Lately I just found out that all along I have been exploited by my close relatives staying with me.
I did not realised it until I had a good talk with a confidant lately.
Unexpectedly, in the past, I was being exploited by my colleagues, my so call good friend and my siblings. However after realising it, I decided to let it slide though I felt hurt, upset and angry with their actions.
I did not confront them. Maybe I am timid, maybe I am too kind?
Somehow I know that people tend to “bully” me just because I am too kind or I am quiet, or do I look like a sucker to them!
Even the person I thought was nice to me and I trusted the most, did such things to me, me :( Of course I felt hurt and terrible.
Why.
I tried to think if I have done something to them but not that I know of or maybe accidentally I stepped on their toes.
As for few of my close relatives, I know they have been taking advantage of my kindness and soft heartedness in terms of financial wise.
Now the ones staying with me are doing the same thing to me! I have been providing them with nearly free lodging and other daily necessities and they are like expecting for more “freebies”!
I have been saving hard all these donkey years while working and by being thrifty and didn’t spent much on myself and I now felt that indirectly I am spending my hard earned money on these people!
Sigh….
I have the money but for some reasons I am unable to buy the things I like freely.
How I wish I can stay on my own alone without my close relatives bunking at my small house and the best thing is that I don’t know how to ask them to leave and they somehow take things for granted. The best thing is that sometimes I felt that it is more like their house than mine!
Anyway, I am not so happy as I do not have privacy and the worst thing I can think of is that they may stay with me “forever”.
Come to think of it, if only I did not “belong” to this family; my situation and my life might be different!!!
