Uncle brian... I get you now

Oh, I'm that aunt. My family sucks. But my niece contacted me yesterday since I'm moving to where I grew up. I know my fam is a bunch of asshats and she asked me if I could take her to a concert. My idiot sister would not allow her to go. I asked my niece: Which bands would you like to see? SOA & The darkness. Immediately booked 4 tickets for those and another 2 for moon hooch. Fuck people who don't allow you listening to music.

I'm having that problem with my niece now, she thinks Pokemon are cool. She's not allowed to play the games or watch the show because my brother thinks they're satanic.
- Holy hell! I deeply hope you punch that gobshite in the nose at some point. Seriously, wtf?
I wish I had a cool aunt like you when I was a kid.

It was the inverse in my family. The uncle who extricated himself from most of the family was actually a huge piece of garbage and did everyone a favor by cutting us off. I don't think he expected that nobody would make an effort to re-establish contact.

As an Uncle Brian who keeps his distance... I hope my niblings make this realization sooner rather than later.

I'm that uncle. I hope one day my nephews reach out to me without their mother/my sister's toxic involvement, but so far, she's just to be involved in every relationship she can to sabotage it.

“Is my sister literally watching you have this phone call with me?” — me to myself on the phone with nephlings in the past. Gross. Especially since my sister complained about our own parents having pulled that kinda bs

Auntie Dawn, I realise you're probably more like me than I realised. Especially because my family probably call me a bitch who's ashamed of her working class background now too.

That's me! I love my little nephews but the siblings are so toxic. All they do is tear people down and I stopped caring around the time my brother made a pass at my girlfriend and my sister started cheating on her husband.

I don't need people like that in my life.

My parents made the choice to live farther from the rest of the clan 20 years ago and it was a good decision. Today, everyone over there is at each other's throats or not on speaking terms. Us on the otherhand, they all love us. Not because we're great or anything, but because we have zero drama with anyone.