When it’s friends that you love like family, they matter.

And I will do everything I can for them.

But when it’s family that aren’t your friends, they don’t matter.

It takes a lot of self-control and power to overcome the guilt they abuse you with.

Yes, you owe them your life and your education.

But they don’t own you.

And anything they did for you was to help you make a success of yourself.

Exploiting that, after years of neglect or distance, will make nothing but failure.