If I were in your situation, I would keep my distance from as many of those characters as I could.


I pretend one of my brothers doesn't exist, we don't talk, I refuse to attend any family function he will be at and I don't tell new people I meet that he was even born.


Family is only "important" if they're good family, what good is blood if it means we are to be surrounded by toxic people?


I'm slowly forming my own family, people who I can trust, people who are loyal, people who choose to be in my life. Instead of people who are "there" out of familial obligation.