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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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
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)
GoArmy6624 7
OP might be a scumbag and the reason her ex-husband left in the first place.
GetBent730 5
U must be a terrible person
harrisoncohix 5
Something tells me OP's omitting a critical part of the story.
The_Joker_Haha 3
I feel like we aren't getting the whole story...
sarahbevan20 11
Maybe the parents wanted to make OP jealous so that she would show up, and they want to get her and her ex back together? Just a theory, im probably wrong xD if that is the case, its definitely not the best way to go about reconciling.... Lol
kbolt89 5
Some context there is definitely necessary, but probably not going to be provided.
zsshamalama 11
parents just don't do that. there has to be another part to this story that OP isn't telling us about.
Shade1982 21
Even still, there is absolutely nothing I can think off which warrants something like this...
Mc8005 9
My ex's parents love me. I still go and visit them on the holidays. They have actually disowned her when they found out that neither of her two kids belong to her current husband, and she has no idea who the dad of either of them are. Her parents are extremely religious and take stuff like that very seriously. In essence, my ex is a *****, I'm a nice guy, my ex's parents like me more than her.
alexandras114 9
Guys, we are only getting the side of the story from the op. Maybe the other side is that her ex is a very nice man who has kids with her and she is hurting her family so they have said she can't spend the holidays with them until she is non-abusive, but instead of telling the full truth and letting us decide they are just saying very loosely what happened so that it's just a pity-party.
amisenho 11
Either your ex got along way too well with your folks, or you weren't getting along well enough with your family. Not enough information here to determine a verdict.