Tell us about your idiot relatives

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Dad - normally wonderful and supportive. However, with mom's recent fight with stage 4 uterine cancer, he's turned into a total ass, using "tough love", thus resulting in her feeling abandoned during her battle.

My Mom did this with my Dad's brain tumor. She read a book somewhere that said you shouldn't baby people with cancer. Well that would have been just hunky dory if the tumor wasn't pressing on the part of his brain that controlled motor functions. He couldn't make his hands work properly but because she read it in some mumbo jumbo book he was supposed to fend for himself, make his own dinner etc. Whatever.

And the reason she wasn't home was she was at the rest home visiting my great aunt, who thought it was 1932 most of the time and had no idea who was who. And who my mother wasn't close to at all until she became ill. I think my mom likes people to see what a great person she is - it's all for show. Look how she visits her Aunt every day, what a great gal.

She loves to visit the ill and elderly obscure relatives (second cousin's a billion times removed) but me or my sister - forget it. I can't tell you how many times we got sent home from school sick because she made us got to school as we were "faking".