Tag: bullying
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Episode 67 – The Curious Case of the Vanishing Saturdays…
(Spoiler: They vanished right into Bully’s wallet.) In the final stretch of Dad’s life, things were raw. Everything hurt, everything mattered, and somehow, everything still had to get done. We’d been running a 13-day shift pattern (not my decision!). Let that sink in: thirteen days straight. I had one day off, just enough time to…
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The Stranger at the Wake – Part 2…
Three hours that changed everything. If you’ve been following this story, you’ll know I left my dad’s wake confused as hell, with a son nobody in my family knew about and a million questions swirling in my head. On the drive home, I finally started asking them. ‘How did you even know my dad died‘?‘Who…
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Episode 54 – Fresh Tarmac & Familiar Tire Tracks.
Fresh Tarmac & Familiar Tire Tracks Or: How Bully Yates Marks His Territory I bumped into a childhood friend today, someone I hadn’t seen in years. We laughed, we caught up and then we landed, as these things tend to go, on him. Yes, our favorite walking caution sign: Bully Yates. Turns out, it wasn’t…
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Episode 43 – Breed ‘Em Mean, Raise ‘Em Righteous..
Ah, the miracle of parenthood. Some teach kindness. Others pass down recipes, tools or slightly wonky heirlooms from the good room. And then there’s Bully – generational trauma’s most enthusiastic courier service. Forget lullabies and love. In Bully’s household, the bedtime story sounds like: ‘Once upon a time, your aunt was born and she’s been…
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Episode 42 -A Retrospective from the Delusional Files..
A Retrospective from the Delusional Files: What in the Hell Were Bully & Fanny Thinking? Sometimes I look back and wonder… not at me for surviving it all but at them. Bully Yates and Fanny McFox, strutting around Faurel Hill like they were the stars of a Netflix docudrama called ‘Entitled & Oblivious’. What were…
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Episode 40 – The General and His Ghostwriter.
There’s a strange kind of theatre playing out in our family. Picture it: Bully, stomping around center stage in his well-worn boots, barking orders like he’s head of a small country no one asked to visit. The audience? Mostly cows. Occasionally confused neighbors. And somewhere offstage, dimly lit, is my sister – headset on, clipboard…
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Episode 39 – The Bully Yates Chronicles: A Turf-Fueled Tragedy..
All I wanted was peace, a roof over my head and a modest pile of turf to keep the cold out. What I got instead was a front-row seat to a saga so dramatic, it makes soap operas look like mild weather reports. This isn’t just a story of land, residency or sibling rivalry. No,…
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Calling Out The Myth…
Calling Out the Myth: When Family Bullying Isn’t ‘Just Family’. They say ‘that’s just how he is or ‘It’s family – let it go’. But what happens when ‘just family’ starts to feel like just survival? There’s a myth that bullying ends when you leave school or that it only looks like shoves and name-calling.…
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Episode 32 -What’s Wrong with Bullies?
What’s Wrong with Bullies? A Diagnostic Guesswork Guide. From trauma to entity possession, we examine the possible sources of Bully Behavior – with absolutely no medical training but plenty of lived experience. Have you ever stared at a bully mid-tantrum and thought, ‘What unholy force powers this eejit?’ You’re not alone. Whether they’re hogging the…
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Episode 24 – When You Know Bully’s Brewing Something: Tea, Tension and Survival Tactics.
You ever get that feeling – deep in your gut? When you know that something’s brewing? Like, you can’t see it yet, but you know it’s coming? That’s where I’m at today. Bully’s out there somewhere, no doubt pacing around, arms folded, face like thunder, trying to dream up his next great ‘master-plan’. And me?…
UNDER THE WILL... OVER THE DRAMA... 