Arrrrrrgh! My family drives me CRAZY!

[Lavender Brown]

I am so glad the holidays are almost over so the get-togethers with the extended family cease... for a while anyway.

:argh: :mad: :argh: :mad:

Sorry, I just needed to let that out. Smileys don't begin to express the frustration I'm feeling with them all. :banghead: :banghead:

[Zavulon]

1. I'll make a deal with you.

Next year I'll host them and you take my girlfriend's mother off my hands.

I don't know who will get the worst of the deal, but at least it'd be a change of pace for both of us.

I'm not a big fan of Everybody Loves Raymond, but I've seen enough to know that Raymond's mom and my girlfriend's mom are very similar. The only difference is that Raymond's mom treats her kid's wife like shit, and my lady's mom treats her kid like shit. She's openly nicer to me than to her own daughter, and I can't stand it (or her), but my girlfriend won't let me say anything.

[PassingFair]

2. My grandmother treated my mother like crap.

Grandma's been dead for 10 years now,
and I STILL hate her for what she did
to my mother.

Don't take any CRAP from that witch!

[Zavulon]

3. I kind of have to.

It's one week a year (I don't tag along when my girlfriend visits her mom). Truth be told she is perfectly nice to me, but in a way that sure seems like a backhanded slap to her daughter.

A common example is "Oh, I'm so glad you can do this / that / whatever, because it'd take my daughter a week." I just heard this hooking up a DVD player, which I assure you my girlfriend can do as fast as I can.

[PassingFair]

5. My Grandmother summoned my mother to her bedside...

in her posh assisted living residence,
to be a witness for a change in her will
which COMPLETELY cut my Mother off.

My mother just TOOK IT!

She spent her whole life trying to please
that RAT of a human.

:puke:

I avoided her like the plague.

[Zavulon]

6. Jesus Christ.

Your mother is a saint. I've never heard anything quite like that.

[PassingFair]

7. My mother is kind of a DORK for putting up with her crap.

She should have had INTENSE therapy to straighten
out her self-worth issues.

Instead, she choose the passive-aggressive route.

Trickle-down crazy!

[murielm99]

15. I have a mother like that.

My mother probably has narcissistic personality disorder. All her behavior fits the description. NPD only gets worse as one ages. But disowning people in that manner is the kind of thing NPD's do to people.

I have very little contact with my mother. And therapy does help.

[PassingFair]

8. My dad tried to get my mom to stop being a lick-spittle to my Grandmother...

but he finally realized he couldn't change
the *ucked-up dynamic of that bunch.

He later told me that he LOVED it when my
mother went over there, because she came
back so downtrodden and insulted that my
father looked like a freakin' WHITE KNIGHT
to her!

[Zavulon]

9. My grandmother was a bitch, too.

Actually, one of them was nice, but she died when I was six. The evil grandmother always lives at least 15 years longer than the nice one.

[PassingFair]

10. Too true...

My nice old Grannie died when she was 63...

The HAG was 92!!!

UNFAIR!

[Zavulon]

11. Works for grandfathers, too.

The grandfather I loved died when I was ten, 35 years ago. The evil one, the one who ACTUALLY THINKS HITLER HAD THE RIGHT IDEA, still lives.

[PassingFair]

13. Hahaha!

We're leading parallel lives!

My evil Grandfather, banished me from
the dinner table when I was 12, for making
"pro-union" statements which had
"no place at his dinner table".

That was the LAST sleep-over I had there.

(I was too afraid to ask about his Hitler convictions)

Probably along the lines of
"One bad policy...."

[Zavulon]

14. Wow.

I doubt I'll ever need a support group, but if that day comes I want you to be a part of it.

[Lavender Brown]

4. I'm sorry. My family is nosy, but not straight-up mean to your face

They just have a weird 50s attitude to unmarried people and don't see how it makes some of us feel.

[Danger Mouse]

12. Just seeing this now.

:hug: