Background: Me and my brother used to be close but as time went on, we drifted apart. I mean really drifted apart. To the point where i can’t remember the last conversation we had. We go to the same high school and I’m apart of the “popular” crowd and he’s apart of the robotics/debate/Model UN crowd.
This leads to what happened yesterday. I was going through reddit and I found an account that sounded strikingly like my brother. I went through the posts and comments and it was definitely him: same hobbies, stories, everything. I was scrolling through when I ran into a comment about how he wishes he could be close to me but it’s impossible. How he’s afraid of attempting to start a relationship due to fear of me brushing it off. That I wouldn’t care if he disappeared because I have more people who care about me and that if he disappeared I probably wouldn’t notice. The one that broke my heart the most was a comment about how he understands; that if he were in my position, he wouldn’t be bothered with someone like himself too. I completely broke down crying. I figured our drifting was normal and never thought twice of it, all the while this had been weighing on him for a while. What should I do? He’s away on a trip with his robotics club and won’t be back for a couple days. I want to text him but I also want to talk in person, as I 100000% owe him that. Is there a special way I could show him that he’s a great brother and that there’s nothing wrong with him at all? What would you guys do? Tl;dr: my brother feels that he’s below me and thinks that I hate him and I want to know special ways to let him know that’s he’s great.
Submitted March 05, 2020 at 06:36PM by ThrowRa_throwawayx2x https://ift.tt/39tjOo5
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