Should I Stay With My Brother This Weekend?

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🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:41.3	My question for you is whether or not I should go stay with my brother out of state this weekend as planned,
0:50.3	despite our continued contention that we just had another problem over the weekend.
0:59.4	Tell me what the other problem is and what some of the other problems have been that get contentious.
1:06.8	Fill me in.
1:07.3	Certainly.
1:08.8	So Saturday late nights come to find my brother called me twice after
1:16.2	midnight, despite my phone being on Do Not Disturb, because apparently when a select list of
1:23.3	contact rings you within a couple minutes, it sends the call through, you know, in case of an
1:28.4	emergency. And so it woke me up. I was just about to drift off sleep, despite some back pain
1:34.8	I've been experiencing. It woke me up, and I wasn't able to fall asleep for a few hours
1:41.0	after that. So it was frustrating, but the next morning, I just gave him a call and said good morning and spoke to him. But one of the first things I said is I have a respectful directive for you. Do not call me after midnight unless there's an emergency, right? Instead of responding accordingly and respectfully in time, the first day out of his mouth was,
2:05.7	oh, well, what's up your ass?
2:08.5	Oh, what did he call you for?
2:11.5	Did he at that point tell you?
2:16.1	No, there was no emergency. That was clear. You know, there was no emergency.
2:18.3	That was clear.
2:19.3	You know, there was no calls or voice
2:21.3	spells the night before.
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