Today, I realized that something's wrong when you have to go to a mental hospital for a family reunion. 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, I was talking to my sister-in-law on the phone. She brought up the family reunion last weekend and how my family is so strange. I didn't know there was a reunion, I wasn't invited. FML
Today, I found out how my parents met. They met at a mental hospital, where they were both being hospitalized. FML
Today, I'd arranged a family reunion to see family I hadn't seen in years. Out of about 20 people, only 3 said they would come. One messaged to cancel the night before. The other two no-showed. FML
Today, I reunited with my mother and my sisters after a long time. I actually walked out of the reunion, too, after I drove 800 km away, only to find out that they're fighting over my late father's inheritance. I had vanished from my family because they were always possessive and crawling up my ass every time. FML
Today, I’m an adult and my mother lives with me, not me with her. She found out I was going to be gone for 9 days on vacation and that she couldn’t come, so she had a “mental break down” and checked herself into a psych ward. Last year, she did the same thing when I graduated college and celebrated it. FML
Today, when I got to a family reunion, I realized I've been on the internet for so long that I've forgotten how to have an actual conversation with real people. Now I'm the "Weird Uncle." FML
Today, I have to pack for tomorrow's family vacation. For one week I get to be stuck in a one bedroom cabin with my alcoholic father, bipolar mother, and two much younger siblings who have a passion for screaming. FML
Today, I found out I wasn't invited to the annual family reunion. The reason? Everyone thinks I'm "creepy" because I'm the only adult who will go out and play with the kids. FML
Today, while at a family reunion, my parents kept bringing up horrible things I did when I was about 4-6 years-old that I've been trying to forget for decades. After a while, I just stormed out. When I came back in the room, my dad had the nerve to ask me why I left and why I wasn't talking to him. FML
Today, while at my family reunion, I learned my grandparents were first cousins. No wonder we're all crazy hillbillies. FML
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Top comments
Blacksxe 1
Yours too? We should have a giant party then. I'll bring the cake!!!
purebliss7 6
hope its not a glimps into your future. quick test do you hear the color purple?
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Comments (101)
perdix 31
Maybe it's your family business? Running a mental hospital can be very lucrative. The inmates, oops, patients with money never seem to get well enough to leave and the patients without are dumped under overpasses and given homemade panhandling signs.
JennWoo 0
Lol, perdix. Way to spin the humor! Comic relief is underrated! :)
JennWoo 0
That really does suck but isn't that better than a reunion at cemetery or a prison? I don't know your situation so of course you may not agree, but I tend to hold onto the "could be worse" thinking. I wish you luck and strength and I'm sorry this is part of your reality.
RedPillSucks 33
Family reunion at a cemetery? Yikes, girl!!
Pandacupcakelove 26
So if they are mentally ill, which is something they can't help they "ruin everything"? That doesn't sound fair...
monique8axel 6
Lol, make sure billy doesn't try to escape again
pastnastificatio 4
So... free pills?
buttercup_mcm 0
O wow that's deep!!!
McAninch35 9
That's what she said. Sorry, in light of the stupidity of the comment I had to.
GawdamitNappa 4
Dammit 69. Beat me to it. /:
ch3s 4
It funny how the comment that says "that's what she said" is #69
micahsmommy 13
At least YOu had to GO there rather than having family come visit you.
bizarre_ftw 22
Perhaps, then again, where's the fun in sanity? Plus they have better jackets there, they're a fashion statement and a puzzle in one!
dabomb1463 0
By choice or by relatives being there?
moneybagz131 6
Hi uncle Sam!