I was like this. I did not hold my son for the first 3 days outside of in bed to feed him. I had convinced myself I would drop him or hurt his neck and so I always found a reason my mom, my husband, sister, MIL, nurse etc. should put him in and out of my arms. When I later confessed this to my husband he thought for a…

No they do not. I first heard about this story from a Slate article and they covered that:

NO! Crazy Aunt is hot. Granted, some of it is work (the boobs and a facelift) but she and my mom are both legit gorgeous; fabulous genes but I think the crazy might be the flip side of that coin (my sisters also gorgeous but rather high strung). And frankly, if we’re casting here I’d rather my groom not be my actual…

Drones?

Yes, I think it’s totally a personality disorder. Histrionic maybe, narcissistic? Not gonna lie, that whole group of siblings has some issues but hers are above and beyond. I think it’s a combination of genetics and the environment they were raised in.

Was she though?

No. But I’ve been sort of terrified someone will recognize the person I’m talking about but then I realized, bah she’s nuts and no one who knows her will go stirring that crazy pot. But no, not Philly.

She’s both. I wrote more about her down thread. I’ll tease with this: my moms always had Raven black hair, aunt had brown. So she dyes it black like 15 years ago and my other aunt by marriage tells her she likes the color. My Aunt looks her straight in the eye and says: “What do you mean, this is my natural color:…

Wearing your wedding dress to another person’s wedding is a special kind of crazy. Was it clearly a wedding dress?!

Read on and let me know. Writing all this has made me paranoid but I was like nah, I doubt my one girl cousin reads Jezebel and only maybe my cool Aunt. You my cool Aunt?

Pretty much, aside from some odd dealings over the years. But my grandmother’s ailing so it’s only a matter of time until we deal with her again and in some stressful circumstances. When my grandfather passed she took her own attorney to the will reading, recorded EVERY conversation she had with her siblings, and…

No. He knew who she was, I mean he knew it was his cousin. His defense was a) he was wasted b) she started it and c) he should get credit for not doing more than making out. Oh and d) he’s adopted so it shouldn’t be as icky. It was super sketchy.

Keep reading. I posted more below.

No one thought she’d come, she hates my mother (no one knows why, my guess is jealousy) but my Grandmother didn’t want to give her a reason to claim she was left out.

I’m rather proud of this. So she had been telling everyone about this idea and made a big production of approaching me during a family gathering and getting me to agree we needed to honor my GF (more than we already were with a picture, flowers, and a toast) and suggests the plant a tree during the ceremony idea. So I…

Oh shit. You need to get a handle on that kind of behavior post-haste because that’s only going to get worse as time goes on. Could your husband-to-be not intervene and run some interference for you?

I joke about writing a book about my Aunt one day. She’s something else. I replied to someone else with a bit more about her and her web of weird lies and machinations. Even her own mother can’t tell you details about some pretty basic facts of her life which weirds me out to no end.

People are really responding to my crazy Aunt which I totally get because for awhile I was obsessed with her. How come no one knew basic details of her life? Like, how is she so crazy and why aren’t the rest of my family obsessed with figuring out all her lies. Even more, why?!? How did she come to be this way? She’s…

No she’s not originally BUT, rather tellingly, she moved down there for a large chunk of her life. So she’s Florida by choice/affinity.

It’s been 8 years. And even then, I was just more fascinated by the sheer train-wreck crazy of this woman. Part of me almost admires it the way you do a good thunderstorm, she’s a phenomenon of nature.