I hate confrontation. I'm good at arguing but I'm not a really confrontational person. I don't like to start fights and most things I can let roll off my back without having a major affect on me. This thing with my parents has not been one of those things that just rolls right off.

I finally had to tell my mother that she needed to find someone else to talk to about everything that's happening with my dad. She was telling me things I didn't need to know and using my sister as a spy.

Now, it's not like my sister isn't an adult as well, she turned 21 this year, but she's still relatively innocent. She's learned a lot about life in college these past few years but she shouldn't be dealing with this kind of stuff. Hell, I shouldn't be dealing with this kind of stuff! I have no clue what to do in a situation like this but I know a little bit more about dysfunctional relationships that my sister.

I'm just glad that DBF and I don't have any major issues. Actually, we really don't have any issues in our relationship. Deployments are an issue but only because we would much rather be together than apart. Deployments don't make us fight more or anything like that. Mostly, they just make us miss the hell out of each other and that only improves our relationship.

If my parents don't work this out in the next few months this is going to be a very long deployment. I don't know how I'm going to stand being in the same house since I'll be moving back home while DBF is away. I just don't know what the hell to do with my family anymore.