Horrible family members?

[sgluckadoo]

Have you ever had to cut yourself off from a horrible family member? Care to share? I am dealing with this now and it is hard.

[bowrunner]

Yes I have finally had to cut myself off from a grandson who has ripped me off for thousands of dollars.  If he would apply himself to writing for TV he would do well as I was stupid enough to believe all of his stories.  He is a heroin addict and I was a fool.

[sgluckadoo]

Yes I have finally had to cut myself off from a grandson who has ripped me off for thousands of dollars.  If he would apply himself to writing for TV he would do well as I was stupid enough to believe all of his stories.  He is a heroin addict and I was a fool.

I am sorry about your grandson. My family member is an alcoholic and lies as easily as she breathes. She has destroyed relationships I had with other family members, lied about money issues, slandered my name because I won't support her lying, and refuses to admit she needs help. I just can't continue with her, if she won't get help, and she won't.

[kcetna]

I can relate, the whole family cut my brother in law out of our lives. It's a very long story and I am not getting into it,  but if you can steal from your sick mother, threaten other family members, that's grounds for being cut off from the whole family. He is a big time drug addict and now has a kid of his own and he is worse then ever.

[jenniferhoder]

I am so sorry to hear that. I have been very blessed with a wonderful family. I hope whatever your matter is, I hope you can work it out. Good luck.

[loulizlee]

I had to cut my sister out of my life for a while.  She was addicted to prescription medications.  Things got so bad she was impossible to talk to or reason with.  She alienated the whole family and all her former friends so that when her oldest daughter died of cancer two years ago, she ended up with no one to visit her.  My other sister and I are trying to mend our relationship with her.  I don't want to die not speaking to my sister.

[teresa3200]

So sorry about your situation. I have been lucky enough not to have to cut any members out. I feel bad for any one that has had to do that, I know a few people that have had too for certain reasons and it has caused such pain.

[sgluckadoo]

So sorry about your situation. I have been lucky enough not to have to cut any members out. I feel bad for any one that has had to do that, I know a few people that have had too for certain reasons and it has caused such pain.

Thanks. It really is very painful and it feels wrong even when it is the best/right thing to do. It is exhausting.

[raven1114]

Completely cut out no, there are ones though that I don't go out of my way to see though.

[Screwedupclick4life337]

Sometimes separating from them shows them that they gotta change for the better I just pray an hope God helps them an good luck with anyone having that problem

[djohnson43]

I wouldn't say my sister-in-law is horrible but it is very hard to get along with her. She thinks her kids are perfect and can do no wrong and that she is always right, which she is not.
My grandmother  and also My husbands natural mother on the other hand. Because of the things my grandmother did and said about my mom, my dad and us cut her out of our lives back before I even graduated High school and still was not talking to her 23 years ago when she died. My grandfather yes in a round about way.
As for my mother-in-law she is a plain out -ithch and my husband has had nothing to do with her since we got married 23 years ago. She has never even seen her granddaughters except for in the pictures his youngest brother were given. She was living with him at the time and she didn't like how he displayed them and tried to tear them up. He told her it was his house and he loved his nieces so would there for proudly display the pictures as he wished. If she didn't like it she could go live somewhere else.   

[Nancy5]

Yes, years ago the family had to cut ties with my uncle ( my mother's sister's husband).  He was a binge drunk.  He would go on these binges for a few months, quit his job, leave home, and sleep in the streets or shelters or anyplace he could find.  The bottle was more important than anything.  He was drunk so many times, and missed my father's funeral, my grandfather and grandmother's funeral (his inlaws), and even his own son's wedding, too drunk to attend, too drunk to know and too drunk to even care.  After a few months he would clean up his act, come home, promise to be good and my aunt would take him back!  This pattern continued until he finally died.  The sad thing was contact with my aunt was minumal because the family was sick of her taking him back time after time because he always repeated his drunk pattern.

[dancer139]

Luckly we don't have any horrible family members that screw up holiday parties.  i do have a brother that i haven't spoken to for 3 years but that is another story.
needless to say he will not be invited to any family parties.

[tikihut5]

Yes, there are a few people in my family I'm trying to cut out of my life.

[ghunter]

I am happy to said, I have not had to deal with a horrible family member.  The bad ones we just don't keep in touch with, but we need to learn to get along if we can and have peace on earth.