 3 months, 3 years…who cares. You’ll find in a short while he’ll cave in & make a gesture towards you…then you can punch him out & tell him to quit acting like a wanker…Cheers!
I suppose it depends how close you are to your brother. I’m guessing pretty close. In his eyes you probably did something he didn’t like. Not trying to accuse you of anything but that’s likley what he thinks,
I’ll agree with the methods mentioned above. To act as everything is normal or give him the cold shoulder. He will eventually get fed up of this and speak his mind.
Take Care
No no it’s okay, I know I did something he didn’t like. But thank you!
Good Luck with the revenge! Try not to go overboard!