>>7405780And now i'm hearing these stories he's told other people, about how terrible I was, how I controlled his money when we were younger, and worse stories, like the ones we occasionally would tell people about our mother. And it's left me so hurt and lost and confused. I don't know how to repair this relationship, this important part of me that i'd always held up as my most important connection in the world. Even before hearing these stories, i'd been trying to contact him and spill my soul before him a few times, tell him how i felt, how lonely i felt and how i wanted to try and hang out more even. And all I got back from those efforts was "well, i still see you more than most, I count that as a win" (he's a really hermited person these days, and his closest friends have drifted away just like we have, and all he has is his girlfriend, a toxic leech who was also pushed her own friends away, and her sister who lives with them, who also has no friends anymore, for having let them all drift away and not made new ones) and i just can't get through to this household of incredibly broken people and fix or create relationships with any of them.