Quote Originally Posted by ashtonDs View Post
He sounds like an extremely insecure person. It's sad in a way. but if he was less obnoxious his family might want to help him. As it is his actions keep everyone at arms length, which he may be doing on purpose (and maybe unconsciously) to somehow protect himself from whatever it is he is afraid of.

You are correct ashton. Within the last couple of years, I discovered, from my mother that, as a child my father was raped by an older boy in Brazil. This discovery confirmed for me what I already suspected--We all have some skeleton in our collective closets. and none of us is alone!