At least they are gone now. I'm in the aftereffects of another family visit. It was my dad's birthday. My mum told my brother I was coming over, so arrived to get his lunch cooked and then hung around til I got there. Fortunately, my dad said he wasn't having the football on, so brother left for the 4pm kick off! I only had to deal with him for an hour, but it always makes me so angry.

What made it worse is that my mum knows enough not to tell my brother when I'm coming over, yet still ignores my feelings because she wants her family together. **** family. She should have thought about that years ago.