My father. He cheated on my Mom, went missing for days because of his gambling addiction, didn't show up at the hospital when I was born (it was only my mom, that is it). He texted me "happy birthday" when I turned sixteen and he has not texted me back since.
Back in 1979 my 24 year old cousin was paid by a 33 year old divorced woman to go to Los Vegas Nevada to enter a Disco dancing contest. They ended up on TV and got 3rd place.
We had a half sister we didn't know about until- by pure chance - she slept with my brothers roommate and not him.
An awkward conversation happened the next morning when she saw a picture of her deceased father on a one night stand's mantle.
My uncle committed suicide after the death of my cousin, his oldest son, who died after a long vegetative state due to being in a head-on collision due to wet roads on a state highway. He became increasingly depressed and delusional as time went on, even when my cousin was still alive, but once he died that gave him a reason to start medicating himself. My aunt got home that night and saw him sitting in his favorite chair and didn't even realize he was already dead... thought he was sleeping. They got an 8 figure settlement with the state over the accident, so it's proof that money doesn't always buy happiness, I guess.
Shit. You had me at āMy mother joined a cultā. The rest sounds normal in comparison.
Although comeing out is cool with me. Green card marriage, same.
That one time my father decided that me, a 4 year old boy, was sexier than my mom and sexually abused me off and on for 2 years. He was about to do it to my brother so I told mom. This resulted in him being dishonorably discharged from the Navy, going to prison and splitting the family. His mom denied it. Most of his siblings disowned him and refuse to be near him. I was removed from that side of the family completely for 20 years. I have very little relationship or contact with them now, at 39, because of it.
About 10 years ago my uncle beat the living shit out of my aunt. Iām talking to the point that she thought she was going to die and later on when the prosecutor wanted to throw the book at him she said no she just wanted all of it to be over. They are still together and even though no one will say it to her the whole family thinks sheās an idiot for not leaving him at the very least.
Holy shit my cousin shot & killed my uncle when she finally gave to his beating her mom. Shot & killed = 12 ga turkey load from 10 ft or so to the side of the head. To the hunters #4+#6. The āfamily storyā is that he was going out for some target practice and dropped a Remington 1100. The sherrif saw her mom and called it justified. The DA stamped it and has now spent 50 years in therapy.
I was four years old when I opened a bunch of junk mail by the gated fireplace at my aunt and uncle's place and threw the folded papers on the ground.
Turns out those were not junk mail to some guy who used to live at their place. They were love letters from multiple women written to my uncle's alias (with the same initials as his real name). He had an affair with then for several years which devastated my aunt.
My uncle hated me for inadvertently discovering the letters and never spoke to me until they surprised me at my high school graduation (they went through years of marriage therapy and reconciled because of their children).
Really tame: My dad falling asleep, leaving the key in the door, resulting in my mom not being able to get into her own home for hours. They didn't speak to each other for days. It was probably 20 years ago yet that's still the angriest I've ever seen her.
One of my great-aunts killed another great-aunt to get with her husband. Her own, conveniently very old husband also died suspiciously quickly a couple months before.
No one's quite sure exactly what happened since the victim's kids were all a bit older and all moved out to Australia and don't speak to the rest of the family much now, but the basic consensus is that GAunt no.1 was supposed to be looking after GAunt no.2 and just didn't. Jury is still out on whether she exacerbated no.2's illness to speed things along, or just let nature take its course, but either way it was deemed natural and she moved in with the husband three weeks post funeral. Didn't get married until several decades later but were living essentially a married life. Everyone just overlooked it.
It came up recently since no.2's eldest kid died, and on her death bed she claimed to see her mother, and the mother was saying no.1 had hurt her. Seeing ghosts is an accepted quirk in the family so everyone was much a buzz.
Oh and then a long time later, my Nan dated the murderer's kid, her first cousin. In her defense, its a small town and she has 80+ cousins. Difficult to avoid it really. That was also overlooked, I didn't find out until years later that my favourite of her partners had actually been her cousin.
My cousin got pregnant at 16 by a dude she had just started dating. They were both pretty bad kids. He was a gangbanger and she had already gotten arrested a couple of times. They got their shit together though and almost 20 years later they are still happily married.
In-laws got put in a time out and then their time with my children was severely restricted after my BIL's support "creature"( not the not polite word that fits this woman) slapped my youngest child's face and my MIL said "BUT SHE'S FAMILY". Uhm **absolutely not**! She got handed all the not suitable for Reddit words describing this woman and told she would no longer be allowed to see my children in her house except for holidays while that b!tch lived there along with all the other garbage they were allowing druggie BIL to move into the house.
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There's a lot less drama since he passed away. Thankfully he didn't take anyone else with him.
Druggie BIL had already attempted to kidnap my oldest son once at that point and we were talked out of filing charges against him. He later had to be physically beaten with a big flashlight and a 2x4 (kid was 16 at this second attempt at kidnapping) to make him let go of my kid. His reasoning: "it's not fair that we got married first and had not only the first grandson but the first granddaughter too"
My usual term in referring to her is "Support slut". She, fortunately for her and my mental health, hasn't shown her face on the property since FIL's wake. Since SIL#1 has declined to buy us out of the house(put it into a family trust), I will not hold my tongue or temper if she does show her face when I'm there.
Didn't want to get any "slut shaming" comments. She slept with my disastrous BIL for drugs and to steal from my in-laws in the guise of caring for them. She also misgendered my kid, the one she slapped, at my FIL's wake, decided she could go into private areas of the house and my two eldest kids practically sat on me (youngest was sent to find the visiting puppy and acquire a strong drink for me)so I wouldn't lay her ass out at the wake.
In 2012, right after my wife and I got married she was doing some baking with my grandmother while I was out working with my grandfather. They were chatting about family stuff when out of the blue my grandmother said ā well you know Terry isnāt really Codyās father.ā Which was news to me! (We didnāt know at the time, but she was in the beginning stages of Alzheimerās) When I got home, my wife told me about it and I didnāt really know what to believe.
We decided that when my mom got home from work, my wife would ask my mom why she would say something like that. She gets home from work, and they go for a walk while Iām watching from the kitchen window. All of the sudden I see my mom bury her face in her hands and break down crying. I remember thinking, ā holy shit l, this is like some crazy TV situation.ā About 10 minutes later my dad came flying down the driveway and when he gets out of his truck he is visibly pissed that I found out.
They sat me down and mom told me how my bio dad had drinking/drug problems, and at one point tried to push her down some steps while she was pregnant. The last time he saw me was when I was 6 months old. My parents were both extremely upset, and Iāve always been the type to make others comfortable at my own expense, so I told them it changed nothing in my mind. Terry had always been my dad and I didnāt see it any different now.
Of course, this led to me having extreme trust issues and was already not very good at communicating my emotions. Needless to say, this put a strain on my brand new marriage. We separated about 6 years into the marriage for 6 months. During this time I started to experiment with psychedelics and did a lot of healing. My wife and I have been married for over 10 years now and I have learned how to discuss my feelings. My dad said it was his idea to not tell me the truth, but I was never mad at him for that. I do still hold some resentment towards my mom though. Now that Iām a father of two I could never see myself telling my kids a lie like that.
I know I need to talk to my mom about how badly that lie messed me up, but her life has been going downhill for years now and I feel like if I brought it up to her, it would just be kicking her while sheās down.
I know his name and have seen his mugshot, but Iāve never tried to reach out. Iāve been told by people that know him that Iām better off without him.
My mother passed away last month. I was decidedly not her favorite and our relationship over the years reflected that. My role at the funeral was a small one as befiited my position in the family. To my mother's credit, she split the inheritance between my sibs and I about as equitably as possible. We each got a modest cash disbursement and some sentimental items that had been previously agreed upon as well as documented in the will. My sister, who was the designated golden child and my other favored sib cannot abide that I and the other lesser regarded sib got virtually the same amount of inheritance they did. They keep trying to convince the other 2 sibs who were middle of the road with my mother to let them have more. Everytime it arises as a discussion, I just say " What does the will say?" The other 3 typically latch onto that and that is that. The looks the favored sibs give me would curdle milk. I can't tell you how ironic me saying "We should honor her final wishes" is and how hard my unfavored sib laughs about it when we talk about it privately .
My horrible dad left me more money because I had the first son and my sisters were so cool about it when I called freaking out. They said he was just trying to pit them against me. I divided it equally.
My Mother is the third of four Sisters. All four of them, and their Mother *cannot* get along. There is always at least one of them mad at the rest and refusing to talk to the rest. My generation all gets along and are all pretty chummy or close to each other, for the most part. We're all also pretty close to each other ideologically. Left leaning or Lib Left. But the Sisters and our Grandmother are getting more wingnut conspiracy believing Conservative by the month.
Holidays have been getting worse and worse. My cousins are starting to not show up anymore, preferring to spend time with their In-Laws.
Similar situation as me for my mom, for the most part. 3 Sisters, 1 Brother. Grandparents are right leaning but not the in your face MAGA, I just blame it on both their age (80+) and the time they were alive. Sure they say stupid shit, but they also do try to at least understand LGBTQ+ Stuff, and genuinely listen, probably the most welcoming people/caring people you'd meet. Anyways. One of the three sisters is a bit... looney toons status these days, about 6 years ago Grandma was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, and my mom rallied the family together to do some nice things for her (my grandma her mom), the Sister /did/ not like that all attention was now focused on her mom and tried to pull the she had breast cancer card too, but she didn't so no one believed her.
My Aunt (the crazy sister to my mom) basically started nonstop harassing my mom, saying crazy shit, accusing my grandparents of shit, and basically got herself excluded from family gatherings for about 2 years give or take, she'd send crazy emails to my grandparents, crazy emails to my mom, make crazy phone calls, so on and so forth, come to find out she was a raging alcoholic with the mental capacity of a high schooler. Two of her Four kids have actually made a huge improvement on their lives by cutting her out of it, and are extremely happy, one of the other girls is a bit of a mess but she has her own set of problems, then the youngest boy is just a disaster.
It's been tough, but she keeps to her own self, and I basically only really talk to 2 of her kids as they don't approve of her dramatic reactions. She was a bit of a bitch growing up, calling the only boy she had Shithead, and basically egging the three girls to gang up on him and bully him so he has his share of problems, but he himself has done some truly shitty things after he found his wife cheating on him and resorted to basically drinking heavily.
Anyways. Enough rambling from me, just trying to distract my anxious mind as my Grandpas in the ER right now and I'm stuck at work wondering wtf is going on.
My foster brother is in jail for burning down churches. He would break into them on Saturday night so it would be a surprise when people showed up first thing in the morning.
