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Does anyone have arsehole family members?
Just curious to see if anyone has those "special" members or their family that like to stir the pot?
My Aunt causes a lot of trouble within my family and is constantly telling my Dad he should have nothing to do with my Mom, and she is always telling my sister and I stuff about the problems my parents had when they were married.
So, anyone care to share their crazy arsehole family member stories?
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My SIL is a piece of work. She alienated all of our side of the family and now I don't speak to her or my bro. When I heard he left her (he since returned) I thought I had my brother back and whooped in joy.
I also have a wacko cousin's wife- which leads me to believe that there are probably more women alienating families than men. You know how the warning signs of a dangerous man is when he alienates his wife's family, cuts her off from them, treats them badly, etc.........well when a woman does it it kinda just rolls off to the side and doesn't get dealt with. Sad.
Ugh, unfort. too many & on both sides of our families! My older sis is awful & her 17 yrs older husband is even worse! They tried to ruin our wedding & of course, weren't invited then. That's just a tiny bit about them.
And my SIL (Mark's SIL actually), is awful too. She's a drama queen & brings stuff on herself. She loves to cause probs & goes out of her way to find things. Her & BIL were almost divorced less than a yr into their marriage & as bad as it is to say, it's a shame that he didn't end up divorcing her. He'd be sooo much happier w/out her!
Some of these probs r part of the reason we moved across the country...to get away from the whacko family members!
O-M-G.
So my moms family is GYNORMOUS and let's just say, in the gene pool there's a deep end, and there's a shallow end.
My mom's oldest sister is evil, literally evil. To the point that when her and her husband (who's a saint btw) and my mom, sister, and I were in Colorado for her sons (who's like a brother to me) graduation, she got PISSED because I checked her and her husband in on my iphone (southwest- gotta get the a group). That's just the tip of the iceburg, I can't go into how crazy she is in short sentences. She also has a son who is a DRAMA Llama!
Let's just say I only affiliate to about 1/4 of my actual family...
i call my sister the black sheep.
she'll be your best bud, but you say one thing or encourage her to do things that might be beneficial to her or others and she doesn't talk to you for the rest of your life.
she's always had issues with my mother (her step mother) and over the years we have always went along with it. but there came a point that pretty much each of us encouraged her to go see a psych because of her issues. she no longer lives with the woman and yet this problem has controlled her life ever since. to the point that she wouldn't call our father who almost died without seeing her for the last time.
it's sad too, because her husband makes an point to reach out and keep in touch with us. but she has written all four of us kids off because of the relationship she had with my mom.
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Wow....Thank God my family isn't the only one with a wacko...lol
My Aunt will also scour the websites that say your criminal record info or if you got a ticket and then throw it up in your face.
She tries to make her child molester/credit card fraud son look as good as possible.
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LMAO!! I was just about to come in here and say, "Um.... Jenn, do you got this, or do you want me to take it?"
Sadly, I could write novels that would make you very scared to attend family functions... Jenn has only touched the tip of the iceberg there.
On the flip side, those of us in the "deep end" as we like to call it, are pretty awesome (even if we have our little quirks).
Let's see here...
Two cousins who tend to have crushes and/or get a bit obsessive with some of the female members of our family. We have had concerns about whether or not one of these cousins and another female cousin of ours are actually involved. Yeah. I could say a few more things about this, but I'm just going to stop here. Oh, and the other cousin would be the major drama llama Jenn was referring to, who makes EVERYTHING about him, and on Facebook CONSTANTLY posts status updates like this:
"I've noticed something that if I don't say something to you, you never utter a sound."
or this: "How would like to honor yourself with hanging out with ME
" (and yes - he's completely serious - he plays it off like he's being funny, but OMG. It's ALL the time. He is soooo all about himself, it's ridiculous, and then turns himself into the victim when people in his life, including his family, aren't just climbing over themselves to hang out with him).
Um... What else Jenn? lol Sadly, there is more.
Jenn mentioned an aunt. There are about a billion stories we could share about her obsessive need to control everyone and everything in our family. How she has driven away all of her kids at one point or another (some way more so than others), how she has alienated all of her sisters from her life. How she judges every single family member for their life choices. How she takes the job of oldest sister and therefore she gets to tell everyone what to do (and when family members pass away, like our grandma and great-grandma, how she goes into the home and secretly takes whatever she wants and then denies it, instead of working together with her siblings to make sure everyone has some sort of special momento from them). Tip of the iceberg with her. Let's just say that my mom and Jenn's mom (sisters) have had extreme issues with her our entire lives.
OMG! Are we talking about the same Aunt? Is her name Connie by any chance? lol
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My MIL...
She has recently graduated to stalker status. We're talking Facebook hacking and creeper drive-bys.
Can't wait to meet my baby boy!
my grandma: (dads mom)
she also went over to my great grandmas place and took things from her then wrapped them up as gifts to everyone at christmas. and right after my great grandma died (i was literally holding her hand singing to her as she passed my grandma started searching the body for jewelry) i wanted to knock her out.
we call my grandma (same one) the whore. she's had multiple men over to her house as she baby sat myself and my brother and had sex with them in the next room. (once my mom found out she never let her watch us again) she's also encouraged my dad to cheat on my mom saying how can he love my mom "she's so fat." (now shes fat) karmas a ***. She has also asked my mom how her son is in bed. as if anyone wants to hear that, but she just replyed "if he's anything like his father was...." (eeeewwww)
she's also chased my grandpa away permantly. he's only ever visited twice and won't come back because of her. She seduced him last time he came out to see us. i was 13 and she recently confessed this to my brother and I. telling us that he was the love of her life and it was ok that she seduced him although he is married to someone else. after all "she had him first" (can you say WRONG)
my brother and I considered my great grandma more of a grandma to us and call the other one by her first name. she's always hated that. oh and my mom can't stand her to this day. no one in the family can, we just tolerate her. my dad was primarily raised by my great grandma so she failed as a parent and a grand parent