Had the extended family vacation yet this summer? Tell us the worst!
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Anonymous
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It's important to the kids, it's important the grandparents, you can't believe this year will suck as hard as previous years did . . . .
For whatever reason, lots of us do it, and we don't need to hear how we should just stop or how we shouldn't feel the way we do. Keep it to yourself. Or start your own "can you believe what whiners these DCUMers are?" thread. This thread is for misery that loves company. I am staring down the barrel of a visit with my judgmental, passive-aggressive family, and I want to hear what crappy things your family did and said on the visit you didn't want to make anyway. |
Anonymous
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Well, you are certainly going into this vacation with the right attitude, lol.
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Anonymous
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Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.
They are exhausting to be around. DH's family members don't get along yet they have made plans to be together from morning to night every day. Why?! I plan to bring a book and need to go lie down because I'm "just so tired/have a headache." |
Anonymous
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We're coming up the first vacation with my family in years. It will either be an absolute blast and we'll have an amazing time OR it will be a nightmare and we'll leave early to escape the drama. My sister is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and there is no telling who we'll get.
On previous vacations: she locked me out; told me at 1 AM I needed to go sleep in a tent in the yard of the beach house as one of her kids needed the bed (they'd peed their bed); thrown out all of the food I brought and told me to go buy more; told me when I arrived (after a 8 hour drive) she changed her mind and I wasn't invited even though I'd already paid my share of the rental. On the other hand, on good vacations, she's organized amazing outings, we've stayed up all night having amazing conversations, now that I have kids she's AMAZING with them, and she's given me the best guidance and advice I've ever gotten. I love her, she's a beautiful mess of a woman and I'm keeping my fingers crossed. |
Anonymous
| My FIL yelled at my MIL after breakfast yesterday. |
Anonymous
| I wrote about walking out of my parents' beach house a few months ago. I'm hopeful someone will post something worse. |
Anonymous
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My MIL is angry at me because I politely declined to spend the week before school starts on a vacation with MIL, FIL, SIL, SIL's two DC, DH and our 3 DCs in a tiny 2BR condo.
Disaster avoided! |
Anonymous
Have you had any waffles since then?  How about an update?
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Anonymous
LOL. I have not. (For the fat-shamers, it's not because she shamed me into avoiding them so good for her. It's because I don't normally eat them.) |
Anonymous
Well, if that were my parents, that would be yelling incident one of twenty on a daily basis. Count yourself lucky (also that you didn't have to grow up listening to it). |
Anonymous
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- I was taking a shower and my MIL wandered into the bedroom, poked around my dresser and then tried on almost all of my jewelry and then proceeded to WEAR IT ALL DAY. This includes my engagement ring.
- On the night I was in charge of dinner, I made a meal I had been confident was a favorite of MIL's (she's made it herself several times when we'd been over, raved about it, and both DH and FIL have said separately how much she likes it). She sat down and looked at the meal before saying "Oh, I don't eat that. I only eat ... organic meat." I replied, "It is organic." She then said, "Oh. I ... don't eat meat." So I said "Oh, you've stopped eating meat? Okay, well there's plenty to eat with all the sides." She shook her head, "Oh no, that would make me too full." Too full for WHAT? Dinner? I gave up at that point. -FIL farts and acts like it didn't happen because he thinks nobody can hear it. - FIL pulled DH aside and quietly suggested it was inappropriate of me to wear a bikini when we went to the beach. Luckily I trained DH to be a feminist so he was able to properly defend me, but it wasn't enough to stop FIL from looking at me over his glasses, pursing his lips, sighing and shaking his head each time he saw me in a bikini. Had to resist the urge to say "Why don't you just come right out and call me a harlot?" |
Anonymous
Wtf? You take advice from this evil person ? |
Anonymous
| My MIL turns off the hot water heater when my family and I are there. My BIL even called her out on it and she ignored his comment. |
Anonymous
| We were out of town for a family wedding and DH was so excited to be with his siblings that he basically left me alone to deal with our two very young kids and some people thought I was the nanny rather than his wife. Then my in laws kept going on and on about how tired DH must have been " because of the children". I seriously would have drunk an entire bottle of wine if given the chance. |
Anonymous
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I am the only one in my family who is not married.
They systematically isolate and exclude me. Today my sister admitted to me in an angry way, "yes I exclude you. Because you are a bitch and I don't like to be around you." My boyfriend just broke up with me. I don't have a place to live. I have no one. I feel so alone. There is a high rise hotel half a mile away. I keep thinking of checking in, asking for a room on the top floor, and jumping off. |