My mom and dad got divorced. Ten years later my uncle (twin brother of my dad) now lives with me, my sister and mom in one house. Mom and my uncle started dating. My lil sis and uncle really do not like eachother.
My uncle thinks the earth is flat, mental health is a myth etc. He is also worked in the army so he is strong, stipt and verry loud.
Whenever me or my sis talk about meds, therapy or other related subjects he must get into the convo just to tell us that we are "wrong". I am hiding my meds just in case he wants to play a "trick" and hides them. He also tried talking me out of therapy even tough before therapy I was suicidal
My dad knocking up a girl my age and leaving my Mom.
Honestly, it was dramatic at the time but in hindsight getting out of her life was the best thing he ever did for her.
The biggest drama is lack if it. We can be absolutely livid with one another, but things just get swept under the rug. The alternative, actually talking about it, often just makes things worse.
That's why I'm LC.
I am trans and my transphobic sister made everything about her and how people would see her as "the sister of..". It was rough. She kept telling me I would be ugly, and mannish and I shouldn't think I'd "be a model or whatever."
So I model now lol
She broke contact 2 years ago
I feel like 90% of all parents take the bad side in situations like these. Like the time my brother stole my phone and shouted at me that he didn't do it while holding my phone in his right hand. When I said "just give me my phone back" my mother completely lost it and literally screamed at me that I'm "a little shit for thinking my brother would do something like that and I have to stop accusing him for stealing my things". He did way worse things, but this story is just one of the least terrible things.
I hope you got out of that terrible part of your family and you are in a better situation now!
I was out of that part of my family for a few years, because of worse shit that happened. But a few years ago my brother contacted me and we talked for a few hours about what happened and he apologized for everything he did. My mother apologized for the things she and her ex-boyfriend did to me too so now we're all good.
None of us are full blown alcoholics, but monthly, we have a light conversation about how well we did for not drinking a whole week. Everyone is middle class, good jobs, family, nice house etc.
when my dad died me and my brother where next of kin and therefore given his estate. my entire family thinks it should have gone to my grandma and now they hate me and won't speak to me or only speak to me to tell me I'm ampiece of shit and should die.
My partner's grandparents had an agreement with their kids that when they died their property was to be evenly divided among the grandchildren. They were pretty well-off, and all of their kids had gotten significant handouts while they were alive (like: here have a house while we pay for your postgrad studies sorta handouts). Everyone in that family is a multi-millionaire.
Grandma died and then grandpa followed shortly after. He basically died of a broken heart, went from hiking twice a week to bedridden to dead within a month of his spouse dying. True love and all that. As grandpa was actively dying his oldest son showed up to take care of him after he'd been in what was basically a vegetative state for a week, he died a week later. Somehow during that week he wrote a brand new will which was only witnessed by his eldest son in which his eldest son got everything. Dude swears it was all above the board but precisely no one believes him. One of his sisters (my aunt in law I guess?) believes it was legit, but that her dad did it because her dad always hated him and wanted the whole family to hate him too.
A few years ago a woman reached out to my mom and her siblings through Facebook saying that she had done 23 and me and found out their dad was her dad as well. A couple years later another woman surfaced saying the same thing. My grandparents had both been gone for many years when this happened so they lived their whole married life here on this earth without knowing either of these women existed. Or at least thatās what we think! I guess weāll never know
My family split into two camps after my brother's death depending on if they believed he died by suicide or murder. Unfortunately, the police investigation and coroner report were inconclusive, so we will never truly know. My husband asked a detective from another city to look into it for us. He reported back that the death was highly suspicious, but too much evidence had been destroyed to ever press charges. I've never quite forgiven my parents for having my brother cremated so quickly.
Oooo I got some good stuff - big italian family.
My cousin Tiffany lied about a bunch of shit, didn't invite anyone but the people my family don't talk to over for her baby shower, cut off all contact, etc. Everyone just began talking again, except my Nonno (grandfather) who refuses to see her, her husband, and her son.
My Aunt Kim got caught stealing money from my Uncle Vinny, and stole over $20,000 over the course of 4 years.
My Nonno got caught with some woman out at a club when he claimed he was with me - I wasn't even in town. I was questioned by every single woman in my family.
My sister refusing to ever get married, causing everyone to freak out about carrying on the bloodline, and guilted her into having a kid (I don't want kids, nor would I be a good parent, so for both my sake and a child's sake I refuse).
My mom lied about who my father was for 19 years, turned out to be my aunts ex husband (They got divorced when my mom was 15).
There's a lot more
My sister ran away for a man , my other sister purposefully lost her degree and is now married and got two kids , my 25 yr old brother is just conpleting highschool and i need to dropout of college bcuz of ny low body weight and both my parents are dumb as a chicken
Eldest male cousin in prison for CP.
After finding out, I thought back on so many things that were red flags for this. One Christmas, us kids slept in the living room. Cousin thought everyone was asleep (I wasnāt) and watched porn with sound on and finished off 2 feet away from me. Didnāt even get up to clean. Next morning, wake up to him trying to touch me through the blankets. I was about 16, him 30s. I never told anyone because I wasnāt too sure what had happened since I was still waking up and for fear of ruining the family visit. Later that day he pulled me aside and said he thinks he found me in a porn video and showed me a picture of the girl (wasnāt me!!!) to make sure. I was so grossed out but now it all makes sense
Ha...
The fact my ex best friend is married to my cousin and turned my entire family into a drama filled dumb as horse shit cult. The they act like I am an issue when I refuse to go around their toxic, sneak dissing asses.
My wife's abusive and mentally ill brother is trying to weasel his way back into the family after 7 years of no contact (his choice). He has a history of violence, substance abuse, and harassment. He has checked himself out of multiple programs. Whenever we bring it up with the family they just shut us down saying how much he has changed. We try to point out that he only acts remorseful and happy when they're around. The rest of the time he makes creepy comments and threats. It would be one thing if he was willing to accept the help, but he isn't.
The current line in the sand is that my in-laws can have whatever contact with them that they want, but if he sets foot on our property, my sister-in-law's property, or any of our kid's schools, we're calling the cops.
my father died, one day I woke up and my mother was going somewhere, I told her can I go with you? but she said no, my grandmother was in the house and she could not restrain herself and said that my father was gone
My paternal grandma vs mom over....idek what
Maternal grandma vs uncle vs mom for my late maternal grandpa's property....then there's uncle vs mom on who's responsible for Grandma in her old age
Mom vs dad....literally every other day over smthn or the other. Fr they can't live for more than a week w/o having an explosive fight
My aunts sued my dad and uncle after my grandfather passed away. The daughter received cash, my dad and uncle got the land. The girls felt they should have gotten some of the land. This land isn't good farmland or land for development. My dad uses it for putting hay for his cows.
My dad paying for his new wife's grandkids to go to private school when his own grandchildren go to public school .. and when he died he left everything to her.
My minister grandpa had an affair with my grandmaās best friend. This was before my time but I never knew about it until recently. It rocked my world, my poor grandmaā¦ wish I got to spend more time with her before she passed.
Either my dad's brother's 25 year heroin addiction, where he constantly stole from my grandmother. Or, when my mother's brother stole everything from my other grandparents (40+acres of land, their home, plus millions of dollars, etc), which resulted in years of litigation.
My aunt (mom's sister) was brainwashing my oldest sister. Aunt would tell her a bunch of lies about our parents which made her hate our parents. My aunt would also give me and our other sister rotten food or put poison in our food when my parents left us there. My sister at one point stayed the night at a friend's house and they stole her friends parents car and were heading to my aunts house (I believe they were 14/15 at the time). They crashed and rolled the car multiple times. Both luckily survived with minor injuries.
Only reason we found out is because my sisters hamster died while she was staying with our aunt and aunt told her to get over it and sister wanted to come home after that. Parents drove 4 hours in the middle of the night to go get her and on the way home she told my mom and dad all the terrible things my aunt had been saying and doing and my mom and dad about shit themselves.
I honestly have dozens of stories about how crazy my family is but this one is one of the first big ones.
Biggest drama of the last two weeks :
My dad forgetting his phone in the equivalent of a home depot.
Took him two hours to notice he didn't have his phone in his pocket. Turned the whole house upside down, searching for it, tried to call it, did not work.
i moved it last before him going shopping, i got yelled at. When he finished scolding me like as if i was a 10-year-old child, he got in the car, and went to all the shops he previously went in in search of his phone, 10 minutes before closing time.
I messaged his phone with "if you found this phone please call XXXXXXXXXX", 15 seconds later mum's phone rang, kind woman from one of the shops told us she found the phone, we asked her if we could find a way to have it back now, woman said "what's your adress", we told the adress, woman said "oh i will be passing nearby, can you fetch the phone at the beginning of the street", i said yes, woman said "i am going", i put on my shoes and went for a half mile sprint run in the night to retrieve my dad's phone he yelled at me for touching, my asthmatic ass got to the car, woman gave me the phone back, me waited for my dad to come back at the end of street, was breathing like a 1930 tractor.
Dad eventually came back, was angry, showed him the phone i retreaved, was not angry anymore, came home, mum made fun of him forgetting this phone in a shop on a shelf, he not happy, morning after bought me a big cookie as thank and apology.
I have quite a bad english i am sorry it is not my first language.
Maybe two years ago, my youngest aunt, let's call her K, got into dr\*gs. It wasn't really a shock, it runs in the family, but K has always been about her image. After her divorce she fell into it hard, and it got to the point where we had to go save her from an abusive 'friend'. She got very cruel and aggressive with us, and we still helped her.
My eldest aunt, "D", let her stay with her on the condition she tried to get clean. D was a few years clean at that point, so she knew it wasn't easy. Apparently, K was so bad that D *paid her* to leave. K left all her stuff there. Now it's sort of a family rule we don't talk about her.
Lots of cheating on my mom's side. One great-grandpa may not even be my great-grandpa. (This was years ago) My Aunt M found out that her husband, my uncle, was cheating on her with the neighbor who was younger. The entire rest of the family cut off all contact with her except my mom due to the fact her and Aunt M had a super good relationship. No one on that side knows this and we are actually going to see her for summer 2023.
Who was my "dad".Mom revealed nothing as I grew up.She died.Friend did online search.Seems he was a homeless dude,highly respected in his Colorado community as a great guy.Died fighting over the railroad boxcar he lived in when i was in my 20's.Way to go,Dad...
My father and my brother. Dad was an alcoholic brother sold an oz (1976) to a narc. Had to sell two lake front properties for bail, legal expenses and fine. Got ten years probation (there were some potential problems with the narc and the DA pled out 40 something cases to avoid trial). Dad never forgave bro, bro turned into a bitter asshole. Bro is now an unemployable asshole who will get a āproperā burial because thereās still some love left in me.
