Familiy Feud About This Page:

[DVC_Don]

Family feud? Gosh yes! (mostly on my side) But that's all I'm going to air here.

[kimdisneynut]

I have 3 sisiters and we still fight. Dad always said we would fight until the day we leave this earth. On the upside we donot always talk and will go years without seeing or speaking to each other but in the TIME OF NEED WE ARE THERE FOR EACH OTHER. All we have to do is get the word that one is sick, needs helps and we are all there no questions asked or fights. We are so spoiled it stinks. DH's family is great nothing to complain on that side.

Kim

[Janet 46]

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We have had our share of disagreements with my family or John's family


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Hey, Tara, who is this John guy? I thought you were married to someone named "Muffin"!

[disneyprincess]

We have some here in our family. DH is the baby of 6, I am an only child. I have always loved the fact of how over the holidays his whole family has always gotten together and stuff. Well the brother that is a few years older than him has not spoken to either myself nor him for about 4yrs now. It was all because when he was getting married, DH had some issues with his back and was out of work for 3months! I had just had our thrid baby and he was only a few months old. Poor DH couldn't get out of bed and when he did he was on the livingroom floor eating, sleeping and would crawl on his hands and knees to use the bathroom! DH kept saying that we would be able to make the wedding and stuff. they live in PA we are in NJ. Finally I convinced him that we weren't going to be able to go and that I needed to call and let them know so that they didn't pay for us and the kids.

Well, BIL was soooooo angry that first I was the one that called, (I would think that he would be thankful that at least we called!) then he proceeded to curse DH out like crazy. DH was sooooo disgusted that he hung-up on him and threw the phone across the room. He was on so much pain meds that he didn't even remember the conversation. I called back and apologized to which he was nasty to me. I also called my then future SIL and left a message for her to call me because I wanted to explain everything. She never returned the call.

Til this day they have missed out on soooo much. BIL is my oldest DD godfather. He never sends a B-day card. Wasn't there for her first communion, etc. They have two children themselves. Their first was born two weeks prior to my youngest. Its a shame because since she was going through a pregnancy for the first time and I was but for the fourth time we could have shared a lot of stuff. We do go to some family gatherings, if they are there we don't speak to each other. They never did get along as I can remember from way before we ever got married but still.

Of course MIL feels the need to always say something every chance she gets which makes me really angry! She sees just the one side and doesn't see our side. Won't listen either. It's always been that DH is the black sheep and the rest of them are always right in what they do!

No thanks! That is why I live a whole other state away!

I just pray that my four children do not go through this when they are older. I hope that they stay close with each other.

[goofy4goofy]

My relationship within my immediate family is super! I get along really well with my brother and my Mom is my best friend. My Dad is the best. I really love my family. My son also adores them.

The extended family..well, it gets complicated. There are only a few people we don't really talk to. One is an alcoholic who has chosen to not really associate with the rest of us. He's also taken advantage of my parents in the past (asking for money for help and then using it for stupid things) and so I'm a little bitter about that. My other uncle I'm not really keen on either as he doesn't come around much and ignores my Gram. The rest of the family is pretty close on both sides. There are a few here and there that live across the country that we don't see often, but all in all, it's pretty nice.

My entire immediate family is planning a move to Florida next year..so I guess we'll be the ones who "live across the country." I hope my family stays as tight as we've been.

Kelly

[A. Monster]

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Another one is with DHs brother. I just can't seem to get along with him. I've tried everything! DH says that he's mad that his brother can't control him anymore, which I see as a good thing! But this man has threatened to kill me before, so I just don't see myself opening my heart to him again...

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Holy smokes it's like reading about my own life! I've always tried to be friendly and welcoming to this guy, but he will never accept the fact that he can't control DH anymore. He lives over two hours away, speaks to DH once every couple of months, never visits, and then tells me that he knows DH better than me and knows that I'm not what he wants, and I can be "eliminated." Nice, huh? Now I just try to avoid being in the same place because anything I say or do is interpreted as confrontational. I can't talk to DH around him without him putting in his two cents and trying to influence DH. But mainly, he tried to get DH to leave me for another woman - boy did he try!

And I have two sisters that we never see or talk to. One lives in the Bronx with her "husband" and a constant supply of marijuana, and who tried to blackmail my mother for money when my aunt passed away and her insurance paid out. The other chose partying and drugs over her two childrend and managed to "borrow" over $3000 in a two month span to pay her low income house rent ($150/mo - do the math) before getting evicted, blaming all of us for not giving her more money and leaving her two boys in two different places. She's seen them maybe 3 times in the past 4 years.

I can't believe we were even raised in the same household!