Today, I graduated from Basic Training. I was really looking forward to seeing my family after being away for almost three months. They decided not to come to graduation because they didn't want to spend the money to travel here. They live 30 minutes away. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out nobody in my family wants to come to my college graduation. I spent four years and $60,000 to be the first person in my family to go to college, and nobody wants to see me graduate because the four hour ceremony is "too long." FML
Today, I attended my graduation ceremony. My parents acted mysteriously and kept urging me to go home, since we had to be "on time" for something. Thinking they might have planned a surprise party, I left my friends behind. I missed my graduation because my mom wanted to watch a TV show. FML
Today, it was my college graduation ceremony. My parents didn’t come because they “forgot”, although I told them and had been reminding them for months. Last year was my little sister’s high school graduation. My parents wasted no time going to her ceremony and then took her out to dinner. FML
Today, I'm in my fourth month of training in the US Navy. I'm 3000 miles from home. I joined to give my wife a better life. Since I've been gone, she decided that she liked being single. FML
Today, nobody wanted to come to my graduation after finding out that my father was coming too. FML
Today, my mom told me that on my graduation day, the reason she (and my dad) almost didn't show up was because they had to spend almost an hour convincing my grandma to attend. FML
Today, my grandparents told me they couldn't make it to my college graduation, even with months in advance to plan, because they had their annual Mother's Day plans with friends. Plans they've had every year, and are further away. This was the only time I'll ever have a graduation ceremony. My grandpa is my last biological grandparent. FML
Today, it was my high school graduation. Everything was going fine until everyone saw my family fighting over where we would go afterwards. Security had to pull them apart. FML
Today, after two weeks of trying to convince my parents to go to my high school graduation. They finally gave in. After they handed me my diploma, they decided to leave because it was "too boring." I'm currently sitting on the curb of the street waiting for my Uber, while people take pictures of me. FML
Today, I got offered a ride to go home for the weekend. I go to college six hours away from home and haven't seen my family for almost two months. When I called my mom with the good news, she told me not to come. FML
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Top comments
conman531 23
Congratulations and thank you for the service. They are missing out on seeing a real hero
strawberrywine22 30
Well, that's their loss. They'll regret it eventually, not that it helps now. You're doing a great thing and you deserve their respect.
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Comments (107)
cherylrenee 14
Daww I'm sorry to hear that ): when I went to my husband's BCT graduation there were a few soldiers without families there too. I couldn't imagine not going. Thank you for your service though.
ChakatBlackstar 29
After doing the math, even assuming the worst fuel mileage, maximum distance, and high gas prices, I can't see that being more then 20, maybe thirty dollars at most for gas money, and that's being extremely generous. There's no way a family can't pool that kind of money for a day that important to you. Sorry about your family being such cheap jerks.
redbear15 8
That sucks. I plan on joining the USMC on my 17th birthday. Thanks for your service.
redwill85 10
That really sucks OP. Thank you for your service. SEMPER FI
drumguy218 11
Thanks for the service OP! :)
kazmie 8
That's disgraceful. I traveled from nj for my bfs boot grad. Thank you for your service
chansik 3
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Ihavegas 22
just to be clear is your basic training for the military or police. either way congrats on completing it. Someone said semper fi so I'm guessing military.
JonDG 12
thank you for your service. at least you have the honor of knowing that all you hard work has paid off. it was a shit thing for your family not to show up but at least you know that you are moving on to bigger and better things.
worldclassrager 41
Maybe they at planning a party