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)
vladimirnabokov 15
If my brother ever punched me, I would ******* push him down a flight of stairs. I wouldn't be returning if I were you. Skype them every now and then and call it even.
jennuhm 4
This should have said "as I was walking my ass out the door" instead of "when I started gathering my things". You DEFF don't deserve to be treated that way by anyone, especially family!
st0815 9
Are you doing something which would bring about a change, or do you feel powerless to affect their behaviour? Because if it's the latter it's unreasonable to have hope for a change. Then you should evaluate how the relationship affects your life - if it's just an annoyance, fine put up with it. However if it's a toxic relationship, if it takes your strength and self-confidence away - then please get out and break off the contact.
unlifeoftheparty 10
im curious as to what you did to deserve the punch and slap...
chippa 24
The slap was for drinking too much wine. Maybe the punch was for not drinking enough?
mgrabi01 10
I think your mom was crying,not because of the fact she believes you don't visit, but because she feels guilty for slapping you.
xRezSynn 15
I can understand now why you don't visit them often.
laden_swallow09 35
Battery and/or assault.
skyeyez9 25
Why do male siblings think its ok to physically assault their sister? Didn't they ever learn they shouldn't hit girls? Do they move onto abusing their girlfriends and wives too, since they have no qualms about hitting a girl?
BeepBeepSwerve 9
its not ok to hit anyone, regardless of their gender
tksbb156 1
For me it is the other way around, my sister physically abuses me. It has dropped off in the last few years. But it isn't always boy abuses girl.
mrperspire 4
Your not Meg are you?
sesor 7
Yep, your life sucks. Hopefully you have other people I your life who actually have respect for you as a person...