Family obligation guilt: You're Not the Only One

I’m looking at this stupid $2000 espresso machine on the counter and I just want to throw it out the damn window. …

i dont really know if i should even be saying this here because everyone in this town talks and if my boss found out i dont know what he would do because he's like my uncles best friend and they go… …

This is probably stupid but I just need to say it. …

the designated doormat for their entire bloodline? …

Is it just me, or are we all just pretending that "family" isn't a slow-motion car crash of obligation?

I secured the asset and the yard like my parents expected.

I haven't been home in like... …

I’m sitting here in the dark and I just can’t stop thinking about the look on their faces when I said no. …

Sometimes you just wake up at 70 years old and realize you’ve been a professional ATM for half a century. …

ing things for his three brothers while the mom is at the hosptal on the night shift.

I saw him today—that man who spent twenty years breaking his back for nothing—

I can't do the Sunday lunch thing anymore without feeling like I'm literally performing for a board of directors or something, you know? …

I’ve spent forty years making excuses for Arthur and honestly... …

You spend your whole life pretending you belong in a room because your father worked three jobs to put you there.

I work at the register of a high-end department store. …

I was twenty-six and playing the part of the successful immigrant son at a restaurant where they fold your napkin if you even look at the bathroom.

I am currently sitting in my bedroom in my parents’ house...

I applied the same tactical precision to my poverty as I did to a patrol. …

I’ve been back from school for three weeks and I’ve spent most of that time observing the physical distance between my parents.

u ever feel like ur whole life is just a lie u tell to keep everyone else from falling apart...