Does anyone have any strange relatives they'd care to comment on?
By ilyzium
@ilyzium (1197)
Canada
August 22, 2009 8:33pm CST
Well I'll begin. Ok well when the husband and I were staying with my relatives in Europe last year, my relatives drove us absolutely bonkers. My Aunt absolutely forbid my husband to lift a finger, even as to put away his glass of water, or dirty dishes. When I was showering he went to iron his shirt and my Aunt went absolutely ballistic, saying that no man has every ironed a shirt in her house, and no man is going to start now. Also, because their house was cold, every night my husband always brought me a hot water bottle to keep the bed warm, otherwise I was shivering to death. That also freaked out my Aunt, and again she freaked out and said that I'm to get my own hot water bottle, put away all the hubby's dishes, and not let him lift a finger. Also everything with the relatives is always manana manana and take forever to do anything. Also we would make plans to go sightseeing, but no had to wait until after breakfast was done, then we'd say ok we're leaving now, but then we were told we have to have our Turkish coffee mid-morning and blah, blah, blah. Often by the time we wound up going sightseeing, the tourist attraction would be closed.
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@roniroxas (10560)
• Philippines
23 Aug 09
before i start responding i would like to give you a big welcome to mylot 
hope you like it here like most of us do. i have a strange sister and lucky that i dont live with he ranymore. she visits us every once in a while but still i find her strange. my children finds her strange as well. lucky you are just staying there for a vacation, can you imagine if you live with them. lol. that would be like dying. lol. well we can really have nerve rocking relatives that of course we can not throw but we can do something and everything not to live with them. cheers. goodluck with mylot
hope you like it here like most of us do. i have a strange sister and lucky that i dont live with he ranymore. she visits us every once in a while but still i find her strange. my children finds her strange as well. lucky you are just staying there for a vacation, can you imagine if you live with them. lol. that would be like dying. lol. well we can really have nerve rocking relatives that of course we can not throw but we can do something and everything not to live with them. cheers. goodluck with mylot @ilyzium (1197)
• Canada
23 Aug 09
Thanks roniroxas-nice to be here. :)
Well, I guess as the expression goes: You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your relatives. Ha! Almost forgot but my in laws are very weird too. Well, they have small children but never do anything with them. We bought their kids bikes thinking that they would teach them to ride-never happened. We bought the kids swim lessons so that one of the parents would take them swimming. That too never happened. My little nephew has 3 watches, why 3 you ask? Well, because the other two ran out of batteries, so the mother bought a 3rd watch because she couldn't be bothered to replace the batteries. She also fed her kids cola when they were babies too. She'll never do anything for her kids either, has never played with them ever, the kids are not even allowed to play with other kids because she always says that she's not comfortable since they're STRANGERS! If she's had an argument with the husband, she takes it out on the kids by not making them dinner. Anyway, talking to her is like talking to a wall. Goes in one ear and out the next, plus she'll play the "race card" too and think that we're prejudiced of her skin color, which makes us even more mad, because that's her excuse to justify her bad behavior.
@roniroxas (10560)
• Philippines
23 Aug 09
wow thats a problematic one i can say. i think she has a lot of insecurities that she can not accept that she makes it her escape goat. i guess we can not choose our relatives but we can choose our friends but still even we have wierd friends it is still hard to ignore them
@ashjoe76 (1422)
• India
23 Aug 09
This sounds horrible. I wonder how you managed to spend your days with such 'relatives'! It may be a question of different perspectives, but it's clear that they made intrusions to your privacy and personal choices. One cannot do much in a situation like this, when it's a visit to the relatives. But I am sure that you will definitely avoid such visits in the future. I have some relatives who are worse than this, but I have learnt most of my lessons by now, like you, through some experiences. I believe I know whom to avoid now. A great relief is that friends are always much better than certain relatives - may be because we could choose the former.
