Saw this thread and needed to chime in.
From abusive parents, abusive exH, psycho sibling, ignorant head in the sand type wider family members in denial that there was something so drastically wrong with living with an egg donor who was a fucking dementor (putting it mildly), sperm donor with handy fists and nasty taunts, exH - the gaslighting narcissitic psychopathic pathetic excuse for a human and all the other DNA entwined fucktards who claimed that family loyalty comes first so no matter what evil they inflict and that blood is thicker than water (so is dog shit mate)...
I often thought through the years there was something wrong with me, there was this constant little voice deep inside that wanted to say to people "Go fucking fuck yourself". Sadly, with low self esteem and being an utter doormat of a people pleaser I never said anything, just let it fester away eating my insides wondering why people were downright nasty and didn't respect me or love me like I did my own children...
Years of therapy has helped and by christ I am nearly fucking there. Just one more fucktard (line manager) to deal with and I will be free of any fucking cunt who thinks they can fucking fuck with me. The final push to be that person to say what I really feel and call out boundary busting behaviour, politely, but directly, was realising a) people who are abusive don't give a flying fuck about your feelings or respects you as a person and b) menopause. After some wonderful HRT to ease the peaks and troughs of the mood swings (More like demonic rage) I'm embracing who I really am - someone who does give a fuck to people who have earned the right to be near me, respect me and never intentionally hurt me - and a women with the absolute ability to say fuck off to those who don't. It's that fucking simple.
I went NC with the egg donor nearly a decade ago, LC with sperm donor, pretty much NC with the majority of the family and divorced the exH. Do I care? Do I fuck. My fuck giving bag is empty and life is very much infinitely better for it.
p.s. Hear you all when you say WTF when reading some threads, makes my blood boil.