As long as we're talking about not breaking ties with family, I figured I'd post about something again since I tried to say this a long time ago and ended up deleting it.
To be honest it really pisses me off whenever someone tells me that I should sever ties with my entire family ASAP simply because my brother and mother are huge dickheads for a multitude of reasons. For one thing, there's approximately a 99% chance that won't be possible because I'm not going to instantly become financially capable, and because my mother is now insisting that I stay in Maine for college and continue living with her for some stupid reason. My half brother seems to intensely dislike my father and has a really complicated relationship with him due to the fact that his mother, now my father's ex-wife apparently used to lie and talk about how he would hit her and how much he hated his family or something like that. So now he has an adult son who never talks to him, and who he believes hates him. I'm fairly sure he doesn't need another. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be a selfish dickhead in that way. While my stepbrother stopped talking to him because he was manipulated into doing it, I would be making a conscious decision to do the same thing. I know I'm not the best guy in the world, but I'd like to think I'm a little bit better than that.
Aside from that, I still have things to do with my family which I have to take care of, like the camp which my parents apparently plan to pass on to me and my brother, among other responsibilities. Completely abandoning everything to do with that just because my mother is an idiot and my brother is an emotionally abusive piece of shit is not a good solution at all. I'm not going to be a selfish bastard in that way.
I don't want to try to fix this kind of thing anymore, so I'm probably hardly ever going to talk about it on here anymore, but I just wanted to make sure people know that. That's it, I guess.