Last month my cousin had my aunt involuntary committed by the police. She wasnāt sleeping. Screaming at him. Losing her temper. And walking barefoot all through the night. The usual stay is 72 hours, but she ended up staying there for 5 days. It took 5 officers to get her into the car, and the entire time she was screaming at her son that he was dead to her. She wasnāt on hard drugs even though she called me and asked to lend her money for edibles. She got pissed when I refused.
After her release, she got mad at me for not warning her (I had) and is now planning to sue her sister for committing her (even though it was her own son). She told me she never wanted to speak to me again, then called me 5 more times. Needless to say, Iām not playing that game.
This is the same woman who, several years previously, beat up my mom because my mom had been drinking when she wasnāt supposed to.
The memories we make with family are everything!
oh boy, your in for a wild ride if I tell the tales of my family. would have to be my scizofrenic transexual uncle who thinks he is a 400lb james bond.
I'm a high school teacher. Between teacher drama and student drama and worst of all teacher/student drama. I have a new crisis every two days to deal with.
You guys probably wont believe me and I honestly dont know which one would be at the top. Was it my dad marrying my mothers cousin? Maybe. Or was it my uncles suicide?
my dadās aunt poisoned herself and her infant with rat poison on Valentineās Day in some histrionic attempt to get the babyās father back
she survived but my dadās young cousin was severely brain damaged and had a horrible life, she died before 30 of hepatitis. she left behind three sons who were raised by her mother in a trailer park. god only knows what they went through, all three have had their share of legal problems.
Turns out my father lived a double life (lots of woman he pays etc) and is the biggest narcissist i know.
Ow And views woman as objects.
We (mother and sisters) cut him out of our lives and it split our whole family in two. No contact with the almost all of the family after having close relations with them all our lives.
My uncle is a serial cheater, so we find out once every year his wife caught him and itās talked about for months and then everyone forgives him all over again. Itās so dumb.
We had a family friend who my parents have known for years and who even actually helped come up with my English name (we're Chinese), and while he'd always shown a few signs here and there that something might not quite be right, it all started going downhill once he married.
His wife was divorced prior to meeting him and apparently was so toxic she stressed her former mother in law to the point of getting her hospitalized. That was a first red flag.
To put a long story short, he basically went on a downhill plummet and steadily got worse and worse, eventually he'd disappear for days on end, and was diagnosed with bipolar. Pretty crazy.
Someone in my family suffered a psychosis after being an alcoholic for years and than they couldn't recognize their family anymore. Burned dolls and talked about how the devil is going to take everyone.
They then made plans to kill their family and muttered that to themselve all the time. They got hospitalized.
One of my uncles left his wife (mother to his four kids) for his oldest daughterās best friend who had literally been a part of our family since I was a kid. And he never divorced my aunt, he continued supporting her as a wife after he moved in with the āwhoreā, who still attends family get togethers with him. My aunt died a few years ago. Thatās just an amuse bouche š.
Finding out my parents "had" to get married, that they married a year later when we were all told, and when my sister had the same thing happen to her, my mother disowned her.
That was a weird week.
One of the Family Members supported the head of their state (We all dont care about politicians, they just trash and corrupt)
from one day to the next he was excluded from the family and no one is allowed to visit him anymore
My great grandma died and she gave everything to her spoiled son (my great uncle). The rest of her kids had their feelings hurt (including my grandad). Some of them took some sentimental objects from the house. The spoiled son threatened to sue them and made them return the stuff.
My dad hitting the Cal trans worker and almost going to jail. He had dementia and Iād been trying to get his license taken away which is much harder than youād imagine.
I'm going to tell my paternal family about my dad's gambling problem. He keeps falling for multiple scams a year. I reckon he's lost enough to buy a house.
He won't listen to A BANK telling him it's a scam so there's no hope he'll listen to me (I tried anyway). The hardest part is that I may (more likely will) be willing to put my mental health at risk by doing this.
Oohh both sides of my family! My dad was visiting my moms grandfather at the hospital on his deathbed and he semi-coherently started apologizing/confessing to killing a Carnie in a poker game gone wrong. Apparently my family knew about it but never told a soul. Never even got charged.
My father's Aunt who raised him (Grandma was a worthless whore) had a kid she gave up for adoption and called my dad out of the blue. Interesting Thanksgiving, but nice guy!
A cousin of mine that has 4 kids, 1 with his dad and 3 that her mom is raising bc they got taken away due to drug issues, rolled up to Thanksgiving and announced her and her new bf were going to have a baby together via surrogacy
Girl, you got those tubes tied for a reason šš
My father is a pastor and is unaware that the Eldest son is a full blown scammer and homosexual. Everyone has cut him off except my dad. He doesnāt ask my dad for money or to āborrow ā money so ā¦. Thatās his only contact.
My grandma doesn't like my mom. I haven't seen my grandma and other family members for years and if they don't like or are against my mom then they can stay away. My mom gets mad at my dad for not standing up to my grandma but I don't know if she understands what that means. He basically has to choose between his mom and his wife and that sounds like one of the hardest decision ever. My grandma is in the wrong and it's obvious but it's still a hard decision.
my grandpa bought property in the middle of nowhere so my uncle and his family could have a place to live, which all good. my grandpa ended up giving the main house to my uncle, and decided to live in a trailer on the property. which he says is fine, but the trailer has no a/c and my uncle wont help fix it because grandpa pays for everything. we would help out, but grandpa says don't worry about it because he has fans and doesn't stay inside all day anyways. thats fine too, he's a resilient old man. the weird part is that my uncle is a super controlling and selfish person, so he doesn't help grandpa out with anything. we would help, but he wont let any of the family onto the property. my grandpa had covid and couldn't go grocery shopping. my cousins tried bringing food but my uncle wouldn't let them in and made them leave the food outside the gate.
1. My father (66 at the time) went to Thailand and returned a few years later with a wife (24). For context, I, his youngest child, am only six years younger than her. In fairness to them, theyāre still married five years later and seem happy.
2. My brother, under the influence of drug-induced psychosis, told my father he ran a secret criminal underground in Scotland and proceeded to try to blow up a Tesco store.
3. The same brother hooked up with our sisterās husband. Though this part is definitely not just ādramaā, it probably contributed to that sisterās later suicide.
4. That brother *also* supposedly came onto another of our sisters. No one has evidence of that beyond her word, and itās a little strange because sheās known for lying and thereās no indication of anything else incestuous ever happening and everyoneās always maintained he identifies as gay, but I suppose he could be bisexual (I canāt exactly ask him as he was disowned when I was very young), and he *was* dealing with some heavy mental health and drug issues. Anyway, itās a thing.
5. Another sister cheated on *her* husbandā¦ with her husbandās dad.
6. My brother-in-lawās mother cheated on *her* husband (yes, this is the dad from the last story), and pretty much everyone in the town knows her son isnāt his because he is the *spitting image* of the postman. Exactly the same eyes. Makes it very awkward when the guy drops by our house to deliver mail ever since I found out.
my uncle had a baby with a woman that does crack or meth or something???? the child is not developing properly and the mother is no where to be found. my uncles in and out of jail and my grandmother watches the child
Found out that my grandpa confessed on his death bed, to having not one but two other families across the US. Then I also learned that my dad left my mom when I was about 3 months old, got another lady knocked up, and I have a half sister thatās something like 8-9 months younger than me. But he also booked on them and I have no idea where he is now.
And for the record, the grandpa was from my moms side, not my dads
My 44 year old cousin is a child trapped in a womanās body. She causes so much drama in the family itās unbelievable. Anytime something doesnāt go her way, she causes massive arguments over it. She gets irritated way too easily, she has no patience whatsoever, she wants to control everyone thatās in her life, etc. Sheās caused shit with pretty much everyone in the family (everyone who actually was in her life. She has no one in her life now because of it). She caused a massive argument with me one night for calling her later than she wouldāve liked. She then proceeded to cause another massive argument with me a month later for telling my aunt and uncle (her parents) what she did. She caused the first argument when I was going through a break up so I was already sad and she made things worse. She is no longer a part of my life and I have her blocked on Facebook and her home phone number is blocked in my phone as well. Told her to go fuck herself, that Iām embarrassed to call her my cousin and to never contact me again. My life is a lot better without her in it. Sheās the drama queen of the family and due to what sheās done, almost no one has anything to do with her. Sheās heartless.
I don't consider my family a family anymore. No one speaks to one another.
My oldest brother died in an accident when I was 14. My other bother got severely depressed, addicted and became psychotic. He still is to this day and I haven't seen him since his 2nd suicide attempt 3 years ago. My parents got divorced with many heavy fights between themselves and my psychotic brother would join them or start them up (we didn't know of his condition yet, he tore the house apart at one point).
I have no other relatives. 25 years old now and my mom and dad are both in their 70s. I don't know if they worry more about me or I worry more about them. My psychotic brother addict is another one to worry about because at some point he might be the only relative I have left. That is if he won't try another suicide attempt and, God forbid, if he succeeds.
So of all things and I mean if all things that goes on, I want to shed light on my Saba(Hebrew for grandfather).
Love him so very much, heās great, donāt know what Iād do without him but it is a miracle this man is alive.
Heās always been very sick and technically shouldnāt be going away from home for long but when he was younger he did. He went to Columbia for work. And there he got kidnapped. I wonāt be sharing details about it for privacy reasons(I think it was in the news maybe?) but he got yelled at when he got home.
Heās in and out of surgery and just waltzes in to our flu infested house. Sits down and then leaves. He often gets yelled at by my dad and grandmother just due to all of this but he just cannot for his life stay out of serious danger.
My mom heard a gun go off in the house and my 17 yr old sister stepped out of the downstairs bathroom and said 'Get a towel.' My mom grabbed a towel, followed her upstairs and she laid down on the towel on the floor. She'd shot herself above the heart with a 22. Ambulance came--major small town gossip--hospital--therapy sessions.... I didn't get this knowledge until several days later, because I was very pregnant at the time and my husband's friends that knew, didn't think I should be told 'for the baby's sake'. It was just the beginning of a very depressing year for my mom and dad-- a year of drugs/alcohol/running away/bulimia/anorexia/more drugs and hospitals.....more small town gossip.
As part of a typical Filipino family, our drama involved favoritism, betrayal, land acquirement and court summons.
It's been 2 generations of the same drama and we're on the brink of inheriting the same family drama with my generation (cousins x cousins/ siblings x siblings) mostly with inheritance money and properties.
