My brother came by last night unannounced, I didn't have the best relationship when we were younger mostly because he was never around. I don't know what age everyone is here or if anyone remembers when they would fix up vans with couches, beds and blush velvet interior. He had one and would be gone weekends and some times months at a time.
He was making small talk and I stopped him and told him to cut the BS and tell me the real reason he came by, did he have an argument with his wife or does he need a place to sleep. He asked me if I had Instagram and I told him I did but I only followed my children, he pulled his phone out and handed to me with his sons page and asked me to flick threw. I haven't seen my nephew in a few months and in the pics he bleached his hair white and he was hanging out with friends wearing lipstick and him pics with transvestites and he's was advertising for tran gender clubs. I asked my brother what I was looking at and why he was showing me this. He told me he can't handle what he's seeing and if his son is taking this root he will have to kick him out of the house and will disown him and take him out of the will. Again I ask him what it is that he wants from me, he told me he want me to talk to him and straighten him out. He tells me I'm the cool uncle, the guitar player, fast car, earrings and long hair that they all look up to me and I could relate with them. I told him the only reason I could relate is because I'm not stuck in the 70s, things have changed and I have changed with the times and have a open mind. He asked me how I would have felt if that was my son, I told him that my son was 19 years old and never went out and never talked about girls. I didn't know where his mind was but whatever it was I was going to stand next to him and support him, not abandon him and one day he shows up with a girlfriend.
My brother gets up and asks me again if I could talk to his son and convince him to get some help and that he cannot deal with this and will never except it. I explained to him the obvious, his son wasn't wearing lipstick and I guess his son doesn't care because he knows that his dad follows him on Instagram, so I guess besides assumption and he really wasn't doing anything wrong in the pics. He said he doesn't like the situation and his friends and wants me to talk to him and take him out of that environment. He asked me again and with a begging please to help him, I answer him with ill think about it and he left what I would believe a little upset .When he left my wife started laughing telling me it must be genetic and told me she follows him on Instagram and Facebook and he is into some different things and asked me what I was going to do. I don't know, anybody here have any input, was I a little harsh on my bro. I don't want to ruin either relationship. Who knows maybe it is genetic.