#complaint post

Congratulations! Your out of the Broom Closet, you have told your family/friends/co-workers/flatmates you practice witchcraft. Now what? Now you better get ready for all the issues associated with being open about your practice. It usually goes two ways:

DON'T EVER SAY IT AGAIN GO SAVE YOURSELF TALK TO THE LORD!!! Repentyourselfthedevilistemptingyou!

Cool, can you help me with money/love/success/givemethis&that? Can you teach me how to xyz? ( and they get upset if you don't)

I come from an Italian family where the pagan/folk traditions have perfectly merged with the Catholic beliefs, creating a mix of grandma's remedies, prayers to Saints and Patrons, protection spells and charms against the Evil Eye and kitchen witchery intertwined with green witchery.

BUT NO ONE COULD CALL IT WITCHCRAFT.

When I told my grandma about it, she quickly let me know that I should have stopped sharing this kind of information and keep it to myself. That what the women in our families have always done are just 'tricks and remedies' and nothing to do with magic. I decided to share it with my partner at the time, but despite all the support, there was always that feeling, that weird look, that fear.

Almost as if having by his side an impowered woman was not part of the plan. As if there was something inherently evil with my desire to create potions and spells. (He had a Christian upbringing too)

Without mentioning the amount of times people started preaching and trying to convince me that whatever religion they follow was the right choice for me, quite aggressively I might add.

And then, inevitably, the suggestions, questions, requests started coming my way. The voice spread, people who I haven't talked to in years somehow found out and started reaching out to me, asking for help with this and that, asking for specific questions, almost fetishizing me and the newly found identity associated with being friend of a witch.

And don't get me wrong, if I could I would help everyone and get them to follow me on board, but unfortunately it's not my job to teach you, it's not my job to spend time giving you the shortcuts, spoon-feeding you all the knowledge it took me months, years, to acquire through hard work and trial error. And some people do not seem to understand that.

I have two friends as my mama and dada caregiver but both have been gone and not texting me since last year around christmas :((

Pretty much i have no cg and half my friends (except 2 my bestie answers me at least) havent spoken to me on discord :( so i stopped using it as much cuz of that

It never occurred to me that I should tell her he is traveling over the weekend because we will be done with the project before the deadline, and also, it's none of her business because he is not an employee. But as usual, she wants to add another thing on to the project, and now she's annoyed with him because he won't be available on Friday or Monday.