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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mother called to uninvite me from Christmas, my ex-wife is going and she doesn't want it to be awkward for her. FML
Today, my mum told me she would rather spend Christmas with her boyfriend than with her own family. 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, I found out my family's Thanksgiving was canceled. Why? Because my mom doesn't want to cheat on her diet, so we aren't having it at all. FML
Today, my mom is coming to pick up the Christmas presents we got for her and her husband. She won’t come inside or come within 6 feet, so she can be healthy when she goes down to the ex-wife’s parents house to hang out. The ex in-laws that hate me. Glad my mom chose them over me. FML
Today, my dad told my mom to only drop off my sister for Thanksgiving and not me. Guess I was wrong about him wanting to work on our relationship. FML
Today, I found out my ex got invited to our Christmas Party. I also found out that she got much more presents and money from my family than I did. FML
Today, I found out that I'm not welcome at my boyfriend's dad funeral, because his ex-wife has invited herself, and it would be too awkward to explain to his extended family, most of whom apparently don't yet know that he's divorced. 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, I had to break up a fistfight between my wife and mother. Apparently, my mom heard that I finally got the great paying job of my dreams, and told my wife I'd finally kick her "useless ass to the curb." We have to spend the holidays together. FML
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aforbiddendance 23
That sucks, OP. Why won't you take revenge and go on a family holiday with your ex mother-in-law?
Redgrass7 7
31 I see these FMLs ALL the time. My guess is she cheated on him and left him with the kids, or cleared out his bank account, etc.... Something along those lines. Family isn't going to disown you and pick up the ex because you forgot to bring a dish to a party or something.
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Comments (89)
Teyros 24
Just because you're family doesn't mean you have to be with them. Especially if they treat you this way. I haven't talked to my dad in four years.. My grandparents on his side said they didn't love me lol.. Their loss.
raba13 12
If your family has taken your ex husband's side, then you must have done something, OP... sorry, but I think YDI
Tinad01 12
You must have don't something terrible.
Oley 27
Sorry this happen to you. You'll be the one they run to when they "need/want" anything, not your ex!
martin8337 36
OP, what did you do to piss off your peeps?
Thi3fstheme 9
You know you deserve it cause there's more to the story on why they accept him and not you
Omniprism 15
Go spend it with some friends and be sure to take lots of happy photos to post on Facebook and don't call them let them call you.
jusanotherface 3
Yeah i highly doubt that...
turncloak 3
we have a similar situation in my family: my mom's first marriage was to her childhood sweetheart, they grew up together, the families were really close, and after they divorced (it was a really bad divorce, he hit her, they'd both had affairs, ect) my mom's family took pity on him, and my mom wasn't invited to family gatherings afterwards. Maybe it was something like that?
Cazz91 21
That is the most hurtful and disrespectful thing that your family could ever do to you. Personally, I wouldn't understand their reasoning to invite an ex of mine to Thanksgiving but the moment they uninvite me for my ex's sake or whatever excuse they try to come up with instead of their own flesh and blood is where I draw the line and cut ties with my "family". That may sound harsh and possibly may cause this comment to get down voted but honestly that is some serious BS and pretty much tells me that my family would rather have my ex apart of their lives instead of having me be apart of theirs. I can understand inviting the ex husband over for the kids if you have any especially but that still does not mean you should not be invited either unless it's a pretty damn good reason to not invite you (like you being abusive to your family for example). I'm sorry your family is a bunch of jerks OP. :(
iSleep 5
Ummm you said it yourself that op might have done some bad shit - and no, just because theyre family doesnt mean they have to feel like shit because of her - so why call them jerks? Everyone has their limits, doesnt matter if its family or not