what the hell, family?

for once in my life i am so pissed at family members that are not my parents.

offense #1... my brother discovered that his wife is having an affair. a full blown affair. the last we heard she confessed to seeing this guy but nothing had happened. but he found some pretty heinous emails, and so their marriage is ending.

she has no idea how this is going to effect her and how it effects everyone. she literally has two sides to her, sane and crazy. sane loves my brother and wants to stay married to him, but crazy doesn't love him and does everything she can to hurt him. so finally, the shit is hitting the fan.

offense #2... most of my extended family (aunts and cousins) like to judge us midwestern family members and then gossip about it. for example, my cousins looked at my facebook and saw that i was voting for obama, and then my aunt talked to my mom and told her about how bad it was that "all over my facebook" it said that i was voting for obama. one wouldn't think this was a bad thing, except that she said it with disgust, as if I (and my sister) was evil for for voting for obama.

i've known for years that they are an extremely judgemental and narrow-minded group of people, but this just takes the cake. families are supposed to love each other and support each other, and this is just insane. if anything, just accept it! they call themselves christians but they can't possibly love and accept anyone who doesn't share their thoughts?? it makes me sick.


i'm just so tired and emotionally drained by all of this, that i don't know what to do anymore. i need sleep. God send my brother peace and safety, and give me the power love despite these evils against me.