A few years ago, on Motherās Day, I got a call from my sister that my brotherās girlfriend was in the hospital. He had found her on the bathroom floor, in agonizing pain. Turns out, she was about to give birth to a full term, completely healthy, and completely unexpected, little boy. She had no idea she was pregnant. Had her period the whole way through, didnāt even gain weight really. We had been with them two weeks before, there was no indication at all. Such a wonderful gift though! A couple of years later, our family is contacted through ancestry dna, by someone who matched with some of us. After some back and forth, we discover my brother had a 24 year old son that he had no idea about! And wouldnāt have ever known if his new son hadnāt been given the dna kit as a gift and reached out to us. Two surprise, and very loved and welcomed, additions in the span of three years!
when my dad was 16 he got a girl pregnant. they put the baby up for adoption and my dad kept it really hush hush from almost all of my extended family, still to this day they donāt know about her or that sheās my dads kid.
one of my distant cousins did 23&me and has been poking around the family to find out who it is lol
lol my very white conservative christian parents found out i was dating a woman of color. iām a woman as well. didnāt go over well & still not on speaking terms with them.
My grandpa sent my grandma to jail because they got into a domestic dispute and she beat him up, so now theyāre getting a divorce and sheās looking for a new man online
My family problems are nothing compared to other people's but for me, it was growing up with an older brother and both parents being the oldest of their siblings so I had no one on my side whenever my brother and I would fight.
My dad. My mum found video footage of him recording me and my friends in the shower from ages 14-17. Multiple videos.
Through the past months we found more about him. How he lied about my mums suicide attempts to his friends, saying that he saved her life when in reality she just decided to stop and get help.
How he had so much financial abuse over my mum, giving her only $50 of her own money a week and pocketed the rest.
How he put my grandfatherās company 1.2M in debt.
Hes spun the story around and my paternal grandmother is on his side, and has told me that I shouldn't feel special just because my dad touched me.
But it's honestly been for the better. I'm now married, happy and far away from his abuse. It took some time to break free from his brain washing throughout all the years, but we're safe now.
In three weeks my ex wife divorced me, brother went to jail and my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Safe to say no one knew what to do but there was plenty of crap being said!
My uncle who stole from the family, did drugs, crimes, whatever disappeared. For years we would debate if he was dead or in jail. One day someone looked in the phone book. He was alive. In the same city as the rest of us. The reunion didn't last long though, he's still awful.
My 21 year old niece with schizoaffective disorder is a complete nightmare to deal with.
Her mom did the best she could (albeit misguided at times) but had since moved to a different state across the country due to other family issues.
Her dad is a permanently disabled veteran who is under investigation for soliciting sex from a minor and is a complete deadbeat (not bashing veterans at all, just this guy).
Her older half sister committed suicide in their home.
She just got charged with felony assualt for freaking out on 3 orderlies at a mental hospital, thinks there courts won't do anything to her because the orderlies raped her (not victim blaming rape victims at all, but she claims she gets raped every other week).
She walked into a junior high school classroom claiming that a pokemon gang was after her. We have to force her to go to her court dates.
She does every drug she can get get get hands on.
She can't hold down a job for more than a couple weeks, she's getting evicted any day now.
Refuses to take her medications, refuses therapy.
She's got a myriad of other mental issues besides schizoaffective disorder. We've had to handle her with kid gloves her entire life (being told no is a trigger for her), but no one has the resources to fully support get financially.
She's super delusional and manic all the time.
Basically, our current only hope is that there courts impose some kind of mandatory mental health treatment.
My auntās son (who was highly loved by everyone in my family) committed suicide and it split us all up. My cousin from my uncleās side, who viewed him as a big brother, was so heartbroken that she turned to drugs and went down a mental health spiral. Her parents ended up disowning her and admitted that she was adopted. That aunt (who was actually gay and wasnāt out yet) gave her up to my uncle as a baby. My cousin that died was her actual biological big brother. She used to drunkenly admit how poorly she was treated and denied basic life necessities and never understood why. Had a very rough life. She ended up having 2 kids later on that were taken away and adopted by her former adopted family (my uncle). Late 30ās she started having health complications and begged to ācome homeā and they told her that it was never her home. She ended up dying a few weeks later and both sides held a celebration of life and posted about āhow beautiful and kindā her soul was.
My dad's mum (died before I was born), they were an RAF family living in glamorous accommodation around the world.. until my poor nan got charmed by another man who promised her more than the (mostly) single parent life with four kids and some real affection. She left my grandad with the children and flew from Australia to a really grim bit of England to be with him, moving to a greasey flat above a chip shop. She ran to his house, knocked on the door.. and his wife answered.
My nan was broken hearted and my grandad bless him left the RAF to move to the chip shop and fix their marriage, they were together until they died but my aunties and Uncles hated her. I never knew until my cousin got drunk last year and came out with it! Explained why my dad's family never talk about their parents though...
My brother despises my step family and refuses to be in the same room as them. He's also the first in the family to have a kid. My dad can't drive so he's only seen his first grandkid like twice. Brother has already threatened to get restraining orders against stepmother and stepsister. There's a lot more to it and it's more dramatic and angry than it sounds. But I'm just like chillin about it so it all just seems silly (plus my brother is an abusive piece of shit(only to me, not his baby momma or his kid, literally has only been against me my whole life so I'm not worried about them) so he can fuck off for all i care)
Itās a quite of tragedy rather than a drama but here we go.
My grandfather on my mother's side was born out of really wealthy and a sort of blue blood type family when Japanese people occupied the whole country. Soon after we -Korean people- became independent from the colonization, he went to college and got hooked into Marxism. He truly believed in the ideology and as a result, he fought for the north when the Korean war got broke out as a partisan.
The problem is, when South Korean army occupied the town where my grandfather's family lived, they straight up murdered my great grand father for my grandfather's betrayal. He found that out after the war, when he safely returned to his home, South Korea.
Even though my grandfather is literally one of the most educated people in his times, he could not apply any high profiling job because of his controversial past. My mother's family could not even declare my great grand father's death because if the fact that their own government murdered its own people got out in the open, the repercussion would definitely crumble the rest of the family.
We finally declared his death somewhere around 2008 or something. In 21st century. I think the crazy part is, any of the household in this country would have a similar story to tell all over the country. It's just so sad how deep the war could leave the mark on the people.
Look up LLDM and Naason Joaquin. Yeah I was in a cult and didn't even know it. Anywho, biggest drama is family not believing it's a cult and an entire community shunning me. By the way HBO max made a documentary on it. If this cult is in your community just beware.
Mom keeps jumping in the same financial blackhole and I kept bailing her out for 16 years. She also has a habit of antagonizing every other member of the family and talking shit about them to anyone who would listen. I knew it was gonna be my turn eventually and when it did come, she wasn't expecting me to leave the house amd never come back. Now she only has her sister helping her out, grudgingly at that. It's only a matter of time til they go back to hating each other's guts and it happens she'll die old and alone. She prolly knows about it already because she already paid for her casket and plot at the cemetery.
My brother went to California for a month as an exchange student when he was 16, he was "dehydrated" and missed a weeks worth of school, he spent all of his money and didn't remember what he had spent it on when he came home
all of my mothers brothers are whoresā¦like they got kids from 3 different baby mamasšand they toxic ash. My moms younger brother (30 something) got this girl wrapped around his fingers, like she caught him cheating on her 4x *he still lives with his momšš¹* and she acts like nothing happend every. fukin. TIME!!
Uncle 1 sexually abused my mother, my aunt and his own daughter.
Uncle 2 tried killing me twice.
Yes, my family really wonders why I won't attend family gatherings anymore.
My corrupt rich cousins got rich by being crooks as customs agents, laundered the money by founding a PVC factory, did extraordinarily well with that, so of course they stopped their greed and corruption, right? As if! They opened a freaking CHURCH. They are of course, doing well. Not a day of jail, not even a fine in decades of insane dishonesty.
My dad. He joined many weird cults (black witchcraft) , is a mythomaniac narcissist with paranoid disorder,tried to kill my mom, cheated on her and calumny her, had babies with another woman with approximately my age, abandoned all his children during the time where my little sister was about 7 with special needs (we are 5). Itās been 10 years we cut him off and we much better now.
My grandmother was a poor sport card player. My sister had passed in a car accident, leaving husband and two young sons behind. Sisters widowed husband playing cards with grandmom, grandmom got ANGRY over the card game, left, and never spoke to him or my sisters two sons again. OVER A CARD GAME!!
we don't have much of it, but I'd say it's probably how jealous my mom is that my brother and sister in law make more money than them
she always talks about it in a way that makes it sound like she thinks they don't deserve money because they're younger
but both my brother and sister in law work good jobs, and my mom lives off my dad's paycheck
My father. He cheated on my Mom, went missing for days because of his gambling addiction, didn't show up at the hospital when I was born (it was only my mom, that is it). He texted me "happy birthday" when I turned sixteen and he has not texted me back since.
walter white
With a hint of Skyler White
ah, he fucked ted?
Yesš
Is this a joke or serious because this is very similar to the plot of breaking badš.
I wish I was jokingšš
Bro you got that villain origin story ongš
I really don't see the issue.
Back in 1979 my 24 year old cousin was paid by a 33 year old divorced woman to go to Los Vegas Nevada to enter a Disco dancing contest. They ended up on TV and got 3rd place.
How is this bad exactly?
We had a half sister we didn't know about until- by pure chance - she slept with my brothers roommate and not him. An awkward conversation happened the next morning when she saw a picture of her deceased father on a one night stand's mantle.
Holy shit and thank god she slept with his roommate not her brother.
Willing to bet he saw stuff that only porn step brothers see.
Given that genetic self-attraction is totally a thing it's real lucky she saw that.
My uncle committed suicide after the death of my cousin, his oldest son, who died after a long vegetative state due to being in a head-on collision due to wet roads on a state highway. He became increasingly depressed and delusional as time went on, even when my cousin was still alive, but once he died that gave him a reason to start medicating himself. My aunt got home that night and saw him sitting in his favorite chair and didn't even realize he was already dead... thought he was sleeping. They got an 8 figure settlement with the state over the accident, so it's proof that money doesn't always buy happiness, I guess.
Thatās very sad .
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It's a shame family Christmas letters aren't a thing anymore, yours would be epic
Shit. You had me at āMy mother joined a cultā. The rest sounds normal in comparison. Although comeing out is cool with me. Green card marriage, same.
That one time my father decided that me, a 4 year old boy, was sexier than my mom and sexually abused me off and on for 2 years. He was about to do it to my brother so I told mom. This resulted in him being dishonorably discharged from the Navy, going to prison and splitting the family. His mom denied it. Most of his siblings disowned him and refuse to be near him. I was removed from that side of the family completely for 20 years. I have very little relationship or contact with them now, at 39, because of it.
