Holiday Extended Family Annoyance Thread?

typeset · December 2013

I figure this could go on all week.

hfooter · December 2013

We just went to Tacoma to pick my sister up from my dad's and my grandma was there. I barely lasted 20mins without starting to insist on why we needed to leave. She wouldn't stop trying to shove her nasty food combinations in my face even after I told her we are not hungry and don't want anything. If it was normal food it may have been ok. But she is known to make meals out of old food and with weird combinations that don't go well together.

mfosburgh · December 2013

My MIL asks me 25 times a day if I have eaten enough... tells DH she doesn't think I'm giving the baby enough nutrients and that the baby will be born sickly. She called to wake me up at 8am on my vacation to tell me I'm not drinking enough milk and because of this I won't be able to breast feed... And just generally hovering and driving me mad. Deep breaths.... smile and nod... counting down the days until we leave.

sthomas1222 · December 2013

My dad annoys the piss out of me. I warned him when I was a teenager & he chose a wife that didn't want kids & he didn't fight to move somewhere in the middle (he's 2 hours away with her family) that he'd regret it when we had kids. Now he's bugging the crap out of me whining about when he'll get to see DD. I'm sorry you're finally paying the price for choosing your wife over your 10 year old child. I'm not going to rearrange our traditions b/c you want to see her. You can wait til the 26th or later like usual. And no I'm not coming down there where I've never been welcomed...

Dellaramsey · December 2013

We drove from TX to WV (still not to the IL's yet...45 min to go) and my mom is already whining that we won't be spending enough time with her. I can't help that I am miserable at your house and that you have remarried and I don't know any of your new friends. We're all more comfortable at my IL's. Get over it!

busterbeagle · December 2013

We are just saying eff it to the dramatic family. It should be kinda nice.

ama7165 · December 2013

I walked into my ILs and my MIL completely ignored me and would not even acknowledge my existence. Yep I stayed there for about ten minutes. She is mad at me because I told her to stop putting stuff about our life on Facebook and she is still not over it. We are planning a little gender reveal thing Christmas morning and I have visions of her sitting cross armed and not participating. Luckily my family is sane. Going to be an enjoyable few days.

ksyknelvr73 · December 2013

My grandmother asked me no less than 15 times today if I was REALLY happy (as opposed to fake happy?) that I was having another boy. She is 90 so I try to cut her some slack but I got annoyed having to answer her each time and her insisting that I must be sad it isn't a girl.

bumpuser9353653 · December 2013

Haha, yeah I think this thread could last a while! My FIL likes to stir drama in the family and twists things people say into making it all about him. He threatened to boycott Christmas b/c of an argument he had with my SIL. Ridiculous. We'll see how his mood is on Christmas when everyone gets together. He usually ends up falling asleep in front of the TV at some point when everyone else is enjoying each other's company. Tis the season to be jolly, right? lol

dragossoul84 · December 2013

My Mom is making me feel like garbage because we had to move to another state for my husband to get work. I have offer for her to come down to spend the holidays with us and she refused making excuses left and right. When I told her I didnt need her making me feel bad for something I had to do for my family she decided that shes not coming down for my birthday now either. I'm hurt angry and exhausted. I am happy down here the weather is better our house is lovely theres better public transit why does she need to make me unhappy?

ykristos · December 2013

It's day one staying at my mother's house, along with other family, and I basically hate everyone right now. I think that typically implies that the problem may be me. I refuse to believe that.

Update: I got a decent night's sleep last night, and miraculously I stopped hating everyone around me this morning. It was definitely me.

dwnslde · December 2013

We flew halfway across the country to visit my mom and my ILs, my dad lives another 2.5-3 hrs from them and my sister is near him. My sister is coming here to visit us. My dad asks every year if we are going to come visit him, he has only visited me once in my 6.5 years of marriage, didn't meet my son until my sister flew us out to where they are for his surprise 60th bday that I found out about the week prior and DS was 8 months old.

Get off your ass man and visit. He's a doctor and is always on call/working Christmas Day, but I am tired of catering to him. Oh and supposedly he's going to come visit in March, I doubt that is going to happen... If he brings up being sad that he doesn't get to see me I may go apeshit on him.

