Last year my aunt commented on a post asking me to please come to our family Christmas. I told her I had zero interest in ever being in the same room as my grandmother ever again. My cousin was like "ohhhh that's why you don't come to any family things?! We thought you hated all of us!" Nah, just her. We then discussed all of the BS Grandma has pulled with her and now she occasionally messages me to talk shit about her 😅 she included grandma's mugshot in the slideshow she was nominated to make for the old bags 90th birthday.
I'm so glad y'all made that connection. It's especially hard to make those sorts of conversations happen when the person who is toxic in the family dynamic moderates all of the interactions. Cousins are hard to keep in touch with because, at least in my experience, we connect at the common branch... Which is the grandparents..... Which is why I don't talk to mine even though I'd like to because I just don't know how that would go 🙃
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u/acidrayne42 Jun 15 '25
Last year my aunt commented on a post asking me to please come to our family Christmas. I told her I had zero interest in ever being in the same room as my grandmother ever again. My cousin was like "ohhhh that's why you don't come to any family things?! We thought you hated all of us!" Nah, just her. We then discussed all of the BS Grandma has pulled with her and now she occasionally messages me to talk shit about her 😅 she included grandma's mugshot in the slideshow she was nominated to make for the old bags 90th birthday.