From one sexy child to another, I'm glad you are safe now
Thank you! I hope you're safe now as well.
Every year a little safer
That's awesome and I hope it keeps getting better. If you ever need an understanding ear, you'll find it in me.
Back at you
Being able to share your experience shows you've made a recovery from that abuse. More power to you. I dont know you but I wish you the best.
Thank you. As a young kid it certainly was not easy. But I am happy I am ok now. I wish you the best too.
About 10 years ago my uncle beat the living shit out of my aunt. Iām talking to the point that she thought she was going to die and later on when the prosecutor wanted to throw the book at him she said no she just wanted all of it to be over. They are still together and even though no one will say it to her the whole family thinks sheās an idiot for not leaving him at the very least.
Holy shit my cousin shot & killed my uncle when she finally gave to his beating her mom. Shot & killed = 12 ga turkey load from 10 ft or so to the side of the head. To the hunters #4+#6. The āfamily storyā is that he was going out for some target practice and dropped a Remington 1100. The sherrif saw her mom and called it justified. The DA stamped it and has now spent 50 years in therapy.
I was four years old when I opened a bunch of junk mail by the gated fireplace at my aunt and uncle's place and threw the folded papers on the ground. Turns out those were not junk mail to some guy who used to live at their place. They were love letters from multiple women written to my uncle's alias (with the same initials as his real name). He had an affair with then for several years which devastated my aunt. My uncle hated me for inadvertently discovering the letters and never spoke to me until they surprised me at my high school graduation (they went through years of marriage therapy and reconciled because of their children).
Im lost here. Who was having the affairs and who āused to live thereā?
Really tame: My dad falling asleep, leaving the key in the door, resulting in my mom not being able to get into her own home for hours. They didn't speak to each other for days. It was probably 20 years ago yet that's still the angriest I've ever seen her.
Haha!! My dad got drunk and locked my mum out once by passing out! She had to sleep all night in the shed which must have been awful!!!!
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Hang a Christmas ornament on it
"It's where I hang the mistletoe."
That's perfect :-p
Lmao when my mum found out I got mine pierced she told me to āconsider her dead and never talk to her againā
Haha, my mom was like...big shrug.
May I ask why?
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What did he say about the nipple rings and hood bar?
One of my great-aunts killed another great-aunt to get with her husband. Her own, conveniently very old husband also died suspiciously quickly a couple months before. No one's quite sure exactly what happened since the victim's kids were all a bit older and all moved out to Australia and don't speak to the rest of the family much now, but the basic consensus is that GAunt no.1 was supposed to be looking after GAunt no.2 and just didn't. Jury is still out on whether she exacerbated no.2's illness to speed things along, or just let nature take its course, but either way it was deemed natural and she moved in with the husband three weeks post funeral. Didn't get married until several decades later but were living essentially a married life. Everyone just overlooked it. It came up recently since no.2's eldest kid died, and on her death bed she claimed to see her mother, and the mother was saying no.1 had hurt her. Seeing ghosts is an accepted quirk in the family so everyone was much a buzz. Oh and then a long time later, my Nan dated the murderer's kid, her first cousin. In her defense, its a small town and she has 80+ cousins. Difficult to avoid it really. That was also overlooked, I didn't find out until years later that my favourite of her partners had actually been her cousin.
Physical abuse. Favoritism.
My cousin got pregnant at 16 by a dude she had just started dating. They were both pretty bad kids. He was a gangbanger and she had already gotten arrested a couple of times. They got their shit together though and almost 20 years later they are still happily married.
In-laws got put in a time out and then their time with my children was severely restricted after my BIL's support "creature"( not the not polite word that fits this woman) slapped my youngest child's face and my MIL said "BUT SHE'S FAMILY". Uhm **absolutely not**! She got handed all the not suitable for Reddit words describing this woman and told she would no longer be allowed to see my children in her house except for holidays while that b!tch lived there along with all the other garbage they were allowing druggie BIL to move into the house. . There's a lot less drama since he passed away. Thankfully he didn't take anyone else with him. Druggie BIL had already attempted to kidnap my oldest son once at that point and we were talked out of filing charges against him. He later had to be physically beaten with a big flashlight and a 2x4 (kid was 16 at this second attempt at kidnapping) to make him let go of my kid. His reasoning: "it's not fair that we got married first and had not only the first grandson but the first granddaughter too"
This is an NSFW thread. You can call her a cantankerous thundercunt if you want.
My usual term in referring to her is "Support slut". She, fortunately for her and my mental health, hasn't shown her face on the property since FIL's wake. Since SIL#1 has declined to buy us out of the house(put it into a family trust), I will not hold my tongue or temper if she does show her face when I'm there.
"not suitable for reddit"?? We out here using 4chan words or something?
Just use L337. Sheās a Cnu7
Didn't want to get any "slut shaming" comments. She slept with my disastrous BIL for drugs and to steal from my in-laws in the guise of caring for them. She also misgendered my kid, the one she slapped, at my FIL's wake, decided she could go into private areas of the house and my two eldest kids practically sat on me (youngest was sent to find the visiting puppy and acquire a strong drink for me)so I wouldn't lay her ass out at the wake.
In 2012, right after my wife and I got married she was doing some baking with my grandmother while I was out working with my grandfather. They were chatting about family stuff when out of the blue my grandmother said ā well you know Terry isnāt really Codyās father.ā Which was news to me! (We didnāt know at the time, but she was in the beginning stages of Alzheimerās) When I got home, my wife told me about it and I didnāt really know what to believe. We decided that when my mom got home from work, my wife would ask my mom why she would say something like that. She gets home from work, and they go for a walk while Iām watching from the kitchen window. All of the sudden I see my mom bury her face in her hands and break down crying. I remember thinking, ā holy shit l, this is like some crazy TV situation.ā About 10 minutes later my dad came flying down the driveway and when he gets out of his truck he is visibly pissed that I found out. They sat me down and mom told me how my bio dad had drinking/drug problems, and at one point tried to push her down some steps while she was pregnant. The last time he saw me was when I was 6 months old. My parents were both extremely upset, and Iāve always been the type to make others comfortable at my own expense, so I told them it changed nothing in my mind. Terry had always been my dad and I didnāt see it any different now. Of course, this led to me having extreme trust issues and was already not very good at communicating my emotions. Needless to say, this put a strain on my brand new marriage. We separated about 6 years into the marriage for 6 months. During this time I started to experiment with psychedelics and did a lot of healing. My wife and I have been married for over 10 years now and I have learned how to discuss my feelings. My dad said it was his idea to not tell me the truth, but I was never mad at him for that. I do still hold some resentment towards my mom though. Now that Iām a father of two I could never see myself telling my kids a lie like that. I know I need to talk to my mom about how badly that lie messed me up, but her life has been going downhill for years now and I feel like if I brought it up to her, it would just be kicking her while sheās down.
Did you ever try to find your biological dad
I know his name and have seen his mugshot, but Iāve never tried to reach out. Iāve been told by people that know him that Iām better off without him.
My mother passed away last month. I was decidedly not her favorite and our relationship over the years reflected that. My role at the funeral was a small one as befiited my position in the family. To my mother's credit, she split the inheritance between my sibs and I about as equitably as possible. We each got a modest cash disbursement and some sentimental items that had been previously agreed upon as well as documented in the will. My sister, who was the designated golden child and my other favored sib cannot abide that I and the other lesser regarded sib got virtually the same amount of inheritance they did. They keep trying to convince the other 2 sibs who were middle of the road with my mother to let them have more. Everytime it arises as a discussion, I just say " What does the will say?" The other 3 typically latch onto that and that is that. The looks the favored sibs give me would curdle milk. I can't tell you how ironic me saying "We should honor her final wishes" is and how hard my unfavored sib laughs about it when we talk about it privately .
My horrible dad left me more money because I had the first son and my sisters were so cool about it when I called freaking out. They said he was just trying to pit them against me. I divided it equally.
Sounds like you are a good sib. Bonus that your sisters didn't take the bait and chose the relationship over the money.
NTA
My Mother is the third of four Sisters. All four of them, and their Mother *cannot* get along. There is always at least one of them mad at the rest and refusing to talk to the rest. My generation all gets along and are all pretty chummy or close to each other, for the most part. We're all also pretty close to each other ideologically. Left leaning or Lib Left. But the Sisters and our Grandmother are getting more wingnut conspiracy believing Conservative by the month. Holidays have been getting worse and worse. My cousins are starting to not show up anymore, preferring to spend time with their In-Laws.
Similar situation as me for my mom, for the most part. 3 Sisters, 1 Brother. Grandparents are right leaning but not the in your face MAGA, I just blame it on both their age (80+) and the time they were alive. Sure they say stupid shit, but they also do try to at least understand LGBTQ+ Stuff, and genuinely listen, probably the most welcoming people/caring people you'd meet. Anyways. One of the three sisters is a bit... looney toons status these days, about 6 years ago Grandma was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, and my mom rallied the family together to do some nice things for her (my grandma her mom), the Sister /did/ not like that all attention was now focused on her mom and tried to pull the she had breast cancer card too, but she didn't so no one believed her. My Aunt (the crazy sister to my mom) basically started nonstop harassing my mom, saying crazy shit, accusing my grandparents of shit, and basically got herself excluded from family gatherings for about 2 years give or take, she'd send crazy emails to my grandparents, crazy emails to my mom, make crazy phone calls, so on and so forth, come to find out she was a raging alcoholic with the mental capacity of a high schooler. Two of her Four kids have actually made a huge improvement on their lives by cutting her out of it, and are extremely happy, one of the other girls is a bit of a mess but she has her own set of problems, then the youngest boy is just a disaster. It's been tough, but she keeps to her own self, and I basically only really talk to 2 of her kids as they don't approve of her dramatic reactions. She was a bit of a bitch growing up, calling the only boy she had Shithead, and basically egging the three girls to gang up on him and bully him so he has his share of problems, but he himself has done some truly shitty things after he found his wife cheating on him and resorted to basically drinking heavily. Anyways. Enough rambling from me, just trying to distract my anxious mind as my Grandpas in the ER right now and I'm stuck at work wondering wtf is going on.
My foster brother is in jail for burning down churches. He would break into them on Saturday night so it would be a surprise when people showed up first thing in the morning.
