Barely Keeping Up

 When you are no-contact with a member of your family, there is no winning in any scenario and the game is not just shitty, but rigged 100%.  You want that family member (or members) to reach out because you do miss them, but at the same time you know that if they reach out it could end up being just this giant pain in your ass where you don't really know how to handle the situation.   So many things go through your head- are they sorry and ready to have a conversation about how their actions and words hurt?  If they are ready to apologize, do they actually want to have that conversation and start fixing the problems or do they want to just sweep it under the rug and ignore the issues that you brought up in the first place?  Then, the possibility opens up that if they want to sweep it away, do you allow them to preserve what little relationship you may have, attempting to move forward because family is the most important thing (or at least that's what they'...