Nothing like a guilt trip from Jezebel to make you really appreciate your shitty fam!

Well said!

Best scam ever, my kids were in bed by 9:30 and I had the evening with my hub!

This also works for parenting.

I googled “trump ass tattoos” and it legit made me feel better.

My parents moved to another province for my senior year of high school - I stayed behind in my small town to finish and travelled there for the holidays. I didn’t know anyone, at all, so my little sister invited me to go to a high school party with her.

I’m continuing to give up gluten, dairy and refined sugar in an attempt to manage my poly cystic ovarian syndrome after the holiday season where I basically gave up dietary restrictions. Also giving up my unpaid family leave to return to work months earlier than expected cause I’m bored and I think I’m driving my…

Legit went looking for it yesterday and couldn’t find it. Maybe my hub already did the hammer solution, he has a lot of hate for the parentals.

An excellent tool to identify lack of empathy/compassion and self absorption. Hopefully you won’t have to use it often...

Hope it’s all okay!

Right? I refuse to travel over Christmas now.

It took me a long time to not feel ashamed of being no contact with my parents. There’s just so much importance that people place on that! I think part of it is that others struggle to believe that you can survive terrible things and still come out the other side to be a happy, healthy and successful adult. “If it was…

Maybe I will free cycle it! I feel badly tossing something someone else might appreciate. I’ve given most of the stuff away that they gave me, made me feel better to do so without the history attached.

You can forgive but it doesn’t mean you forget. I always compare it to a dog when people are dismissive - would you hug a dog that has bitten your face before? I doubt it. You may forgive it but forget? Never. I think people get uncomfortable when others talk about shitty families. It makes them confront the fact that…

Sounds very similar to me - my mom used to love to yardsale and once we all get into young adults, she would call each to offer up what she had found that day. She’d always start with my older siblings “because they were particular” and come to me last (after everyone had said no),If I turned it down, like my…

Ha!! Well said 

It was all my idea! I’m amazing. So I guess I’m relearning to ski this year (I was hoping to have three glorious days off to sit on my butt and do sweet fuck all).

Uh huh. His ski lessons coordinate with my sons - I also convinced two (not one! Two!) other families that do not know each other to sign their kids up at the same time. He was in charge of the carpool.

Ahhh, so right!

I’ve been reading through the other comments and wow! I find family feels more entitled with family - they don’t ask, they expect. So have your hub state clearly what the ground rules are. You don’t babysit your sister-in-law anymore, you have other responsibilities. I’d do role playing with him and talk through each…