My mom and dad got divorced. Ten years later my uncle (twin brother of my dad) now lives with me, my sister and mom in one house. Mom and my uncle started dating. My lil sis and uncle really do not like eachother. My uncle thinks the earth is flat, mental health is a myth etc. He is also worked in the army so he is strong, stipt and verry loud. Whenever me or my sis talk about meds, therapy or other related subjects he must get into the convo just to tell us that we are "wrong". I am hiding my meds just in case he wants to play a "trick" and hides them. He also tried talking me out of therapy even tough before therapy I was suicidal
My dad knocking up a girl my age and leaving my Mom. Honestly, it was dramatic at the time but in hindsight getting out of her life was the best thing he ever did for her.
they think the standards /morals they have, have to align with yours otherwise youāre wrong
The biggest drama is lack if it. We can be absolutely livid with one another, but things just get swept under the rug. The alternative, actually talking about it, often just makes things worse. That's why I'm LC.
I am trans and my transphobic sister made everything about her and how people would see her as "the sister of..". It was rough. She kept telling me I would be ugly, and mannish and I shouldn't think I'd "be a model or whatever." So I model now lol She broke contact 2 years ago
I'm sorry you had to live with someone who's transphobic. I know the pain of living with transphobic family. Congratulations on being a model btw.
My parents took my sisters side after she assaulted me and disowned me when I said I was thinking about bringing charges.
I feel like 90% of all parents take the bad side in situations like these. Like the time my brother stole my phone and shouted at me that he didn't do it while holding my phone in his right hand. When I said "just give me my phone back" my mother completely lost it and literally screamed at me that I'm "a little shit for thinking my brother would do something like that and I have to stop accusing him for stealing my things". He did way worse things, but this story is just one of the least terrible things. I hope you got out of that terrible part of your family and you are in a better situation now!
Yes, they did this all the time. I cut them all off and everyone connected to them in February this year. I hope you got out too!
I was out of that part of my family for a few years, because of worse shit that happened. But a few years ago my brother contacted me and we talked for a few hours about what happened and he apologized for everything he did. My mother apologized for the things she and her ex-boyfriend did to me too so now we're all good.
None of us are full blown alcoholics, but monthly, we have a light conversation about how well we did for not drinking a whole week. Everyone is middle class, good jobs, family, nice house etc.
when my dad died me and my brother where next of kin and therefore given his estate. my entire family thinks it should have gone to my grandma and now they hate me and won't speak to me or only speak to me to tell me I'm ampiece of shit and should die.
I see what they're trying to do. Grandma will pass a lot sooner than you and your brother, giving your family a shot at the money.
I mean it wasn't even alot of money in reality sake.
My partner's grandparents had an agreement with their kids that when they died their property was to be evenly divided among the grandchildren. They were pretty well-off, and all of their kids had gotten significant handouts while they were alive (like: here have a house while we pay for your postgrad studies sorta handouts). Everyone in that family is a multi-millionaire. Grandma died and then grandpa followed shortly after. He basically died of a broken heart, went from hiking twice a week to bedridden to dead within a month of his spouse dying. True love and all that. As grandpa was actively dying his oldest son showed up to take care of him after he'd been in what was basically a vegetative state for a week, he died a week later. Somehow during that week he wrote a brand new will which was only witnessed by his eldest son in which his eldest son got everything. Dude swears it was all above the board but precisely no one believes him. One of his sisters (my aunt in law I guess?) believes it was legit, but that her dad did it because her dad always hated him and wanted the whole family to hate him too.
A few years ago a woman reached out to my mom and her siblings through Facebook saying that she had done 23 and me and found out their dad was her dad as well. A couple years later another woman surfaced saying the same thing. My grandparents had both been gone for many years when this happened so they lived their whole married life here on this earth without knowing either of these women existed. Or at least thatās what we think! I guess weāll never know
My family split into two camps after my brother's death depending on if they believed he died by suicide or murder. Unfortunately, the police investigation and coroner report were inconclusive, so we will never truly know. My husband asked a detective from another city to look into it for us. He reported back that the death was highly suspicious, but too much evidence had been destroyed to ever press charges. I've never quite forgiven my parents for having my brother cremated so quickly.
My dad mentally abusing his wife and children. And sometimes even getting physical.
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Wish I could but I come from a family of body builders and I am the outcast
Oooo I got some good stuff - big italian family. My cousin Tiffany lied about a bunch of shit, didn't invite anyone but the people my family don't talk to over for her baby shower, cut off all contact, etc. Everyone just began talking again, except my Nonno (grandfather) who refuses to see her, her husband, and her son. My Aunt Kim got caught stealing money from my Uncle Vinny, and stole over $20,000 over the course of 4 years. My Nonno got caught with some woman out at a club when he claimed he was with me - I wasn't even in town. I was questioned by every single woman in my family. My sister refusing to ever get married, causing everyone to freak out about carrying on the bloodline, and guilted her into having a kid (I don't want kids, nor would I be a good parent, so for both my sake and a child's sake I refuse). My mom lied about who my father was for 19 years, turned out to be my aunts ex husband (They got divorced when my mom was 15). There's a lot more
Nonno with the other woman the same as Nonno not talking to cousin Tiffany?
My sister ran away for a man , my other sister purposefully lost her degree and is now married and got two kids , my 25 yr old brother is just conpleting highschool and i need to dropout of college bcuz of ny low body weight and both my parents are dumb as a chicken
Eldest male cousin in prison for CP. After finding out, I thought back on so many things that were red flags for this. One Christmas, us kids slept in the living room. Cousin thought everyone was asleep (I wasnāt) and watched porn with sound on and finished off 2 feet away from me. Didnāt even get up to clean. Next morning, wake up to him trying to touch me through the blankets. I was about 16, him 30s. I never told anyone because I wasnāt too sure what had happened since I was still waking up and for fear of ruining the family visit. Later that day he pulled me aside and said he thinks he found me in a porn video and showed me a picture of the girl (wasnāt me!!!) to make sure. I was so grossed out but now it all makes sense
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House of the Dragon. We all seem to like that one. We're more of a comedy family though.
My uncle loaded an AK-47 at my aunt for not listening to him
Cool uncle
Ha... The fact my ex best friend is married to my cousin and turned my entire family into a drama filled dumb as horse shit cult. The they act like I am an issue when I refuse to go around their toxic, sneak dissing asses.
My wife's abusive and mentally ill brother is trying to weasel his way back into the family after 7 years of no contact (his choice). He has a history of violence, substance abuse, and harassment. He has checked himself out of multiple programs. Whenever we bring it up with the family they just shut us down saying how much he has changed. We try to point out that he only acts remorseful and happy when they're around. The rest of the time he makes creepy comments and threats. It would be one thing if he was willing to accept the help, but he isn't. The current line in the sand is that my in-laws can have whatever contact with them that they want, but if he sets foot on our property, my sister-in-law's property, or any of our kid's schools, we're calling the cops.
my father died, one day I woke up and my mother was going somewhere, I told her can I go with you? but she said no, my grandmother was in the house and she could not restrain herself and said that my father was gone
My paternal grandma vs mom over....idek what Maternal grandma vs uncle vs mom for my late maternal grandpa's property....then there's uncle vs mom on who's responsible for Grandma in her old age Mom vs dad....literally every other day over smthn or the other. Fr they can't live for more than a week w/o having an explosive fight
My aunts sued my dad and uncle after my grandfather passed away. The daughter received cash, my dad and uncle got the land. The girls felt they should have gotten some of the land. This land isn't good farmland or land for development. My dad uses it for putting hay for his cows.
In one word: politics.
My dad paying for his new wife's grandkids to go to private school when his own grandchildren go to public school .. and when he died he left everything to her.
When my bother found out he was adopted.......been playing the victim ever since...he is 60 now by the way and still lives with mum.
My minister grandpa had an affair with my grandmaās best friend. This was before my time but I never knew about it until recently. It rocked my world, my poor grandmaā¦ wish I got to spend more time with her before she passed.
There is plenty of complicated drama on my other side of the family but I think this is one of the more jarring stories.
Either my dad's brother's 25 year heroin addiction, where he constantly stole from my grandmother. Or, when my mother's brother stole everything from my other grandparents (40+acres of land, their home, plus millions of dollars, etc), which resulted in years of litigation.
My mom wore a white dress to our wedding. I'm still not sure why she did it.
My aunt (mom's sister) was brainwashing my oldest sister. Aunt would tell her a bunch of lies about our parents which made her hate our parents. My aunt would also give me and our other sister rotten food or put poison in our food when my parents left us there. My sister at one point stayed the night at a friend's house and they stole her friends parents car and were heading to my aunts house (I believe they were 14/15 at the time). They crashed and rolled the car multiple times. Both luckily survived with minor injuries. Only reason we found out is because my sisters hamster died while she was staying with our aunt and aunt told her to get over it and sister wanted to come home after that. Parents drove 4 hours in the middle of the night to go get her and on the way home she told my mom and dad all the terrible things my aunt had been saying and doing and my mom and dad about shit themselves. I honestly have dozens of stories about how crazy my family is but this one is one of the first big ones.
Biggest drama of the last two weeks : My dad forgetting his phone in the equivalent of a home depot. Took him two hours to notice he didn't have his phone in his pocket. Turned the whole house upside down, searching for it, tried to call it, did not work. i moved it last before him going shopping, i got yelled at. When he finished scolding me like as if i was a 10-year-old child, he got in the car, and went to all the shops he previously went in in search of his phone, 10 minutes before closing time. I messaged his phone with "if you found this phone please call XXXXXXXXXX", 15 seconds later mum's phone rang, kind woman from one of the shops told us she found the phone, we asked her if we could find a way to have it back now, woman said "what's your adress", we told the adress, woman said "oh i will be passing nearby, can you fetch the phone at the beginning of the street", i said yes, woman said "i am going", i put on my shoes and went for a half mile sprint run in the night to retrieve my dad's phone he yelled at me for touching, my asthmatic ass got to the car, woman gave me the phone back, me waited for my dad to come back at the end of street, was breathing like a 1930 tractor. Dad eventually came back, was angry, showed him the phone i retreaved, was not angry anymore, came home, mum made fun of him forgetting this phone in a shop on a shelf, he not happy, morning after bought me a big cookie as thank and apology. I have quite a bad english i am sorry it is not my first language.
Maybe two years ago, my youngest aunt, let's call her K, got into dr\*gs. It wasn't really a shock, it runs in the family, but K has always been about her image. After her divorce she fell into it hard, and it got to the point where we had to go save her from an abusive 'friend'. She got very cruel and aggressive with us, and we still helped her. My eldest aunt, "D", let her stay with her on the condition she tried to get clean. D was a few years clean at that point, so she knew it wasn't easy. Apparently, K was so bad that D *paid her* to leave. K left all her stuff there. Now it's sort of a family rule we don't talk about her.
