Righting wrongs

 I'm not feeling to great today so,this will be a short post as we cool down after last weeks super hot period and I get a bit of rest in.

Bad relationships with my younger brother go back a very long time, certainly to the time he turned around ten and started getting more manipulating from playing around the year or games under the bed clothes in the early hours of the morning, hopefully not attracting the attention of Dad and and his slipper.

While much he moved into has been talked about before and how that left me an out of the blue phone call last Friday when did was out made for an interesting conversation as he wanted to talk about past events, not least how Dad treated him - being physically abusive whenever he was unwell and mum also was,accusing him of various things and how a chunk of the wider family just will not accept he has this side to him not to negate the other and good side of his nature that often seem like odd bed fellows.

I did take advantage of that to confirm my understand of what had gone on, my own views being similar to his and he was understood and perhaps more importantly his mum understood it too as indeed as I well recall she said as much in her later years.

While none of that takes away how he treated me, I do feel some progress has been made in at least getting an understanding his issues from that are accepted and paving a bit more of a way towards better relationships going forward.