What do you think this means? The bloodline

[Anonymous]

My FIL has emphasized his strong family bloodline several times in the past few years. Once he said that DH's and my son is a shining look at the future of the "Jones" bloodline. Another time, he told me that he wanted to reunite with an estranged nephew in order to give the nephew a chance to be part of "a family with a strong bloodline."

FIL's family has so much drama and craziness ranging from the humorously banal to the sordid to the illegal, including alcoholism and abuse. FIL grew up in a working class family who were often dirt poor. My husband doesn't know what the heck he means by this bloodline talk. I'm just curious what DCUM makes of this. Is the bloodline important to you or your family?

[Anonymous]

Bloodline means nothing to me. We adopted. Your FIL sounds like an ass.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't Trump talk about bloodlines?

[Anonymous]

Op here. He does like Donald Trump. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Insecurity

[Anonymous]

He sounds unbalanced- with that family history that is no bloodline.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like ‘bloodline’ is all he’s got. He’s grasping. It’s tragi-comic

[Anonymous]

Agree that he’s trying to create something out of thin air that would make his family important and significant, and a way to unify everyone under some Bigger Ideal. Or he’s some bizarre quasi-eugenicist without realizing his family would not qualify (based on your description). Guess he doesn’t grasp that, for example, your son is half YOUR family’s “bloodline.”

[Anonymous]

My mother once made a stupid comment about continuing our bloodline like we are some kind of nobility and not poor working class. I never told her.that we needed donor eggs to get pregnant the second time because of that.

[Anonymous]

The whole concept of bloodline is racist 19th c. pseudoscience sold to middle and upper class US whites to make them not just anti-black and anti-Native American, but anti-immigrant. In all likelihood, wiping out your FIL’s bloodline would have been a 1930s eugenicist’s wet dream.

This is what happens when a poor education in US history meets Trumpism. I’d keep my son away from Grandpa’s ideas about bloodline if I were you.

[Anonymous]

I would completely start using “bloodline” whenever I wanted to talk about family issues.

“Are you sure you need a third beer, what with all the alcoholism in your bloodline?”

“Is a brand new car the wisest idea when there’s so much bankruptcy in your bloodline?”

“With this bloodline, the risk of child abuse is so high that I totally support cousin Sharon’s decision to be one and done.”

“When we considered this bloodline, we knew Timmy would benefit from beginning therapy as early as possible.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would completely start using “bloodline” whenever I wanted to talk about family issues.

“Are you sure you need a third beer, what with all the alcoholism in your bloodline?”

“Is a brand new car the wisest idea when there’s so much bankruptcy in your bloodline?”

“With this bloodline, the risk of child abuse is so high that I totally support cousin Sharon’s decision to be one and done.”

“When we considered this bloodline, we knew Timmy would benefit from beginning therapy as early as possible.”

Lol. Op here. This is hilarious! We have a million examples I could bring up in regards to the "Jones" bloodline.

His behavior and world view in general does indicate that he's a person with deep insecurities. It's not my place to question him (btdt) but I'd love to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My FIL has emphasized his strong family bloodline several times in the past few years. Once he said that DH's and my son is a shining look at the future of the "Jones" bloodline. Another time, he told me that he wanted to reunite with an estranged nephew in order to give the nephew a chance to be part of "a family with a strong bloodline."

FIL's family has so much drama and craziness ranging from the humorously banal to the sordid to the illegal, including alcoholism and abuse. FIL grew up in a working class family who were often dirt poor. My husband doesn't know what the heck he means by this bloodline talk. I'm just curious what DCUM makes of this. Is the bloodline important to you or your family?

One of my grandmothers once told me that if I ever adopt a child that she had made sure, and put in her will, that an adopted child would never ever get anything that was hers. She said that because that child, or children, would not be blood. My grandmother was a mean woman who nobody really liked. I stopped speaking to her after that comment.

OP, to some people blood is thicker than water, and it doesn’t matter the type of person it is. As long as they are blood they are more important than everybody else.

[Anonymous]

It means FIL is a Trump voter. Do Thanksgiving somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

OP, it's just part of your FIL's particular kind of crazy. Don't let it in. Thinking about it for one nanosecond, you are giving it too much of your attention.