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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Top comments
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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Comments (55)
heatherrr17 19
How old were they when they got married And had kids?!
Misskreher 30
Probably 18 or 19. My grandma got married at 18 and popped her first out at 19.
sweetpotato301 7
Yeah my grandma was 19. The average age of marriage and having children has gone way up.
acmariner99 25
Tell them to grow up and it's none of their business.
stayydomii 21
I'm sorry OP, I know it's hard to try to feel like you're doing something right in your life because of your parents. Things happen for a reason. You're on the right track.
beantownchivette 8
It's op's grandparents that want babies
ThatHorse 15
Don't be too mad at them OP. Remember they come from a time when humans were married at 15 and dead by 30, usually during a spear-hunt.
URBeingLied2 23
This isn't even a real problem, at all. FML
khadishja 12
damn...
Nonemustknow 15
That's rude of them and it's not even their business. Don't worry about them you are a great human being and shouldn't have to deal with such rudeness
zaidthunder1 27
At the time, marrying young was quite common, not really an excuse to bitch around though, which everyone still does in generation too.
theriama 3
It's situations like this I'm okay with the fact that my family trash talks about each other to their face.
darianvilla 10
Same here OP.... same here...