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to think my sister has the tact of a machine gun?

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Biobytes · 08/11/2010 01:33

so I am getting a divorce, from a man who has simply lost any decency to keep as much assets as he can possibly can, he has been abusive towards me and DS, underhanded and totally unpredictable.

So talking to my sister about the last illegal tactic he has employed before imminent court hearing my sister says... Oh yes, do you remember my friend Y? her ex took her 3 children away from her years ago but a week ago he allowed her to see them. She became alcoholic after he got the children, she was so affected that she used to fall asleep on the street outside of the house, like a squatter, hoping to be able to see her children.

Right, I already knew that this poor woman was left locked in a house she couldn't escape even in the event of a fire. I knew already the h was very violent and that, once, her baby rolled off the bed and fractured his skull, she couldn't get help as the husband had left her locked in the house and, as usual, he had taken the one and only phone away. Nonetheless, he almost strangled her when he returned home and realised what had happened to the baby.

My question is, am I unreasonable to think my sister is a tactless brute for telling me this just when I have told her the psycho of my ex has just come with another underhanded stuff and when we are going to court next week?

She has taken offense on my asking "...and how does telling me this, right now, helps me?

OP posts:
tallwivglasses · 08/11/2010 01:47

Not helpful at all!

I'd give it a couple of days then try and have a chat about it.

Imisssleeping · 08/11/2010 09:27

She was being a bit thoughtless but it has nothing to do with your situation, different family, different outcome.

ApocalypseCheese · 08/11/2010 09:27

Oh that poor woman Sad

edam · 08/11/2010 09:45

How horrible. And how stupid of your sister. Your comment was extremely mild in response! Equivalent to telling someone dying of cancer 'it could be worse, you could be in Abu Grahib (or whatever that prison is called) being tortured to death'.

chandra · 08/11/2010 10:05

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