20 year old niece stands up to her dad's disrespectful older family memebers after years of them being toxic: 'I want nothing to do with them anymore'

Toxic people have no place in our lives, even if they're family. A young woman shared her story of dealing with family members who don't deserve to be called family. They all come from her dad's side of the family, and they enforce a weird hierarchy on everybody. Some members of the family are at the "top," and others are at the "bottom." They've used that for years to treat each other badly, speak behind each other's backs, and meddle in issues that are none of their business. They've treated her father like a scapegoat his entire life and used his personal issues with his daughter against them. His daughter had had enough at one point and sent them a message that said everything she thought about them. Suffice it to say that the tone was as mean and disrespectful as theirs had been her entire life. They called her parents to complain instead of taking it out with her, so she grabbed the phone and started arguing with her aunt and then her cousin. Their arguments were ridiculous and made no sense, so she ended the conversation afterwards. She told her dad that if he wanted to have a relationship with them, it was his right, but she didn't want to see them anymore. Not because som…

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