Guilt food

I went back to my old home today because my cousins were visiting. It's not my whole family I have a problem with.... just my parents. I talked with my cousins and my aunts and uncles. My mother kept asking me if I wanted food, plying me with leftovers. I didn't really want the food, but it would've been bitchy not to take it. Of course, my father didn't look at me or say a word to me. Status quo.

I think my mother asked me to come home because they'd rather not be embarrassed by the disowning of a daughter in front of the whole family. To them, saving face is more important than anything else.