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  1. Scienceisgood's Avatar
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    Family Members You Never Want To See...
    Hey Guys;

    Well, I was playing a game upstairs when I hear my mum shout up "Andrew, *insert names here* are here..." (Aunt and uncle) and I thought "Oh ****, why now?!"

    So, I asked mum where they came here and she said "Oh, I wish I knew why..." because, well, these are the sort of people who think they know everything. Well, first thing my uncle does when he comes in, lights up and the whole living room stinks...
    My Aunt tries to help with the car repairs...God help my other uncle (on my mother's side, not the aunt I hate's husband) and dad out there, my other uncle actually left I am assuming because she turned up and tried "helping"...

    It got so far when we got invited to a wedding in Cyprus (being my father's side of the family lives there and my other half being native English)... My aunt (herself being Cypriot and me having trouble understanding her) has this huge argument and calling them all the names under the sun gets banned from the wedding...

    End of rambling...

    So, does anyone else here have family members you NEVER want to see?
    Last edited by Scienceisgood; 22-07-2012 at 15:58.
  2. muffingg's Avatar
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    One of my cousins, I absolutely hate him. We have like a rivalry, but don't talk to each other. Even though he's like 10 years or so older than me, I still hate him more than anyone else I know. I just don't like him as a person. He doesn't know any limits of how far to go with jokes and stuff. The other day when my grandfather passed away his family came over and this guy started with his lame jokes and loud laughter again and didn't show any respect at all. Seriously this guy needs to die!
  3. BeccaAnne94's Avatar
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    It sounds horrible but I dread seeing my Grandad (on my dad's side), I don't have any fond memories of him, he always smells of BO, shouts all the time and basically insults me on every occasion.
    He moans about us not bothering to go to see him much in the last few months (my mums been ill and not very mobile) and assumes that because he's older we should be the ones flocking to see him and not the other way round due to our circumstances :mad:
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    I have an aunt who's not a blood relative who is the biggest.. Just moron you've ever met. She's a teacher but is always in teacher mode and treats everyone like a child and is oblivious to everything that goes on around her or how her actions affect others.
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    My uncle: he deals drugs, abusive and hasn't worked a day in his life, but then again I haven't seen him since I moved 5 years ago.

    My grandparents I can just about grin and bear it. They always criticise me, they compare me to their friends grandchildren, they constantly put me down, at my brother's graduation a few days ago they tried to make it about them, they constantly snap at us, they have told my brother and I we should be more like our uncle, they constantly moan and complain about everything and as I'm not doing the degree they want me to do they constantly tell me I'll fail in life

  6. A Cat's Avatar
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    My mother because she is a (a clinical) psychopath - No conscience, no empathy, no responsibility, no emotion, no honour, no soul, no humanity. Why waste my precious life on psychopaths?
  7. The Puppet Master's Avatar
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    Well one my nannas may as well be dead, because to me she is. She faked a breakdown when the council found out she was committing benefit fraud for over 5 years. (She had inherited over £200,000 from my grandad -of which my mum got nothing, why on earth she felt she had to, I don't know) If that wasn't enough she ran away for a week, my mum was a wreck and it was the middle of my IB exams, we thought she was dead. Found her, she pretended to lose her memory and when she was caught out she blamed my mum. When I was growing up, I was her favourite. She hit me when I was about 6 and told me not to tell my parents. She bought me everything PS3, xbox, laptop. However my brothers and sisters got nothing and weren't 'to use' my stuff. Now I love my brothers and sisters more than anything, so obviously I ignored her, just shows what an evil person she is. She now lives in the same town as us and knows that want nothing to do with her, if she hurts my mum once more then I could quite possibly be responsible for her death.

    There are plenty of my so called family that I wouldn't bat an eyelid if I was told they'd died but she's the main one.
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    (Original post by The Puppet Master)
    Well one my nannas may as well be dead, because to me she is. She faked a breakdown when the council found out she was committing benefit fraud for over 5 years. (She had inherited over £200,000 from my grandad -of which my mum got nothing, why on earth she felt she had to, I don't know) If that wasn't enough she ran away for a week, my mum was a wreck and it was the middle of my IB exams, we thought she was dead. Found her, she pretended to lose her memory and when she was caught out she blamed my mum. When I was growing up, I was her favourite. She hit me when I was about 6 and told me not to tell my parents. She bought me everything PS3, xbox, laptop. However my brothers and sisters got nothing and weren't 'to use' my stuff. Now I love my brothers and sisters more than anything, so obviously I ignored her, just shows what an evil person she is. She now lives in the same town as us and knows that want nothing to do with her, if she hurts my mum once more then I could quite possibly be responsible for her death.

    There are plenty of my so called family that I wouldn't bat an eyelid if I was told they'd died but she's the main one.
    Have you thought that your grandmother bought you all that stuff just to shut you up? Kinda odd of her to say that your siblings are not allowed to use them, if I understood correctly.


    I personally had an awful grandfather, but he's dead now so I don't even think about it. Thankfully grandparents from the other side are just angels.
  9. The Puppet Master's Avatar
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    (Original post by Anonymous)
    Have you thought that your grandmother bought you all that stuff just to shut you up? Kinda odd of her to say that your siblings are not allowed to use them, if I understood correctly.


    I personally had an awful grandfather, but he's dead now so I don't even think about it. Thankfully grandparents from the other side are just angels.
    Yeah probably. But I told my parents as soon as I was home so... :laugh: She wanted me to be my mum's only child as she was one and I don't think she got the concept of sharing. She also loved creating tension between us all.

