Red Mosquito

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In small doses they are fine.

telling.

all of my relatives are idiots..

I'm very close with my immediate family, and generally "get along" with most of my extended family but am not super close with them

I get along great with my parents, but they despise each other, so that's always caused problems. For extended family, I'm a lot closer to my mom's side than dad's, many of whom scared the hell out of me as a kid. Lots of drug addiction and violence and general barbarity on that side, but my aunts are cool. Generally a lot of problems on both sides, but most of them mean well and have good hearts. Harsh folks born into harsh environments.

Hey guys

I know this is obviously not a thread for me but I'll post this here anyway as it just happened last week. Met up with my brother and sister for lunch to discuss what the plan is for my Mum's ashes. Talk turns to Xmas and our usual tradition of Xmas Eve dinner together that has been hosted at one of our family's houses every year since before any of us where even born. Sister says she's not coming this year. When I ask why she casually drops "because I don't really feel like I have a family anymore".

Just spat that out and left it hanging there without any explanation. Well fuck you Sis.

Higgs wrote:I know this is obviously not a thread for me but I'll post this here anyway as it just happened last week. Met up with my brother and sister for lunch to discuss what the plan is for my Mum's ashes. Talk turns to Xmas and our usual tradition of Xmas Eve dinner together that has been hosted at one of our family's houses every year since before any of us where even born. Sister says she's not coming this year. When I ask why she casually drops "because I don't really feel like I have a family anymore".

Just spat that out and left it hanging there without any explanation. Well fuck you Sis.

Wow, did you press her for more explanation?

what the fuck is burts problem

Dev wrote:what the fuck is burts problem

My forgiveness, acceptance, and humility.

Burt is the greatest family lover of our time.

spike wrote:

Higgs wrote:I know this is obviously not a thread for me but I'll post this here anyway as it just happened last week. Met up with my brother and sister for lunch to discuss what the plan is for my Mum's ashes. Talk turns to Xmas and our usual tradition of Xmas Eve dinner together that has been hosted at one of our family's houses every year since before any of us where even born. Sister says she's not coming this year. When I ask why she casually drops "because I don't really feel like I have a family anymore".

Just spat that out and left it hanging there without any explanation. Well fuck you Sis.

Wow, did you press her for more explanation?

Not really. I was kinda devo about the comment tbh. And my sister is a well known "poor me, I have it so hard" type so I kinda thought fuck it, I don't wanna give you the floor on this. So me and my brother both consciously ignored her.

probably like most kids of divorce I am closer to my moms side of the family (she had custody)

My dads side of the family i get along with but see maybe once a year. its funny because my cousins wife is always like hey if youre down this way please stop by and see us yet i see her facebook posts of being in her home town that is 10 minutes from me.

i have two surviving uncles. (80 and 65) the one (65) is a pure 100% anti trumper and called my brother a nazi because my brother wouldnt denounce trump in 2016. my uncle then defriended a few of us nephews and nieces because we didnt reply to one of his anti trump rants on FB.

The other uncle (80) is in ohio about 2 hours away and is an absolute delight. always with a funny story or sarcastic comeback, and enjoys sharing stories of the family. my uncle who is 65 bought my grandmas place off the other surviving siblings (3 uncles, 1 dad, 1 aunt) as long as if he ever sold it any extra from the buying price would be split up. I had mentioned that it was sold and my older uncle was laughing because his brother never said a word. I text this uncle about once ever two weeks and my cousin (his daughter) let me know that he was happy I was texting him and keeping him up to date on things

One of my sisters is a MAGA weirdo. Started home schooling her kids.

Rest of the family I enjoy hanging with. My dad is annoying as fuck but I love him.

I do get along with my relatives, but that's not to say that there hasn't been any tension between anyone before. After my father's father died, his three children argued in several ways of how to handle it, and my father stopped visiting his sister and her family afterwards. All three siblings (my father and his two siblings) are dead now. Contact with my aunt's family has been less since everything went down, but I did invite all of them to my wedding.

On my mother's side things are a lot easier. However, it's a fairly large family, and how close we are probably lessen a little with every year. As cousins we were super tight when we were kids. Some of them are grandparents now.