>This isn't the internet. this is hubski
I appreciate the reminder, this place, at least for now, is different from the rest of the constantly maxed-volume stream of normal internet discussion. My relationship with my brothers is awesome, in the sense that they can and have brought there issues to me and I've helped them. If my problem is something like "Oh things didn't work out with so and so, I'm upset" they've been great at just listening to me complain. But I have to edit things for them, because I don't want them to experience the squeeze of a rough economy until they have to. So they don't have to imagine certain kinds of loss until it actually (if ever) happens to them. If I had to put words to the feeling, I'm afraid of informing them about certain kinds of stress because I worry that if I do they will be made aware of stresses and problems that a well adjusted 16 year old shouldn't be directly cognizant of.