    Ugh evil. Yeah mine are too
  10. Ra Ra Ra's Avatar
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    My father and his family. I'm forever thankful that - for the most part - my mother's family are kind, reliable people.
  11. Anonymous's Avatar
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    yes, i dislike one of my cousins and i feel awful for it... problem is i love the rest of them so seeing her is unavoidable.
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    My two cousins on my mum's side of the family. Selfish bitches the pair of them, I certainly hope I never see them again.
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    (Original post by The Puppet Master)
    Yeah probably. But I told my parents as soon as I was home so... :laugh: She wanted me to be my mum's only child as she was one and I don't think she got the concept of sharing. She also loved creating tension between us all.

    Ugh evil. Yeah mine are too
    I think she thought that she would have to spend an awful lot of money on her grandchildren... Sigh. I don't get why she didn't give up with her mindset after the second child was born - I mean, she could've given you lots, but do like my nice grandparents did: the gifts were for all four of us siblings.
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    I dread my Granny (from my father's side) and my aunt (from my father's side).

    My aunt think just because I moved away from home to a uni in Scotland I should visit my granny every single weekend (they live in the city my uni is in) and they called me every week. It's like they're trying to parent me. I hate that. I moved away from home for a reason. My granny is always shouting, angry (i.e. not one of them joyful grannies like on my mum's side) so there's no reason for me to look forward to seeing her. And to think my aunt tried to scheme this so she doesn't have to visit my granny as much...

    This has driven me to blank my aunt's and granny's phone calls. Let me live my life ffs.
  15. Bellissima's Avatar
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    (Original post by Samrout)
    My mother because she is a (a clinical) psychopath - No conscience, no empathy, no responsibility, no emotion, no honour, no soul, no humanity. Why waste my precious life on psychopaths?
    was that hard growing up with? sorry if that's invasive...
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    Not family anymore thankfully but my uncles ex-wife, she left her kids and hubby on Christmas eve to run off with a bus-driver she didn't have any contact with them for a few weeks until the bus-driver known as 'Black Mick' because he was scruffy had a heart attack and died.

    She moved back in with the uncle then started cheating on him and they got divorced but she left the kids in his care said she didn't want them blah blah despite he was a alcoholic anyway when my Gran died she came to the funeral (that she wasn't invited to) and told me she hated me so I told her I thought she was a **** mother and if I'd been her kids I would have been glad that she left.

    After that she really had nothing to do with her kids until about 5 years ago when her son was run over he ended up in intensive care for 7 days and she visited him once meanwhile his dad was at his bedside constantly. Her son died actually and since then she has spent most of her time getting into the papers and trying to find a lawyer who will help her sue the paramedics who took her son to hospital.

    A year ago she started having a go at my dad saying he'd been saying X, Y and Z about her and she started telling people that I'd gotten pregnant and was living rough because I'd turned into a drug addict and my parents kicked me out (not sure how she got that one.) She stopped though as soon as my mum got involved and told her to back off before she knocked her out (my mum is a karate instructor and this woman has always been terrified of my mum)

    But all has been quiet for a year or so so fingers crossed she'll just drink herself to death or just pee off and leave us all alone!!
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    My mum's dad. Cheated on my lovely Nan all through their marriage, then finally walked out on her when my mum was 3 and my aunty was 1. They rarely heard from him after that. Bellend.
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    (Original post by Bellissima)
    was that hard growing up with? sorry if that's invasive...
    Well... I'd like to think of myself as fairly normal as is relative to most people. Growing up wasn't terrible, I did have a loving father who did everything he could to make sure me and my siblings were (and are) happy.

    Psychopaths tend to make very big deals out of nothing, whether positively or negatively. It's often negatively. She would often ask one of us to do something and then completely disregard it after it was done. I remember one time when we were all sitting on the sofa, and she just said out of nowhere, "I don't love any of you". I was 10, my sister and brother 2 and 4 years younger. (I mean, what kind of human says that to her kids? Answer: A subhuman psychopath) We all burst into tears and cried for ages. Anyway it didn't kill us, in fact I'm quite thankful for the past because the present is great. I'm glad that I have the knowledge of psychopaths, as I believe they hold a key in finding the truth of life.

    My mother divorced my dad when I was 16-17, during my A-levels. During this time she made the home atmosphere absolute hell. Prior to the divorce she used to do all kinds of crazy ****, wreck the kitchen, shout at us, taunt us etc. I think her original plan was to be so intolerable that my Dad would divorce her, giving her more of a chance in court (which she got anyway). My Dad refused to divorce her even though we as kids suggested it, for the sake of "a child needs a mother". I can see his logic, and his views towards her have changed after the divorce, when I informed him that she is a soul-less piece of sh1t (in more eloquent terms).

    Pesky psychos.
  19. bellazz's Avatar
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    yeah i do have family members who are pretty much annoying but still i keep in touch with them a bit. we cannot completely get rid of blood relations and neither should we.
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    Re: Family Members You Never Want To See...
    At the moment, unfortunately I don't want to see my mum a while. Comes in the [front] door, minute or so later practically barges my door down throwing accusations at me when I didn't even do anything. To explain; doors need to be closed so a pet doesn't get hurt again, some doors were left open but it wasn't me, it was my brother. I can barely manage living in the same house as her for more than 2 weeks anyway. She wants to kick me out when I go back to uni, never wants me to come back.
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