DEAR CHRISTINE, I AM WRITING to tell you about a certain family that I think needs counselling.
It starts out with a friend of mine who invited me to her house which is rented by her mother and her husband, who is not her father.
She doesn’t like him. In fact, she has no respect for her mother and the man she is married to. She has a brother living there who also has no respect for his stepfather.
There is a lot in that house which I don’t like. Someone in another part of the district called and told me to stop going there.
The reason I go to their house is because I liked a guy who doesn’t live too far from them. So when I was invited to their house, I went so that my male friend could visit.
I could go to his house, but not to sleep there, because my friend respects his parents’ home.
Every morning my friend’s mother gets up, cooks, sweeps the house, cleans the bathroom and takes out the garbage, while her two children are at home and they don’t do anything. Also, my friend’s bedroom is in a horrible state.
– DISGUSTED
Dear Disgusted,
All you’ve said is like the pot telling the kettle his bottom is black. Except for that woman keeping her house tidy, I can find nothing to praise. I am truly sorry for the husband who must live in an environment which, to put it mildly, seems crude in every sense of the word. And what are you doing there?
Accommodating your lover who respects his mother’s home and will not take you there for sex? Have you no regard for yourself?
It is also said “birds of a feather flock together” so it seems that despite all the bad things you’ve pointed out to me, you still stay with them.
Pointing out the faults of others does not make you blameless.
– CHRISTINE
