Why do people talk behind people's back? "Do you know what your brother did...?"
My family has been shattered by my ex's libel. Many of the things she shares with people are undoubtedly true. But now my brother won't talk to my father and hardly to me. It nearly all goes back to her and her loose lips in the end. She was angry enough with me to create calamity. She was spiteful enough to drive a wedge where a wedge doesn't belong.
My brother didn't see my mother for the last year of her life. Much of that can be hung on the gossip of my ex...not all but a great deal. I wonder if she knows the damage she is wreaking. I wonder if she knows the heartache she authors. I have a sad feeling she does. I have a sadder feeling she feels so justified it simply doesn't matter.
In talking to my Dad tonight my heart broke for him. It is pointless to get angry with her. It is not worth my energy. But my heart weeps. She strikes out at me and hurts so many others instead. It was better when I got to endure her scorn directly. At least then it was contained.
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