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You oldies might recall I used to come on here a lot to discuss my marital issues. I mostly just needed to talk about the latest blow up and whether I had my thinking straight or not. Well, I haven't had marital issues for many years. Not married any more. :-) Unfortunately, it looks like my brother and his wife may be splitting up. She and I talk a lot, mostly about other things, but yesterday she sent me a ton of stuff about her marriage. I'm talking emails between her and my brother going all the way back to 2004. 2004. Well, I read them all this morning, and I don't think my reaction was what she would have expected. Mostly it reminded me of - 2004 - yep, same year, when my ex lost it with me and started calling everybody to talk about it. And when I say everybody, I mean his siblings and parents, and then every one of my siblings as well as my dad. And I remember how I felt at the time. Mostly, how dare he pull my family into this and tell them stuff that was just between us. It felt like he was trying to divide us, take my family away, put them on his side, and give me nobody to talk to. So I wrote my brother an email to his work email so his wife can't see it and told him not to think I was taking her side in anything and that if he wanted to talk, nothing would get back to her. I guess I'm taking sides. ;-)