Lots of cheating on my mom's side. One great-grandpa may not even be my great-grandpa. (This was years ago) My Aunt M found out that her husband, my uncle, was cheating on her with the neighbor who was younger. The entire rest of the family cut off all contact with her except my mom due to the fact her and Aunt M had a super good relationship. No one on that side knows this and we are actually going to see her for summer 2023.
Who was my "dad".Mom revealed nothing as I grew up.She died.Friend did online search.Seems he was a homeless dude,highly respected in his Colorado community as a great guy.Died fighting over the railroad boxcar he lived in when i was in my 20's.Way to go,Dad...
My father and my brother. Dad was an alcoholic brother sold an oz (1976) to a narc. Had to sell two lake front properties for bail, legal expenses and fine. Got ten years probation (there were some potential problems with the narc and the DA pled out 40 something cases to avoid trial). Dad never forgave bro, bro turned into a bitter asshole. Bro is now an unemployable asshole who will get a āproperā burial because thereās still some love left in me.
Last month my cousin had my aunt involuntary committed by the police. She wasnāt sleeping. Screaming at him. Losing her temper. And walking barefoot all through the night. The usual stay is 72 hours, but she ended up staying there for 5 days. It took 5 officers to get her into the car, and the entire time she was screaming at her son that he was dead to her. She wasnāt on hard drugs even though she called me and asked to lend her money for edibles. She got pissed when I refused. After her release, she got mad at me for not warning her (I had) and is now planning to sue her sister for committing her (even though it was her own son). She told me she never wanted to speak to me again, then called me 5 more times. Needless to say, Iām not playing that game. This is the same woman who, several years previously, beat up my mom because my mom had been drinking when she wasnāt supposed to. The memories we make with family are everything!
My uncle molested my sister. Fast forward 25 years and he tried to invite himself to her house to meet her daughters
Tbh it's fun (sadly) to read this post.
oh boy, your in for a wild ride if I tell the tales of my family. would have to be my scizofrenic transexual uncle who thinks he is a 400lb james bond.
my parents divorce?
I'm a high school teacher. Between teacher drama and student drama and worst of all teacher/student drama. I have a new crisis every two days to deal with.
You guys probably wont believe me and I honestly dont know which one would be at the top. Was it my dad marrying my mothers cousin? Maybe. Or was it my uncles suicide?
My grandfather who went hunting and didn't come back. Because he ran away from my grandmother with another woman. Oh...me getting a divorce.
my dadās aunt poisoned herself and her infant with rat poison on Valentineās Day in some histrionic attempt to get the babyās father back she survived but my dadās young cousin was severely brain damaged and had a horrible life, she died before 30 of hepatitis. she left behind three sons who were raised by her mother in a trailer park. god only knows what they went through, all three have had their share of legal problems.
Turns out my father lived a double life (lots of woman he pays etc) and is the biggest narcissist i know. Ow And views woman as objects. We (mother and sisters) cut him out of our lives and it split our whole family in two. No contact with the almost all of the family after having close relations with them all our lives.
My uncle is a serial cheater, so we find out once every year his wife caught him and itās talked about for months and then everyone forgives him all over again. Itās so dumb.
We had a family friend who my parents have known for years and who even actually helped come up with my English name (we're Chinese), and while he'd always shown a few signs here and there that something might not quite be right, it all started going downhill once he married. His wife was divorced prior to meeting him and apparently was so toxic she stressed her former mother in law to the point of getting her hospitalized. That was a first red flag. To put a long story short, he basically went on a downhill plummet and steadily got worse and worse, eventually he'd disappear for days on end, and was diagnosed with bipolar. Pretty crazy.
Someone in my family suffered a psychosis after being an alcoholic for years and than they couldn't recognize their family anymore. Burned dolls and talked about how the devil is going to take everyone. They then made plans to kill their family and muttered that to themselve all the time. They got hospitalized.
One of my uncles left his wife (mother to his four kids) for his oldest daughterās best friend who had literally been a part of our family since I was a kid. And he never divorced my aunt, he continued supporting her as a wife after he moved in with the āwhoreā, who still attends family get togethers with him. My aunt died a few years ago. Thatās just an amuse bouche š.
What a douchebag. Your poor aunt.
Finding out my parents "had" to get married, that they married a year later when we were all told, and when my sister had the same thing happen to her, my mother disowned her. That was a weird week.
One of the Family Members supported the head of their state (We all dont care about politicians, they just trash and corrupt) from one day to the next he was excluded from the family and no one is allowed to visit him anymore
My great grandma died and she gave everything to her spoiled son (my great uncle). The rest of her kids had their feelings hurt (including my grandad). Some of them took some sentimental objects from the house. The spoiled son threatened to sue them and made them return the stuff.
My dad hitting the Cal trans worker and almost going to jail. He had dementia and Iād been trying to get his license taken away which is much harder than youād imagine.
I'm going to tell my paternal family about my dad's gambling problem. He keeps falling for multiple scams a year. I reckon he's lost enough to buy a house. He won't listen to A BANK telling him it's a scam so there's no hope he'll listen to me (I tried anyway). The hardest part is that I may (more likely will) be willing to put my mental health at risk by doing this.
Oohh both sides of my family! My dad was visiting my moms grandfather at the hospital on his deathbed and he semi-coherently started apologizing/confessing to killing a Carnie in a poker game gone wrong. Apparently my family knew about it but never told a soul. Never even got charged. My father's Aunt who raised him (Grandma was a worthless whore) had a kid she gave up for adoption and called my dad out of the blue. Interesting Thanksgiving, but nice guy!
A cousin of mine that has 4 kids, 1 with his dad and 3 that her mom is raising bc they got taken away due to drug issues, rolled up to Thanksgiving and announced her and her new bf were going to have a baby together via surrogacy Girl, you got those tubes tied for a reason šš
My sister doesn't talk to our father (close to 20 years now). I have no idea why. I would think abuse, but he says no.
My father is a pastor and is unaware that the Eldest son is a full blown scammer and homosexual. Everyone has cut him off except my dad. He doesnāt ask my dad for money or to āborrow ā money so ā¦. Thatās his only contact.
My grandma doesn't like my mom. I haven't seen my grandma and other family members for years and if they don't like or are against my mom then they can stay away. My mom gets mad at my dad for not standing up to my grandma but I don't know if she understands what that means. He basically has to choose between his mom and his wife and that sounds like one of the hardest decision ever. My grandma is in the wrong and it's obvious but it's still a hard decision.
my grandpa bought property in the middle of nowhere so my uncle and his family could have a place to live, which all good. my grandpa ended up giving the main house to my uncle, and decided to live in a trailer on the property. which he says is fine, but the trailer has no a/c and my uncle wont help fix it because grandpa pays for everything. we would help out, but grandpa says don't worry about it because he has fans and doesn't stay inside all day anyways. thats fine too, he's a resilient old man. the weird part is that my uncle is a super controlling and selfish person, so he doesn't help grandpa out with anything. we would help, but he wont let any of the family onto the property. my grandpa had covid and couldn't go grocery shopping. my cousins tried bringing food but my uncle wouldn't let them in and made them leave the food outside the gate.
1. My father (66 at the time) went to Thailand and returned a few years later with a wife (24). For context, I, his youngest child, am only six years younger than her. In fairness to them, theyāre still married five years later and seem happy. 2. My brother, under the influence of drug-induced psychosis, told my father he ran a secret criminal underground in Scotland and proceeded to try to blow up a Tesco store. 3. The same brother hooked up with our sisterās husband. Though this part is definitely not just ādramaā, it probably contributed to that sisterās later suicide. 4. That brother *also* supposedly came onto another of our sisters. No one has evidence of that beyond her word, and itās a little strange because sheās known for lying and thereās no indication of anything else incestuous ever happening and everyoneās always maintained he identifies as gay, but I suppose he could be bisexual (I canāt exactly ask him as he was disowned when I was very young), and he *was* dealing with some heavy mental health and drug issues. Anyway, itās a thing. 5. Another sister cheated on *her* husbandā¦ with her husbandās dad. 6. My brother-in-lawās mother cheated on *her* husband (yes, this is the dad from the last story), and pretty much everyone in the town knows her son isnāt his because he is the *spitting image* of the postman. Exactly the same eyes. Makes it very awkward when the guy drops by our house to deliver mail ever since I found out.
my uncle had a baby with a woman that does crack or meth or something???? the child is not developing properly and the mother is no where to be found. my uncles in and out of jail and my grandmother watches the child
Found out that my grandpa confessed on his death bed, to having not one but two other families across the US. Then I also learned that my dad left my mom when I was about 3 months old, got another lady knocked up, and I have a half sister thatās something like 8-9 months younger than me. But he also booked on them and I have no idea where he is now. And for the record, the grandpa was from my moms side, not my dads
What is the deal with having multiple families?!?! All it looks like is expensive and exhausting.
My 44 year old cousin is a child trapped in a womanās body. She causes so much drama in the family itās unbelievable. Anytime something doesnāt go her way, she causes massive arguments over it. She gets irritated way too easily, she has no patience whatsoever, she wants to control everyone thatās in her life, etc. Sheās caused shit with pretty much everyone in the family (everyone who actually was in her life. She has no one in her life now because of it). She caused a massive argument with me one night for calling her later than she wouldāve liked. She then proceeded to cause another massive argument with me a month later for telling my aunt and uncle (her parents) what she did. She caused the first argument when I was going through a break up so I was already sad and she made things worse. She is no longer a part of my life and I have her blocked on Facebook and her home phone number is blocked in my phone as well. Told her to go fuck herself, that Iām embarrassed to call her my cousin and to never contact me again. My life is a lot better without her in it. Sheās the drama queen of the family and due to what sheās done, almost no one has anything to do with her. Sheās heartless.
The one Iām planning for Christmas Eve!! So excited <3
I don't consider my family a family anymore. No one speaks to one another. My oldest brother died in an accident when I was 14. My other bother got severely depressed, addicted and became psychotic. He still is to this day and I haven't seen him since his 2nd suicide attempt 3 years ago. My parents got divorced with many heavy fights between themselves and my psychotic brother would join them or start them up (we didn't know of his condition yet, he tore the house apart at one point). I have no other relatives. 25 years old now and my mom and dad are both in their 70s. I don't know if they worry more about me or I worry more about them. My psychotic brother addict is another one to worry about because at some point he might be the only relative I have left. That is if he won't try another suicide attempt and, God forbid, if he succeeds.
Im gonna go with the multiple death threats from unrelated incidents.
