Posted by pseudoname on June 7, 2006, at 21:26:45
I think my brother-in-law (BiL) has got an impulsive speech disorder; or he's a jerk; or both.
(Readers may recall my first personal post 5/24/06 http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20060527/msgs/650036.html)
So a few days ago, I admitted to a short-term memory loss... actually related to remembering where the car (BiL's car) was parked in the parking lot.
BiL said, "Man, you got to lay off them Vicodin."
I am taking the partial opioid agonist/antagonist buprenorphine for depression. I thought it was a good thing, you know, SHARING, to tell my sister a few months ago about finally finding an effective antidepressant for the first time in 20 years.
But this is how that information gets used. To make a joke, in front of other people not in my family, at my expense, and dealing with THAT, of all topics.
My ex-therapist may have been a HUHA Freudian, but at least he officially labeled BiL a jack*ss. When I told my mom about that, she agreed. And my brother, who can put up with anyone, has explicitly requested BiL to stop talking one night at a campfire.
Yet I'm the one who feels like a worm because of it. I could retaliate by making fun of *HIS* many problems. (How I gloried in the moment a neighbor lady, speaking to BiL, referred to "that time when you were so overweight." Shortly thereafter and today, BiL gained it back.)
But I won't. I'm lower in the pecking order. He knows it.
I wonder what the name of Texas Chic's book is.
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