UNDER THE WILL… OVER THE DRAMA…

Category: Kin and Consequenes

  • Episode 87 – Bully Watch…

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    Bully Watch… When They Don’t Talk to You… But Talk About You… Ever notice how some people don’t actually speak to you, but have plenty to say about you? There’s a certain breed of drama farmer who thrives on indirect communication. They won’t call, won’t text, won’t answer your emails, but suddenly your neighbor knows…

  • Episode 86 – Turf Wars…

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    Turf Wars: Post-Op and Preyed On… I came home to heal. He came to conquer. One week in the hospital. Surgery. Painkillers. IV drips. Kind strangers held my hand and helped me sit up. A near-death experience, and somehow… peace. I returned home tender, stitched, and craving only silence, a cuppa, and my turf stove.…

  • Episode 85 – Why Does Bully Still Trigger Me?

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    Why Does Bully Still Trigger Me? A Delightful Tale of Healing, Sarcasm, and Well-Placed Eye Rolls… So someone asked me today, with a straight face, mind you,“How come Bully still triggers you so much? I thought you were healing?”And honestly, I had to pause for a moment. Not because it was a bad question. But…

  • Episode 84 -The Boss Man Cometh…

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    The Boss Man Cometh: Bully’s Greatest Role Yet… So after I wrote that last post about how people in families use titles to dodge feelings, something else popped into my head. Because if anyone could take a situation as heartbreaking as watching our dad disappear into dementia and turn it into a personal promotion opportunity,…

  • Episode 83 – Farming the Family…

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    Farming the Family: The Real Business at Faurel Hill… Welcome to another episode of Under the Will, Over the Drama, where inheritance is a sport, and the family farm is the prize. Let’s set the scene. Bully, our ever-present, ever-strategic protagonist, pops up at Faurel Hill every day to tend the cattle. Seems wholesome enough…

  • Episode 82 – Same House, Different Exits..

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    Funny how you can grow up under the same roof, eat the same food, breathe the same air, and still end up on entirely different planets. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. How the two oldest in our family turned out so different to the two younger ones. Not that any of us…

  • Episode 81- Spare Light-Bulbs …

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    Episode 81- Spare Light-Bulbs & Spare Bullsh*t… Growing up, my dad always had an account at the local hardware store. Nothing fancy, just a little family-run shop where you could pick up bits and pieces, light-bulbs, batteries, a roll of twine if you needed it. Every month, he’d send me in to pay the bill…

  • Episode 80 – The Anatomy of a Bully…

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    The Anatomy of a Bully: Greed, Ghosts & Imaginary Friends… You ever meet someone so disconnected from life, you half expect to see a Vacancy sign blinking behind their eyes? That’s our Bully. He struts around like a man of substance, but if you peeled back that smug exterior, you’d find little more than fear,…

  • Episode 79 – The Day Bully Took the Remote Control…

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    The Day Bully Took the Remote Control (And Kept It a Secret)… You know that moment when you realize the game’s been rigged and you didn’t even get a seat at the table? Yeah, that one. A month after Mam died, the will was changed. Just like that. No fanfare. No heads-up. No whispers in…

  • Episode 78 -The Dementia Deal: Brought to You by Bully & Fanny….

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    You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family… and you sure as hell can’t stop them from flogging your house while you’re halfway to the afterlife. Ah, Bully. The man, the myth, the legend in his own lunchbox. You know the type, thinks charisma is the same thing as intimidation, and loyalty…