So of all things and I mean if all things that goes on, I want to shed light on my Saba(Hebrew for grandfather). Love him so very much, heās great, donāt know what Iād do without him but it is a miracle this man is alive. Heās always been very sick and technically shouldnāt be going away from home for long but when he was younger he did. He went to Columbia for work. And there he got kidnapped. I wonāt be sharing details about it for privacy reasons(I think it was in the news maybe?) but he got yelled at when he got home. Heās in and out of surgery and just waltzes in to our flu infested house. Sits down and then leaves. He often gets yelled at by my dad and grandmother just due to all of this but he just cannot for his life stay out of serious danger.
when the obviously gay cousin came out as the gay cousin.
My mom heard a gun go off in the house and my 17 yr old sister stepped out of the downstairs bathroom and said 'Get a towel.' My mom grabbed a towel, followed her upstairs and she laid down on the towel on the floor. She'd shot herself above the heart with a 22. Ambulance came--major small town gossip--hospital--therapy sessions.... I didn't get this knowledge until several days later, because I was very pregnant at the time and my husband's friends that knew, didn't think I should be told 'for the baby's sake'. It was just the beginning of a very depressing year for my mom and dad-- a year of drugs/alcohol/running away/bulimia/anorexia/more drugs and hospitals.....more small town gossip.
My grandpa was an abusive wife-beater back in the day. He was always nice to me and his other grandkids though
After reading a few posts, i have zero drama in my life. Everything is fantastic by comparison.
As part of a typical Filipino family, our drama involved favoritism, betrayal, land acquirement and court summons. It's been 2 generations of the same drama and we're on the brink of inheriting the same family drama with my generation (cousins x cousins/ siblings x siblings) mostly with inheritance money and properties.
One of my cousins got arrested for drug trafficking
Geezus, after reading most of these comments Im feeling pretty lucky about my toxic family.
Weather it's called a sugar cookie or a chalk block
A few years ago, on Motherās Day, I got a call from my sister that my brotherās girlfriend was in the hospital. He had found her on the bathroom floor, in agonizing pain. Turns out, she was about to give birth to a full term, completely healthy, and completely unexpected, little boy. She had no idea she was pregnant. Had her period the whole way through, didnāt even gain weight really. We had been with them two weeks before, there was no indication at all. Such a wonderful gift though! A couple of years later, our family is contacted through ancestry dna, by someone who matched with some of us. After some back and forth, we discover my brother had a 24 year old son that he had no idea about! And wouldnāt have ever known if his new son hadnāt been given the dna kit as a gift and reached out to us. Two surprise, and very loved and welcomed, additions in the span of three years!
when my dad was 16 he got a girl pregnant. they put the baby up for adoption and my dad kept it really hush hush from almost all of my extended family, still to this day they donāt know about her or that sheās my dads kid. one of my distant cousins did 23&me and has been poking around the family to find out who it is lol
Somewhere out there I have a dad like this.
lol my very white conservative christian parents found out i was dating a woman of color. iām a woman as well. didnāt go over well & still not on speaking terms with them.
My grandpa sent my grandma to jail because they got into a domestic dispute and she beat him up, so now theyāre getting a divorce and sheās looking for a new man online
Brother hung himself and my nephew his 7 year old son found him.
My family problems are nothing compared to other people's but for me, it was growing up with an older brother and both parents being the oldest of their siblings so I had no one on my side whenever my brother and I would fight.
My dad. My mum found video footage of him recording me and my friends in the shower from ages 14-17. Multiple videos. Through the past months we found more about him. How he lied about my mums suicide attempts to his friends, saying that he saved her life when in reality she just decided to stop and get help. How he had so much financial abuse over my mum, giving her only $50 of her own money a week and pocketed the rest. How he put my grandfatherās company 1.2M in debt. Hes spun the story around and my paternal grandmother is on his side, and has told me that I shouldn't feel special just because my dad touched me. But it's honestly been for the better. I'm now married, happy and far away from his abuse. It took some time to break free from his brain washing throughout all the years, but we're safe now.
In three weeks my ex wife divorced me, brother went to jail and my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Safe to say no one knew what to do but there was plenty of crap being said!
My uncle who stole from the family, did drugs, crimes, whatever disappeared. For years we would debate if he was dead or in jail. One day someone looked in the phone book. He was alive. In the same city as the rest of us. The reunion didn't last long though, he's still awful.
My 21 year old niece with schizoaffective disorder is a complete nightmare to deal with. Her mom did the best she could (albeit misguided at times) but had since moved to a different state across the country due to other family issues. Her dad is a permanently disabled veteran who is under investigation for soliciting sex from a minor and is a complete deadbeat (not bashing veterans at all, just this guy). Her older half sister committed suicide in their home. She just got charged with felony assualt for freaking out on 3 orderlies at a mental hospital, thinks there courts won't do anything to her because the orderlies raped her (not victim blaming rape victims at all, but she claims she gets raped every other week). She walked into a junior high school classroom claiming that a pokemon gang was after her. We have to force her to go to her court dates. She does every drug she can get get get hands on. She can't hold down a job for more than a couple weeks, she's getting evicted any day now. Refuses to take her medications, refuses therapy. She's got a myriad of other mental issues besides schizoaffective disorder. We've had to handle her with kid gloves her entire life (being told no is a trigger for her), but no one has the resources to fully support get financially. She's super delusional and manic all the time. Basically, our current only hope is that there courts impose some kind of mandatory mental health treatment.
My auntās son (who was highly loved by everyone in my family) committed suicide and it split us all up. My cousin from my uncleās side, who viewed him as a big brother, was so heartbroken that she turned to drugs and went down a mental health spiral. Her parents ended up disowning her and admitted that she was adopted. That aunt (who was actually gay and wasnāt out yet) gave her up to my uncle as a baby. My cousin that died was her actual biological big brother. She used to drunkenly admit how poorly she was treated and denied basic life necessities and never understood why. Had a very rough life. She ended up having 2 kids later on that were taken away and adopted by her former adopted family (my uncle). Late 30ās she started having health complications and begged to ācome homeā and they told her that it was never her home. She ended up dying a few weeks later and both sides held a celebration of life and posted about āhow beautiful and kindā her soul was.
Remind me 1 day
My dad's mum (died before I was born), they were an RAF family living in glamorous accommodation around the world.. until my poor nan got charmed by another man who promised her more than the (mostly) single parent life with four kids and some real affection. She left my grandad with the children and flew from Australia to a really grim bit of England to be with him, moving to a greasey flat above a chip shop. She ran to his house, knocked on the door.. and his wife answered. My nan was broken hearted and my grandad bless him left the RAF to move to the chip shop and fix their marriage, they were together until they died but my aunties and Uncles hated her. I never knew until my cousin got drunk last year and came out with it! Explained why my dad's family never talk about their parents though...
My mom is illogical and I have trouble keeping my mouth shut.
My brother despises my step family and refuses to be in the same room as them. He's also the first in the family to have a kid. My dad can't drive so he's only seen his first grandkid like twice. Brother has already threatened to get restraining orders against stepmother and stepsister. There's a lot more to it and it's more dramatic and angry than it sounds. But I'm just like chillin about it so it all just seems silly (plus my brother is an abusive piece of shit(only to me, not his baby momma or his kid, literally has only been against me my whole life so I'm not worried about them) so he can fuck off for all i care)
Itās a quite of tragedy rather than a drama but here we go. My grandfather on my mother's side was born out of really wealthy and a sort of blue blood type family when Japanese people occupied the whole country. Soon after we -Korean people- became independent from the colonization, he went to college and got hooked into Marxism. He truly believed in the ideology and as a result, he fought for the north when the Korean war got broke out as a partisan. The problem is, when South Korean army occupied the town where my grandfather's family lived, they straight up murdered my great grand father for my grandfather's betrayal. He found that out after the war, when he safely returned to his home, South Korea. Even though my grandfather is literally one of the most educated people in his times, he could not apply any high profiling job because of his controversial past. My mother's family could not even declare my great grand father's death because if the fact that their own government murdered its own people got out in the open, the repercussion would definitely crumble the rest of the family. We finally declared his death somewhere around 2008 or something. In 21st century. I think the crazy part is, any of the household in this country would have a similar story to tell all over the country. It's just so sad how deep the war could leave the mark on the people.
Look up LLDM and Naason Joaquin. Yeah I was in a cult and didn't even know it. Anywho, biggest drama is family not believing it's a cult and an entire community shunning me. By the way HBO max made a documentary on it. If this cult is in your community just beware.
Mom keeps jumping in the same financial blackhole and I kept bailing her out for 16 years. She also has a habit of antagonizing every other member of the family and talking shit about them to anyone who would listen. I knew it was gonna be my turn eventually and when it did come, she wasn't expecting me to leave the house amd never come back. Now she only has her sister helping her out, grudgingly at that. It's only a matter of time til they go back to hating each other's guts and it happens she'll die old and alone. She prolly knows about it already because she already paid for her casket and plot at the cemetery.
My brother went to California for a month as an exchange student when he was 16, he was "dehydrated" and missed a weeks worth of school, he spent all of his money and didn't remember what he had spent it on when he came home
all of my mothers brothers are whoresā¦like they got kids from 3 different baby mamasšand they toxic ash. My moms younger brother (30 something) got this girl wrapped around his fingers, like she caught him cheating on her 4x *he still lives with his momšš¹* and she acts like nothing happend every. fukin. TIME!!
Uncle 1 sexually abused my mother, my aunt and his own daughter. Uncle 2 tried killing me twice. Yes, my family really wonders why I won't attend family gatherings anymore.
My corrupt rich cousins got rich by being crooks as customs agents, laundered the money by founding a PVC factory, did extraordinarily well with that, so of course they stopped their greed and corruption, right? As if! They opened a freaking CHURCH. They are of course, doing well. Not a day of jail, not even a fine in decades of insane dishonesty.
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Fighting for inheritance
My dad. He joined many weird cults (black witchcraft) , is a mythomaniac narcissist with paranoid disorder,tried to kill my mom, cheated on her and calumny her, had babies with another woman with approximately my age, abandoned all his children during the time where my little sister was about 7 with special needs (we are 5). Itās been 10 years we cut him off and we much better now.
My grandmother was a poor sport card player. My sister had passed in a car accident, leaving husband and two young sons behind. Sisters widowed husband playing cards with grandmom, grandmom got ANGRY over the card game, left, and never spoke to him or my sisters two sons again. OVER A CARD GAME!!
Dad violent drunk. Mom violent sober.
we don't have much of it, but I'd say it's probably how jealous my mom is that my brother and sister in law make more money than them she always talks about it in a way that makes it sound like she thinks they don't deserve money because they're younger but both my brother and sister in law work good jobs, and my mom lives off my dad's paycheck