Today, I visited my family. Over the course of 2 hours, my brother punched me, and my mom slapped me across the face after drinking way too much wine. When I started gathering my things to leave, my mom started crying about how I don't visit enough. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my mom got blackout drunk and tried to fight me, my stepdad, and my brother, resulting in my stepdad leaving, my brother getting two holes from a metal shelf my mom tried to joust him with, and I got bit. FML
Today, I was at the mall with my little brother. I saw him touching some expensive objects, so I slapped his arm. I noticed he wasn't my brother when he started crying and his real mom slapped me in the face. FML
Today, my mother and I got into an argument, and she told me to go to my room. I refused, prompting her to slap the shit out of me. I'm 29, and she was visiting me at my own house. FML
Today, my mom got drunk and punched me in the nose, then yelled at me for bleeding on the carpet. FML
Today, after spending over $1000 on plane tickets, I'm visiting my family for the first time in five years. Two hours after I arrived, everyone is screaming at each other and taking their rage out on me. They still ask why I never visit. FML
Today, my brother and I ruined our mother's birthday by fighting. She's 76, we're 55 and 54 and yet still unable to comport ourselves like adults. She yelled at us and then "showed me" by eating the dish he made but not mine. I reverted to teenage coping tactics, dissociating like a boss, and hiding in my room. Worst family visit ever. FML
Today, I visited my in-laws, whom I thought I was on great terms with. I soon learned that wasn't the case when my mother-in-law yelled at me about how I've been abusing her for years. Ten minutes later, she hugged me and asked me for grandkids. FML
Today, I went back home. My drunk mother was screaming at my drunk step-dad about a fight that happened four years ago. My little sister was looking in the mirror practicing her "orgasm face", while the neighbors were dancing outside, coked out and naked. FML
Today, I went over to confront my parents about how my siblings always get to visit and all I do when I’m over is work on their house or take care of grandma. My mom was very upset. Then she snuck out with my sister, leaving me to take care of grandma until she got back. FML
Today, what should have been a nice family dinner ended with my wife standing over me, staring me dead in the eyes, while endlessly repeating, “Get him out of my house, get him out of my house…” until I agreed to take my drunk brother to a hotel to sleep it off. FML
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meow_jess 11
I would have left after the first punch, nobody deserve to be treated like that and alcohol is not an excuse.
Pleonasm 36
Sounds like a typical family gathering then. I mean, at least for me. Gotta stop the mario party+Monopoly marathons.
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Comments (85)
Michael_92 20
I wouldn't go ever there to get treated like that. I know they are family but they need to show respect non the less. You could also just tell them off...some people don't know until you tell them.
ashleymendoza24 4
Sorry OP,but your mother is rude.I would have told her it was partly her fault.(assuming she acts like this when you visit.)
dan_in_wi 12
****** emotional drunks... can't leave with em', and apparently can't visit either...
GhostChickens 17
Even if you drank twenty bottles and got completely shit-faced, slapping you isn't going to help. What was she trying to do, slap the alcohol out of you? Your brother is just a twat. Sucker punch him.
Lichinamo 33
I think you misread the FML. The mother had too much wine, not the OP. OP, you really shouldn't have to put up with that. FYL
GhostChickens 17
Oops! Sorry, I'm an idiot. *Crawls back under rock* Still not a big fan of the mother though, even after re-reading. What a bitch.
trollburger_fml 4
Just admit to them that you feel uncomfortable visiting the psychiatric clinic too often, since your whole family is being treated in one.
onorexveritas 24
perhaps if you stopped drinking, mom, then I would visit more
ebolson 6
Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DanielleinDC 34
"Perhaps if I didn't get the snot beaten out of me every time I visit, mom, I would visit more. Are you upset that your punching bag is going away?" Really, OP, they're lucky you visit at all if this is how they treat you. Next visit, leave the first time someone raises a hand to you or your mom starts in on the wine. And if it's the former, call the cops on whoever hits you.
countryrose92 23
Sounds like my family. But instead of violence I just get called a **** and an idiot and how much everyone hates me, then when I try to leave they beg me to stay since I live 8 hours away and can't visit often:P it's pretty awesome. Not really
Ameel_fml 19
Lol. My grandma's like that. When I visit her, she'll mock me for going to university instead of getting a job, mock me for not having as much money as my siblings, make up lies about what my mother has said about me, insult my appearance, and so on. She also interrupts me every time I try to speak to her, and rants about how it's unfair that she's in a wheelchair and how everyone else should suffer with her. Then when it's time to leave, she'll start crying because I don't visit more often.
Axel5238 29
My mom hasn't been abusive physically but a never of times she gets pretty drunk. 2 months ago she nearly crashed her car and didn't think anything of it. Originally, she seemed sober. She also claims she doesn't have a drinking problem. She's also crashed into a guard rail and laughed. Yet every time I've visited her she always has had wine or is having it.
vbmg152 19
Well, why don't you visit more often? Unfortunately, we can't choose family!
beclaurela 18
Much like my family. I feel for you, OP.