Family gatherings on Holidays......

[prostock1]

I'm sure there's several others on this board that have family members, they really could do without seeing on the Holidays.

Let me start with my family :
Sister and her Husband are doing very well in the House business, they're kids are always at odds with each other about one getting more help from Mom and Dad, than the others do. This has now trickle down to the grand kids doing the same.....So we usually never see all the family together at the same time.

My nephew's wife is a total BITCH, CUNT....Her mouth is twice as big as her VERY FAT ASS. They have both done the drug thing, then born again church going christian thing.
I refuse to let my 13 year old go over to they're house, and she thinks my wife and I are the problem !!!

Now my wife's family :

She's the yongest of 5, and the only girl.
3 out 4 of the Brothers have done Jail, steal, drugs, etc....
When we have family gatherings it's always filled very foul language, and they all have small children. And a very good chance they haven't seen soap and water in days !!!!!
My wife also has a step sister that constantly sends her texts about how she will not be invited to her dad's funeral when he does die. This is the man she's not had an contact with since she was 2 years old....he abanded her !!!!!!!!



But I do love the Holidays !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jdgregory84]

I get along with all of my family. Everybody has their little quirks that I could do without, but I'm sure I have mine, too. I don't care as much for my mom's side of the family because their cooking sucks, and the gifts are always WTF gifts...just random shit that I don't need. I'm the whitest person in history and one year my moms parents got me a North Carolina blue Fubu coat. I gave it to this black dude at work to give to his kid.

[Wicked98Snake]

My parents moved to Texas when I was 5 and when I graduated high school they decided they wanted to go back to Michigan because that's where all the rest of my family lives. I decided not to go since I liked Dallas and they all live in BFE up there.
Stories like your's make me fell better about my decision.

[LS1Goat]

Well, tell us how you really feel.

I actually get along with my relatives (by marriage) for the most part.

[clevelandkid]

I like the holidays a lot more down here.

My moms side of the family is mostly still up in CLE, and they are all bat shit crazy. They can not have a get together without somebody yelling at somebody else, in some cases, resulting in fisticuffs or people being threatened with the carving knife.

Typically it's my mom and aunt going at it, but my cousin has turned into a complete waste of space (smokes bud every day, hasn't had a job in nearly 3 years, lives at home @ 31) and he now likes to give his worldly advice to the rest of the family, and tries to degrade anyone he can. His sister the doctor making deep six figures? She's a loser. Grandma likes to drink a cup of coffee? Shes an idiot. Oh, and because she takes prescriptions at 78 years old, she is a druggie too, except her drugs are worse than his. Anybody with a job? A sucker, a slave to the system. Lots of fun to listen to that for 3 hours. I thought about giving him a good beating several times, but then I didn't want to be the asshole punching people at the dinner table.

Oh, and the food sucks. Christmas dinner is a multiple course meal of which only one is edible. It starts with a clove of raw garlic for everyone. Mmmmm. Then it's some sort of sauerkraut and chic pea gruel. Then it's a nice bitter bowl of sauerkraut and mushroom soup. Finally after three rounds of passing a bowl past your plate and watching everybody else try to eat that crap, you get to eat. Pierogis. Then for dessert it's some wonderful wholesome prunes. Some people like cake, or cookies. They like prunes. After the prunes, everybody is expected to do a shot, I suppose as a digest-if. Except they pass around a bottle of 100 proof old grand-dad sour mash. That stuff was awful when I first tried it, and it hasn't gotten any better.

Then, there's my dads side, down here. They're all nice as could be. No problems, no stress, no yelling, no knives. Food is really good, and the men are expected to sit around and knock down beers until the women finish cooking. I can now actually enjoy the holidays!

[SSMAN]

Sometimes it's just a gene pool thing. I fired the inlaws and I get along good with my family and theirs. So all is good.

[Saleen781]

My family is cool at Christmas, just me my wife and kid, my parents and my aunt, and my brother and his 3 kids. Only my kid is under 12 so he gets a lot of attention from his cousins. My mom is a badass cook so the food is always top notch and there is usually no arguing at all.

[Cooter]

since we quit doing xmas at my grandparents, I don't really have any big reason to want to go to DFW... if I go to DFW, that means I have to see my wife's family.

I'd rather not see my family just to not see her family...

but, alas... this year, I have to go to DFW

[cobrajet69]

but, alas... this year, I have to go to DFW

Someone call the popo and give them the heads up! Sasquatch invasion.



David

[David]

We dont really do christmas. A family of 5 people makes it really useless to get together for some day off.

[jluv]

My mom's side of the fam is 100% do-gooders, and they are extremely and genuinely nice, wholesome, happy people. If anything, I feel like the black sheep around them, but not really in a bad way, and they don't judge me, so...

My dad's side is just laid back and chill. Very down-to-Earth and free to let a cuss word fly on occasion. It's all good there, too.

My old lady's folks are super cool, and are some of our best friends.

Every one of those groups can cook amazing food.

I love the holidays!!!

[cobrajet69]

My mom's side of the fam is 100% do-gooders, and they are extremely and genuinely nice, wholesome, happy people. If anything, I feel like the black sheep around them, but not really in a bad way, and they don't judge me, so...

My dad's side is just laid back and chill. Very down-to-Earth and free to let a cuss word fly on occasion. It's all good there, too.

My old lady's folks are super cool, and are some of our best friends.

Every one of those groups can cook amazing food.

I love the holidays!!!

Sounds like my gig.

I've know Mary and her mom since I was 9 and love her like my second mother. Our two families are extremely close and meld well.

I come from a large family (siblings) and you won't find a closer group, so holidays are always a blast. Thanksgiving being my favorite of all.


David

[UserX]

You choose your friends, not your family. Sucks sometimes.

[SlowLX]

My half-sister recently committed a felony from within prison and erased her chances of parole and my half-brother disowned the entire family for the 3rd time in 4 years. Mom's working on xmas and my dad and I are going to drink beer and watch basketball. All in all this might be one of the most relaxing holidays I've ever had.

[GrayStangGT]

Most of my family is cool with a few exceptions.

The best is my cousin. Either 18 or 19, just had a baby after getting knocked up by her 29 year old felon boyfriend. He is heading back to prison for the 3rd time on the 30th for stealing some stuff and then pawning it, so they got married so she gets better visitation at the prison. He also has 2 other kids with 2 other women that he doesn't support. To top it all off she was a straight A student before meeting him and then ended up having to take summer school just to graduate HS.