And she said she would celebrate when I’m gone.
I know a lot of dark and legally dubious thing about my parent’s bussiness and I’m on the verge of just spilling the beans about every possible law they’ve broken. Fuck it, trump can deport all of us then.
Yep, this, 100%.
Take the threat seriously, respond in kind.
Deal with the emotional trauma later, right now, … that was a threat, your life is in danger, presuming you want to remain alive and well, act accordingly.
Of course, break no laws, thats not what I mean.
Blood may be thicker than water but it also makes much, much more of a mess when handled improperly.
Gather all the information, all the documentation you can, then vanish, ghost them, cut off contact, potentially move to another part of your city or another state entirely, if possible, change your phone number, etc.
Once all that’s settled, you’re settled… “defend yourself”, from a legal point of view.
Doesn’t blood being thicker then water mean the opposite of how you used it? The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
As I understand the saying, blood is thicker than water in that one is more directly connected to their kin than to others.
I am attempting to subvert this along these lines:
As there are stronger bonds of blood, so are there messier feuds of blood, squabbles between or amongst kin.
I have not heard before, the uh, formulation you have presented yourself.
Like uh, as I understand it, the entire physical symbology of a blood oath or blood brother covenant or something similar is that… the two literally intermingle their blood, so as to come closer to literally sharing the same blood as kin do.
But, your version of it is also interesting, just, not something I’d heard before.
But also… births are generally at least somewhat bloody affairs.
I was actually surprised to google this and learn that it’s not the most common understanding. Although the first time I heard it was in Boy Scouts so it probably was some type of indoctrination.
Uh just for clarity, are you saying your understanding of the phrase / concept is from the Boy Scouts?
And that it is this one that is less common?
Its just where I first heard it, relatives and others confirmed the phrase/concept later.
This version does seem to be the less common version according to Google anyway. It wasn’t until like a decade later in life that I heard someone use it to mean familial bonds are stronger.
Huh, yeah, I’d never heard your version of it before.