Do you have a family member that you can't stand?
 

Anyone? Anyone?

An uncle by marriage. He's a pompus jerk.

I have an elite group of aunts who always make it a point to comment on my weight gain since high school. A few years ago I finally had enough, so I outed them in front of the whole family at a large family gathering:

"Yeah well...at least *I* don't sleep with married men...at least *I'M* not a homewrecker!"

Yeah...busted. My mom, who constantly reminds the relatives that I am very sensitive about the weight subject, couldn't help but snicker and give me high fives.

We have a rude aunt. We dont know how she turned out the way she did because no one else in my family acts like her.

If I call you Marlys, it's a bad thing.

What is it with aunts?
 

I have an aunt by marriage whose name is Grace, but she's anything but full of grace!!

The nicest thing I can say about her is, when she & my uncle moved out of state, the entire town breathed a collective sigh of relief!

A family member I can't stand?
 

Not really...

I had an Aunt, by marriage.. but she was divored a year or so ago and since has been replaced with a FABULOUS New (Step) Aunt! :)

My mother-in-law.

My father.

I have a distant relative who liked to criticize my major. She always likes to point out how smart her daughter is (she just finished her bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering) and how everyone else isn't as smart. She seems to think that I am dumber since I studied humanities.

In a word, yes.

My mother's only sister. She has no qualms in showing that my sister is her favorite (I know that every person has a favorite, you just shouldn't show it so obviously...especially to a child!). She's a bigot. She's also a great big INTARWEB WHORE.

Maybe I shouldn't say this, but if something happened to her, I wouldn't feel bad outside of feeling bad for her sons (she also puts her www.boyfriends over her sons, which is fucked up).

I have an uncle (mom's side) who is like the opposite of me. He's conservative, racist, sexist, homophobic, thinks Wal-Mart is cool and is moving to Arkansas because it's so great. At family gatherings, we often get into debates that result in him turning a deep shade of pink and yelling. However, i can't say that I can't stand him -- I mean, I disagree with him on pretty much everything but I really find him sort of harmless because he's a lot of talk. Time spent with him always results in great amusement for me.

My cousin is a pompous self-absorbed twit. She married a pompous self-absorbed lawyer but did not invite any of her family except her parents & 1 brother to her wedding b/c the grooms uppity family did not socialize with "people like us" meaning Latinos. However, she did send us card informing us where she was registered & the address where we could send gifts.

What AOII Alum said--I got a few in my family that are on my isht list

alphagam-alum: ditto baby! We are in the same boat

i can't stand all my uncles (mother's brothers) wives

one is forty, thinks she is eighteen and wears her make up similar to bozo!

one tells me and my cousin all time that my uncle will not be leaving his land to us since she is around (in front of him, mind you)

the other is a perfectionist and super snotty and hardly comes around, because we wear jeans...all the time

and the other one always brags what he buys her and flashes her ghetto fabulous rings all over the place

(he buys us more, but we are not suppose to tell her)

In-laws. It's not pretty.

Fortunately, it's not a close relation, but my cousin's mother-in-law is such a twit! I have met the woman scads of times, yet each time the family gets together, she comes up and says "I don't believe we've met." She and her husband are also the most unbelivable snobs.

Hell, yeah, we've met - I even went to high school with your oldest daughter.:mad:

Jill1228 is right. AOIIalum says it all.

I have an aunt who I love, I really do......but she makes me crazy. She is 14 years older than I and yet I constantly have to be the one to take care of her and give her advice. She is also very self-destructive....she's terrified of getting sick or dying young and yet she refuses to take care of herself. She has been totally paranoid about heart disease ever since my mom (her big sister) died 3 1/2 years ago but she continues to get more and more obese.

She calls me and vents about how unhappy she is about pretty much everything in her life.....it is very depressing. I wish she could be fun like she used to be. I also wish she would take care of herself because she had her kids later in life than my mom did and if she kills herself with food and inactivity they're going to be a lot younger when they lose her than I was.

What do you mean reuses pancake syrup? Like she scrapes pancakes with it and puts the syrup back into the bottle? Why doesn't she just use less syrup? Is that even possible?

-Rudey

Well, I loved my late uncle, but I am still annoyed that he left all his money to anti-vivisectionists instead of me and my sisters. I really don't get it. What did they do to deserve it? I guess blood isn't that thick. *shrug*

Ewwwww. :eek:

Does anyone really "deserve" to get money when someone dies? I'm really not expecting anything when my older relatives die, and they can do what they wish with their money. I can't imagine expecting something because of family relations.

Yep...same here

Weird that's very similar to what happened: http://forums.greekchat.com/gcforums...edding+invited ... I wonder if this a prevasive problem.

Back on topic:

Yes... there are family members I can't stand. But it's usually the ones who can't stand me because I went to university and... you know ... did something with my life. Blah.

Oh yeah you got family members who drink "Hater-ade" too? The ones who got the "crabs in a basket syndrome"? :rolleyes:

"You think you are all that" "Or you think you are better than us because":
a) you went to college b) you have a steady job c)you live in a good neighborhood etc etc etc.

