When you are bombarded by toxic people as a child experience and research has taught me you can go two ways.

You either decide you detest them and hate their constant evil lies so much you promise NEVER to be like them or you let them poison you to the point you enable them to ruin your entire life or even worse you become what they are and try to destroy everyone around you.

I chose the former, I would rather be alone than compromise my integrity.

I could never understand why my toxic stepfather kept running my entire family down to me, I know now. Toxic people take pleasure in splitting families, they create rifts in families, sisters against brothers, sisters against sisters, toxic people do this for fun.

My family should understand how it works by now.