I don't feel safe around my family emotionally. They haven't done anything physical to me but the emotional damage is just stacking. My brother is a pathological liar that jeopardizes so many family activities by manipulating and being fake-nice but then turning on them and baiting them into "telling lies" by withholding information and then "calling them out" on it. He's one of the biggest reasons for my trust issues with people from an old school being a close second. My dad is also some kind of master manipulator who pretends to give you choices and you only ever win if you agree with him. If you pick the "wrong" answer, he'll argue and argue until you give in. My mum is the one I can tolerate the most because she's always been sweet AND she knows that my brother is an ass-wipe. The problem is that she enables it and tells me to "not bear the responsibility" and "not let him control my life" because he's family, but she and my dad won't admit that it's because even they don't know what to do. I want to stay away from my brother because I might k!ll him one day, he'll k!ll ME one day because I'd probably be so done that I unalive, or I just live with this for decades because my family won't separate us. They want us to not form a rivalry when I'm already enduring emotional abuse from the shit he pulls. It isn't my fault, I know, which is why I want to get away when my family forces me to interact with my brother. I'm not exactly looking for advice, I just want people to agree with me that my emotions are valid and that he really is an ass-wipe.