Today, I spent the holiday with my husband's big family. They suggested we take a family picture, but two people were purposely left out of it. I was one of them. FML
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Today, my cousins cropped me out of a picture of all six of us at a wedding, then captioned it, "We have such a good-looking family!" FML
Today, I realized how little my husband, son and I mean to my in-laws. We were somehow left off the distribution list for my sister-in-law's birthday party. I even texted her to wish her well. It wouldn't be so bad if this wasn't the fifth consecutive family event we were left out of. FML
Today, my family returned from a holiday in Egypt. A holiday that I really wanted to spend with them. As if leaving me behind wasn't bad enough, they then made me watch a 200-picture slideshow of how much fun they had. FML
Today, I spent Thanksgiving alone. I'm not close to my family, I'm the black sheep but my sister said she would come over. To my surprise, she ended up going to my family's', where I'm not wanted. My boyfriend went to his family's, so I spent the whole day alone. He'd even took my dog. FML
Today, my mother not only told me that my ex-husband will be spending Thanksgiving with her and my dad, but that I'm also no longer invited to spend the holiday with my family. FML
Today, after I continued repairs on the home of a hoarder family member, guess which one of us wasn't invited to the family dinner… FML
Today, I went to work during Black Friday, after not being invited to my family's Thanksgiving dinner. FML
Today, my parents invited all their kids and grandkids to join them on a vacation trip to the mountains; all their kids except me, that is. I'm not invited. But they did invite my ex-husband. And his new girlfriend. FML
Today, my whole family made an hour-long drive to a restaurant that's just a few minutes away from my place. I wasn't invited. FML
Today, none of my family was at home. Turns out my one of my aunts was having a birthday party and all my relatives went, but nobody told me because they don’t like me coming around. FML
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coming back in the future 30
Wow that's so mean. Didn't your husband say anything?
Slicer43 15
Next year take control of the secret santa and leave everyone else out.
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NYGiants1925 22
Who was the other one?
messymessiah 11
Who was the other one left out? If they're a blood relative of them I bet they felt worse
sss12 14
OP here- I put who the second person was, but I guess they cut that part out. It was my husbands cousins on-again-off-again baby daddy/boyfriend who got her pregnant in a bar bathroom the very first time they met. I seriously wish I was joking.
TripleDallas123 15
I feel like it could've been a picture exclusively for your husbands Bloodline. Many people do that for pictures/Memories, but then they usually take one with everyone else. Was the other person another spouse?
sss12 14
OP here- I put who the second person was, but I guess they cut that part out. It was my husbands cousins on-again-off-again baby daddy/boyfriend who got her pregnant in a bar bathroom the very first time they met. I seriously wish I was joking.
Utetopia2014 18
Simple resolution. Don't do Christmas with extended family next year. Just spend it with your husband and immediate family (kids, or just together if you have none). When they ask "why?", just tell them this reason..
latchhooker 17
When one of my aunts had her 70th birthday the entire family came (some flying from all over the United States and most driving hours to get there because she lives really far out in the country). They had professional photographers there to get photos of the family together. It was supposed to be the entire family and everybody who was there (except the photographers) in the photos and group photos. The only photos that were taken was her immediate family (her and her husband, her children, and the grandchildren). No one else was included. We were told that we didn't need to bring cameras (though we all did) because of the photographers and that we would all get pictures with everybody so no one would be left out of pictures because they were behind the camera. We got a picture of her immediate family. So much for "everybody".
AmnesiaLB 8
This also happen to me at a reunion. I understand, it makes u feel like an outsider. Start spending Christmas with your family . if the can't appreciate your presence they can appreciate your husbands absence.
edmunson 22
Rude! I have heard of boyfriends/girlfriends being excluded from pictures, but never a spouse! That is just mean!!
lurker_no_more 13
all these stories kind of make me glad that we don't have the "family picture" tradition where I'm from, is it an American thing or does it happen in other countries as well?
MzZombicidal 36
I'd say it's an everywhere kind of the thing but I'm American so I may be surprised by the answer! lol
8djht8 19
At least one with and one without, rude assholes.
burnthistown 20
At least you weren't the only one