My Family Treated Me Like A Failure For My Major. Years Later… Reddit Relationship Stories

My Family Treated Me Like A Failure For My Major. Years Later… Reddit Relationship Stories -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Brother Laughed When I Chose Trade School And Said, “That's So Perfectly You!” My Parents Treated Me Like A Disappointment. Years Later, He Called Me At 2 A.M., Crying, “I Don't Know How You Did It, But I Can't!” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I grew up in a mid-size town in Ohio. Nothing fancy. My dad, Roger, worked at a manufacturing plant for 33 years. My mom, Diane, was a receptionist at a dental office. Good people, both of them, but they had one blind spot the size of a billboard. And that blind spot was my older brother, Travis. Travis was 3 years older than me, and from the moment I could form memories, everything in our house revolved around him. He was the first to walk, the first to talk, the first to bring home a trophy, and my parents treated each milestone like he'd just cured a disease... #redditstories #askreddit #redditfamily #redditstories