: My brother died too young, at 32. His son was 8 when this happened, and I’d always been in his life. Related Articles I took more responsibility.
As he got older, we spoke on the phone weekly and texted. Every year on my brother’s birthday, I put up an RIP on Facebook with his photo. At the 20-year mark, I posted a funny story about us as teenagers – we drank some beers, tore up some corn from a farmer’s field and had a “sword fight.
” We got caught and had to work on that farm all summer, eventually becoming close with the farmer. Friends commented “Fun days!,” et cetera. My nephew went ballistic, texting me, “Your FB post has reached millions of people all over the world and now everyone thinks my father was an alcoholic who didn’t respect anyone!” I immediately deleted that story and photo.
I apologized to my nephew via text and I mailed a card. (By the way, I do not have millions of FB followers. I have 85!) I tried to call but he had blocked me.
He texted, “Your narcissistic toxicity has resulted in a BLOCK.” A few weeks later, relatives told me this nephew had quit his job of 10 years, yelling that everyone was against him. Friends say that all his recent posts are about betrayal.
I am stunned. We have never argued once until this event. I have been like a father to him.
Is there anything I can do to repair this relationship? I am so sorry you’re going through this. What you did sounds like an innocent, and rather heart-warming, way to remem.
