Today, I went downstairs to get a drink and overheard my grandparents talking about me. They spent a good 15 minutes double-team attacking me for my failings as a human being, mainly me not being married with children yet. I'm barely 20. 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, I had to listen for over 10 minutes as my brother and grandmother discussed how much they hate me. They thought I was asleep. FML
Today, I overheard my in-laws talking about me. It started off with light insults and ended with, "People like her are the reason murder ain't always wrong". FML
Today, I went to visit my grandparents, as my grandmother may not have long left. When my stepfather wasn't grilling my visibly uncomfortable grandad about Bible passages, my mother was trauma-dumping about how hard her life has been, and how awful her marriage to my father was. They're his parents. FML
Today, I was over my grandparents' house for my grandfather's birthday. For years they would talk to each other in Italian and I could never understand them, so I started to take an online class to teach myself Italian. Now I know all they talk about is how much they hate everything about me. FML
Today, my parents said that we're never going to see our grandparents again because my grandpa hit my asshole little brother with a belt for calling him a boomer. I love my grandparents so much but my parents won't listen. FML
Today, my parents yelled at me for coming home at 1am this morning from a friend's birthday party. I'm 30 years old. 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, during a family reunion, my 89 year-old grandma stood up and drunkenly made a speech about how ashamed I should be of myself for still being single. She then passed out at the table. Half my family got up to help her, the other half whispered in agreement. FML
Today, I'm a 25-year-old married woman and I'm currently living with my grandfather to take care of him. Today, he grounded me. FML
Today, no one warned me that my grandfather was slipping into dementia. I proudly brought my new baby to meet him, only for him to burst into hysterical tears that I was a teenage whore, who’s now brought shame to the family. I'm 30 and married, but he still tried to hit me with his cane. FML
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CrassKal 27
If you have had your first blood, then you are clearly a woman with duties to fulfill. Act fast before you become a disheveled matron of 25 whom no man will touch.
MDoremis 38
Tell them the same thing I tell my parents when they asked why my husband and I haven't procreated yet: it will happen when we want it to, and it's not your decision or your business when it does.
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CrassKal 27
If you have had your first blood, then you are clearly a woman with duties to fulfill. Act fast before you become a disheveled matron of 25 whom no man will touch.
Calingaladha 21
25? Shit, I knew I'd forgotten to do something...
AcieMcG 21
Alright that leaves me 6 months to get married and reproduce XD
Blood_Tears123 7
What. The. Hell
MDoremis 38
Tell them the same thing I tell my parents when they asked why my husband and I haven't procreated yet: it will happen when we want it to, and it's not your decision or your business when it does.
rhyspiecesno8 18
It's ok op. They just probably want to see grandchildren before they die. Plus they're old it's not like their opinions will mauger in the next 10 years (hope the butthurt FML community knows I'm joking)
puppies4life 10
Great grandchildren*
blacklightening 11
it doesn't seem like they know u are joking. # triggered
rhyspiecesno8 18
My bad
rhyspiecesno8 18
Man I sound really mean in this. I apologize for ever writing this
AHzulu 25
Thought it was funny
aelarol 5
I see their point, most girls are knocked up at least once before 17 in the **** capital of the USA.
justcommenting19 19
That was confusingly stupid.
mfmylifesrsly 30
Your comment is not only stupid, but inaccurate. Teenage pregnancy is most common in Texas.
InfiniteSunshine 32
What do you mean you see their point? You realize they're criticizing OP because she HASN'T gotten pregnant yet, if she got pregnant they'd probably be happy, she's fulfilling her "duty as a human being." Also, is Florida the "****" capital of the US or something, do we have the pregnancy stats to back this up? Even if it is, what 2 people do consensually and legally is really none of your business. And if they do end up pregnant, well as long as they take responsibility, in whatever way that may be, then I think you should just keep your mouth shut about it.
mfmylifesrsly 30
@13 they are saying they see OPs grandparents points because they think OP's a failure because OP doesn't have kids yet and according to them most people at 17 in Florida already have kids.
swaddison 11
Nope, teen pregnancy is most common in Arkansas.
aimbug 42
It's okay, Op. Most of the time grandparents like things to be how they were in their day. I bet they are proud of you too.
Tripartita 45
Look, OP, I know this is probably hard to see, but they just want what's best for you. If you don't hurry up and find a husband to procreate with, how are you going to make fun of YOUR granddaughter for things that you perceive as shortcomings but that are actually responsible and right for her?
InfiniteSunshine 32
Grandparents can be like that, older generation standards. Mine, although they don't attack me or think I'm a failure, they also pressure me with the marriage and child stuff. They've been doing it since I was 17, "got a bf yet, we want some great grand babies," "when I was your age, I was already moved out and had 2 kids." That's cool grandpa, but me and my education come first, marriage is at least 5yrs away and kids are at least 10. You should confront them, tell them that you're barely an adult, you just got your independence you want your own life before you become responsible for someone else's.
OriginalOrange 5
get a doll and say that is your child
KyrieLyn 8
my sister did this with a build a bear bear and gave them the birth certificate to prove it.
StickyPickles 33
Time to prove them wrong op. . . Not necessarily the spouse part, but do something great to show them up, or for yourself for that matter. Use said criticism as your fuel to kick ass
nonamebranding 12
Better than pregnant at 16
Lalala579121 28
How? Being pregnant at 16 gets you onto reality TV shows.
Bearsmomma 30
They get paid a nice paycheck on those shows!
GhostFox 34
The paycheck PROBABLY doesn't cover the medical bills for treating the damage that is inevitably done to the mother's body, the 305k dollar cost of raising an average child to majority, let alone the inevitable medical bills for the psychiatrists more than a decade of those girls likes find up need.