Yup, I guess we are related huh? :D Welcome to the family, cuz :D

My cousin is a weirdo & a biatch. When she was 15, she desperately wanted a quincanera (that's a coming out party in the Mexican culture) but she didn't have any friends to be her ladies of honor. That "wonderful" job fell to her female relative which included me, my little sister, and another cousin among others. We were forced to wear midnight blue taffeta monstrosities with fake pearls as jewelry. My aunt insisted we had matching hair so we looked like valley girl rejects from the 1980's. Too much AquaNet!:rolleyes:
My poor brother was forced to be her escort. She as exciting as paint drying. She sat most of the time hunched up & wouldn't talk to anybody. Finally, halfway through the misery of the party, some fugly guy walks in & she runs up to him to dance. It turns out he was her secret boyfriend but she told him that I had an STD and that my cousin was a lesbian b/c she did not want him to pay attention to us. I had to endure family members asking if I really had herpes. I was pissed as well as my mom. My poor aunt apparently slapped her that night for talking so badly about he own family. That was the last time I saw this cousin.

I have an uncle by marriage who really creeps me out - I can totally see him being like a child abuser or something.

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I know I've already mentioned my mother-in-law on this thread. I've put up with her for my husband's sake, but now I have officially HAD IT with her. She was over at our house yesterday between Yom Kippur services, and she completely lost her temper over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I have absolutely no idea what set her off, but suddenly she was whining about what a bitch I was and how she wanted to go home. It's not like she was upset because she was hungry, because she wasn't fasting. (Do you have any idea how hard it is to fast when you're watching someone stuff their face??)

My husband, the peacemaker, tried to placate her, but I was like "don't let the door hit you in the ass." A little later on, she and I sat down together and tried to smooth things over - at least I was trying to smooth things over - the bitch wouldn't let it go. So she is no longer welcome in my house.

I find it incomprehensible that such a sweet, polite, level-headed, gentlemanly young man as my husband could have come from the womb of such a total she-devil.

OK, I feel better now. </rant>

Well, my future mother-in-law seems so nice & conservative. Then the isht hit the fan with me. Here are a few of the things she's said & done.

* Invited my relatives to dinner then told all her friends how no one spoke english & it was weird having a bunch of Mexicans over for dinner. Said she stuck out being the white lady in the group. F.Y.I. My entire family speaks, reads, & writes english very well so I don't know what crawled up her ass to lie about us this way. Also born here not in Mexico. Only been to Mexico twice as a matter of fact & both times were for vacation purposes.

* I was invited to a european cruise by HER brother's family. She told them that I hate children so I absolutely would not go. Would not give them my # either so they could talk to me personally. Ran into them on accident one day & learned the story. Just b/c I may not want to have children does not mean I hate them. Too late for the cruise. It's all booked.

* Refused to see the dress I bought for a themed party b/c she thought the theme was to risque (think Chicago) so she gave me dresses from her closet to wear instead. Ummm...I'm a size 10 & she's a 22. Get the picture?

* Anytime I wear open-toed strappy high heels she refers to them as slut shoes. Keeps trying to get me to wear her shoes.

* Finally, a good friend & neighbor is terminally ill. :( Probably less than a week left. :( She used his illness as an excuse to keep my bf from leaving & moving out. Had the mans wife ask my bf not to leave. He couldn't say no the the nice lady so he cancelled his plans of moving out. :mad:

Even when I was in a different state in college my sister made my life miserable b/c my parents would call me to see if she called me or tell me about her escapades when on the phone.

Then this summer I had the pleasure of living at home and dealing with her. Oh the joy of playing parent #3.

Now 5 states away I still get the joy of hearing about her actions and how she is a loser.

I swear she's going to either end up in jail, knocked up, or on jerry springer b/c she needs money.

Thank god for my sorority sisters who have been there for me.


Oh and my parents are currently on the isht list b/c they are fighting over our house before they get a divorce. WHO CARES, SELL IT AND EACH GET ON WITH YOUR LIVES!! NEITHER ONE OF YOU CAN AFFORD IT ON THEIR OWN!!!

I am pretty fortunate for the most part because I love most of my family. However, we do have my grandmother, God love her, who has always said what she wanted, when she wanted, and didn't care how it affected other people. She's a very strong willed woman, and boy, did the isht hit the fan when she met my hubby. 9 years later and one grandchild, they still can't get along. I swear, I've never seen one woman who could get in a snide remark as a backhanded compliment. Unreal.

Ummm...how do you refer to your significant other's mother as your "future mother in law," but refer to him as your "boyfriend"?

Something. Does. Not. Compute.

Try asking her if you can bring a talking Chihuahua (like the one on the Taco Bell commercial) and insist that all Mexican families have one.

I cannot stand my maternal grandmother. My dad is the first runner up. Seriously, I think of her as dirt sometimes. I feel really guilty for thinking that way, but I'm being real. I cannot stand my grandmother because of her personality (self-centered, clinging, aggressive, manipulative) and my father because of his views (we have opposite views on almost everything!). It goes a lot deeper than this, but I don't want to air too much dirty laundry. I'm glad that I'm not alone.