Ladiebug30 · December 2013

hfooter said:

We just went to Tacoma to pick my sister up from my dad's and my grandma was there. I barely lasted 20mins without starting to insist on why we needed to leave. She wouldn't stop trying to shove her nasty food combinations in my face even after I told her we are not hungry and don't want anything. If it was normal food it may have been ok. But she is known to make meals out of old food and with weird combinations that don't go well together.

I totally envisioned the green leaky jello mold from Christmas Vacation.

mrt · December 2013

We rotate who we visit with each year, so we won't see my dad's or husbands moms families this year. That eliminates most of the crazies. Somebody could surprise me though. Thank god we don't live too far away so we don't have to do extended stays.

kristine526 · December 2013

BIL and SIL (my siblings spouses) drive me up a wall.

BIL is the kind of guy who it's his way or the highway, and if you try to state otherwise, he'll argue with you until you walk away. The day we told them that we were pregnant, the first thing he did was go on and on about all of the things we won't be able to do once the baby gets here. No partying. No drinking. No going to the movies. No going out to dinner. No going to baseball games. No friends. No fun. No nothing, ever. Oh, and my DH will for sure FOR SURE have to get a second job. Really? I didn't realize you were on the up and up about my finances. No, DH does not need a second job. Thanks though. I guess maybe that's how he feels it is being a dad, but my life isn't going to end because I have a child. It's going to be just beginning. Being around him requires me to drink approximately an entire bottle of wine, and this year I can't. Good luck to me.

SIL means well, but she's a hypochondriac. Her neck hurts, her back hurts, her arm hurts because she has golfer's elbow. Her veins hurt. She's been to multiple specialists and no one knows what's "wrong" with her. Personally, I think no one has the heart to tell her it's all in her head. Everything that you could have possibly ever been through, she's been through something worse. Oh, and every time we sit down to dinner, she has to talk about people throwing up. Yummy. Help. Me.

pistolpackinmomma · December 2013

We are having our parents come to our house first thing in the morning (mine will stay all day but my ILs will probably leave) to watch DS open his gifts. So far FIL has complained that getting here at 8 is too late to me eating breakfast (sorry the rest of the world doesn't choose to get up at 3.30!) and I just found out last night that my mom has invited my grandma along. I mentioned seating for 6 and she corrected me that we would need more even though I was never informed of her coming. If I hadn't talked about food with her last night I would have been pulling something out of my ass come dinner time because I hadn't planned on my grandma when buying food. Maybe we should give the host enough notice to prepare the proper amount of food??

jfletcher3113 · December 2013

Oh man...

My sister in law kept asking me what it was like to be at a family party sober and she didn't know if she could do it blah, blah, blah. (She and her husband don't have children and don't want them). I felt like telling her "Um, unlike you I don't get trashed at every family party pregnant or not so I'm having fun". Instead I said something less bitchy. I think she was trying to make me feel like I was missing out because I'm pregnant and couldn't drink. Lame.

Oh and every time we took a family picture she kept trying to frame my bump in weird, awkward ways and saying "is it too much if I do this?" Like 10 times. She was trying to be funny but it was annoying mostly because she was drunk.

sisterjanet · December 2013

ykristos said:

It's day one staying at my mother's house, along with other family, and I basically hate everyone right now. I think that typically implies that the problem may be me. I refuse to believe that.

This sounds like the cat diary. https://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/humor/otherhumor/dog_cat_diary.htm Maybe you're just, metaphorically, a cat among dogs.

sthomas1222 · December 2013

My dad called today & wanted to wish DD a happy birthday. Idk but it irritates the piss out of me that he does this randomly when she's a month older. No one else texts or calls... Maybe b/c he calls me every f'ing day & this is just the current excuse to call. Oh & he was all " guess I should wish you merry Christmas now as I don't know when we'll get to see you". Throw yourself a pity party & forget my invite b/c i really don't give a shit.

Roufi · December 2013

@ marielynnk this drives me CRAZY! Les Quebecois pur laine piss me off so much, so I won't start, but I feel your pain!

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