My mother admitted something to me that really bothered me

When I was in high school I applied to a bunch of colleges, this was back in 2007, when colleges sent acceptance letters through the mail.

My relationship with my family has always been problematic as they both preferred my older brother, mainly because he wanted to be a doctor while I wanted to write and direct movies. My older brother never had the grades of attitude to be anything, let alone a doctor. He always threw tantrums when things didn’t go his way and he built a reputation in school of being a cry baby momma’s boy.

I never got accepted anywhere and ended up getting thrown out by my dad who called me an idiot. I spent a year sleeping on a friends couch before I got a stable job in line painting. I had to break up with my high school sweetheart as well, as the stress got to me and she got into college, and we grew apart.

Now it’s been 18 years since all of that, and I own a line painting company and an asphalt repair company. It wasn’t easy and I did get hurt a bunch of times on the job, so now I have shoulder issues and lower back issues.

My mother reached out to me recently and we met up to talk. My dad was their. I haven’t seen them in years.

She revealed that my brother still lives at home and flunked out of college, and refuses to get a job. He spends all day sleeping. He also got into trouble in the past for assaulting his barber. My brother is bald by the way.

She then tells me that I actually had gotten accepted into a bunch of different colleges and shows me a stack of old mail back from 2007. It turns out that both she and my brother were intercepting the acceptance letters from the mailbox, because she didn’t want me to succeed at something before my brother did.

They both said they were sorry for everything and wants to start over with me.

I haven’t forgotten the terrible way they made me feel in the past, and now I’m not entirely sure what to do