Who is the crazy relative in your family?

[LancesMom]

Thanksgiving is the time for families getting together to celebrate the holiday!

Who is the crazy relative in your family that you look forward to seeing or not?

Why?

[sharonanneb]

Everyone in my family is pretty cuckoo.  But I guess we always never look forward to my brother in law.  The one that stays home because he chooses to and makes my sister work. Then again, she's also not making him look for a job.  Which makes it partially her fault. 

But in other cases since everyone is crazy, I guess we all always look forward to seeing each other.  Even though of course as families do have their frets with each other, we always seem to have a great meal together.

[EireLass]

They would all say I'm the crazy. ha. I divorced myself from them many years ago, because of the things they choose to be involved with. And because I can't be "one of them"....they say I'm crazy. Okay....

[balagan_imma]

Let's see… there's DH's aunt who cannot go anywhere without her dog; he has separation anxiety and she feeds it by not going anywhere without him. She even has a handicap sticker so she can park in a close spot at the store so he can see her better. And she asked us to lock up our dog one year because hers was uncomfortable (and it was our house!)

Then there is my mom. Her first question is always "what are we drinking?" and she doesn't mean coke or pepsi. She is a pretty angry and prickley person who never seems happy and then needs to point out everyone's faults, even the kids. "here have some more wine, A----" seems to be the only solution.

I won't go into MIL and SIL, too much. They either extremely helpful or it's "gee, look at the time" literally 15 minutes after we finish eating.

I'm thinking that I have some real issues with family these days. Probably because we all live in the same city and see each other regularly. It doesn't seem like a treat to have a Thanksgiving meal together because we all take each other for granted.

[Aniyunwiya]

The better question would be who isn't?

We are all kind of crazy, but SO loving, I think the ONLY person we would really dread would be my aunt's husband because he was verbally (though i don't know about psychically) abuse to my aunt (and to a extent my cousins, but nowhere near as bad) and is a racist redneck, but they are either separated or divorced...(not sure, I know they don't live together anymore) so he doesn't come around really.

SO's family...well, pretty much the total opposite lol. Though I do enjoy his aunts husband (he is a mortician and FUNNY as all get out, we call ourselves the outlaws, as opposed to inlaws lol) and his cousins (all of them) for the most part (too bad they all live in different states DANG!). My MIL and SO's grandma i really cannot stand (and of course they live in the same town as us, less then six miles away, but fournately we hardly ever see them lol).

[LancesMom]

Quoting Aniyunwiya:

The better question would be who isn't?

LOL!

[CariO.]

Yep, this.

Quoting LancesMom:

Quoting Aniyunwiya:

The better question would be who isn't?

LOL!

[SunnyJoJo]

LMAO! My grandmother on my mom's side. God love her but seriously she's a little off kilter.

She spent my mom's childhood running around to bars with her boyfriend and was never there, BUT every holiday she makes up stories (new ones every time) about how she always had freshly grown from the garden she never had veggies and fresh made dip for her kids when they came home from school and such... cracks everyone up but she seems to genuinely believe it. She'll also give us random weird suggestions for everything, like she told me to feed my daughter lard to help her poop? Normally we just nod and say yes grandma... lol

[blsdbyangel07]

Ahh thankfully the craziest judgemental relative isn't coming for Thanksgiving ~ wahoo!  He (as in my brother) will be home for only 4 days for Christmas.  We don't get along.  He thinks he's perfect and he's crazy for thinking that!  Lmao i'm gonna just leave it at that  :) 

[CoeyG]

 Growing up we never partook in the family holidays.  My mother was estranged from her family and my dad was an only child who's parents had divorced when he was very small.  Most of his family lived in Missouri and Illinois we lived in California.  The only "family" holiday I ever celebrated outside our immediate family was the Christmas mom and dad were seperated and her and I were living with my aunt and uncle.  I loved it, mom hated it.  Funny thing, when my mom and dad got back together, I threw a fit and they literally had to drag me out of my aunt's house kicking and screaming.   According to my mother I was the family crazy...but that's okay. 

[Mom2theboy1994]

Not to toot my own crazy horn, but I am by far the nuttiest person in my family, lol. I don't know that they look foward to seeing me, but I know I keep it interesting. ;)