Psycho family members

[schrodinger]

Ever had the one or two psychos in your family? The ones where you wish could forever disappear because of what they've done to you or anyone else?

For me, I'm unfortunately now related to this complete utter psychotic ***** my uncle married a few months ago. They met about 5 years ago, and dated off and on until my uncle gets her pregnant. Now before she got pregnant my family and I heard many stories of what she did, like going to jail a couple times, getting arrested for assaulting her sister, and not to mention the amount of abuse she STILL does to my uncle; we're pretty sure she has severe mental issues.
He finally left her and their son, and went to marry this extremely nice woman who I was happy to have as an aunt. Since life hates my family he divorced her about 5 months later to go back with psycho *****. On top with getting married to psycho *****, he gets her pregnant AGAIN, and now have 2 sons. They are currently trying to get a daughter :I
no, NO, sorry SHE'S trying to get a daughter.
So i'm permanently bound to this lady because of my new cousins.

Spoiler

I actually like my cousins but I'm afraid they'll inherit their mother's mental issues.

The worse thing this woman is doing now is she's viciously harassing the woman my uncle married for a short time, for no apparent reason. Emails, phone calls, getting friends to harass her and now psycho ***** put the woman's personal info on a website called 'shesahomewreck', cruelly mocking her with exaggerated and false info. Again, the woman has done nothing to incite this insanity.
I foresee massive amounts of legal action against psycho ***** and i will gladly cheer on.

So, how's your family situations?

 

[Queen Michael]

A month ago, I finally quit having any contact with my dad. he always treats people like he's got a self-evident right to tell them what to do, he refuses to let you finish a single sentence ever, and he complains about every single thing you do that he doesn't like, so you can't ever relax around him.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Thankfully, my relatives are pretty cool. I guess the only problem is dealing with 4 parents worth of extended family.

 

[Wickatricka]

Ha my parents left me with 3 psychotic sisters who all act like totally twats and I never really talk to them anymore. Think I need to see a psychiatrist.

 

[Elfgore]

I almost stormed out of my Dad's house last week because the ass pissed me off.

Summary: I've wanted to be a game designer for the past 6 years, even with poor math skills. Set my self up for a school with good program, guy at the game design major tells me "it isn't going to happen". So a month before school starts I switched colleges and am probably going for a business or history major. My Dad gave me a lecture on how it was just the guy's "opinion" and how I should "go for my dream". I pretty much said I didn't want to be 22, a college dropout, living with my mother, working a dead end job, and owing 80k. I rather go a safe easy way. He claims he lives a life of regret because he didn't follow his dreams, yet I never have heard him complain about his job once in the 10 years he has worked there, and how he was "let down" by me and angry at my mother for agreeing with me. Downright pissed me off.

I feel in a couple of years I may be just like King Michael and complete cut my Dad out of my life. Guy is a greedy, selfish, asshole that only cares about himself. Bastard will pay for an airline ticket for his new wife and her daughter but won't give his own son gas money after he just turned 16 with no job. He filled my tank and told me "I better have a job by the time it is empty." I understand self reliance, but come on! Jobs just don't fall out of the damn sky, especially for a unskilled 16 year old. The worst thing is, the guy makes over 6 figures so he could easily give me gas money until I got a job but nope, better find a job in a month or no driving.

If you can't tell I kinda just vented a little about my father, maybe not psycho but annoying, asshole, and selfish come to mind. Man, I feel good right now!

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

My dad is pretty bad, or used to be. He's getting old now. He never did much to me, but others don't want anything to do with him because he apparently conned them, stole, lied, cheated on them etc. That's what they say at least. Some even say he's a psychopath.

I haven't seen him for over ten years, but recently decided to write a letter to him because I was curious. I was kind of expecting him to be a total ass or not reply at all. Instead, he wrote me back twice, about things that seemed perfectly normal and he came off as a decent guy. I don't know. I realize you need to be able to be that too, if you want to con people and similar, but it took me by surprise after hearing those stories about him.

 

[soren7550]

Where to begin? Better try to keep this short:

Father - Intense racist and anti-semite, tried to join a branch of the KKK, intense wife beater, child abuser, tried to murder several people, misogynist, neo Nazi, stalker, and I'm two siblings short because of him.

Mother - Married my father knowing he was a horrible PoS because 'she could change him' (in short, no she couldn't), stayed with him for over a decade in spite of all of the above, severely neglected her kids after her second failed marriage, got herself a replacement daughter because her actual daughter no longer blindly followed her and did as she said, made her youngest kids steal from their psycho father as well as lie to several courts/therapists/lawyers, frequently threatened to make her kids live with their psycho father if they didn't do as she said, left her kids to starve so that she could go out on trips and to see concerts, decided one morning to wake her blood daughter (me) by grabbing her by the ankle, throw her against the wall, screaming that if she didn't get a job/enroll in college/enlist in the military within the next two days she would kick her to the street even though she didn't go to college because of the lack of money and because of her (the mother's) frequent admissions to the hospital, and then proceeded to file a false police report to have her institutionalized and left her to rot in there [footnote]If you are wondering why I largely refer to myself in the third person here, it's because it infuriates me to no end, and I'm really trying to not start screaming right now.[/footnote] Also a racist and frequent bible thumper.

Oldest Brother - Childhood dream was to become a garbage man, so make of that what you will. Also racist and a misogynist.

Older Brother - Intense racist and anti-semite, misogynist, frequently beat people up because he could, one time hurling me across the room because he wanted the remote (this was not the sole time he abused me by far).

Younger Brother - Piss poor temper, beat anything up that moved (or didn't), tried to kill me on at least three separate occasions.

I've ceased talking to three of them, the other two I've had almost no contact with in the past two years. It's a wonder I haven't gone utterly mad, and no surprise that my nightmares are largely of them. But, I have my boyfriend now, and he keeps me human, and things would be perfect if I had my kitty (my brother isn't likely gonna give him back to me if I ever could have him), finances weren't a problem, and if the smelly roomies were gone.

Shit, that wasn't short at all. Sorry.

 

[Evil Smurf]

There is alcoholism and diabetes in my family, if I'm not careful I might get it.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Meh, I wouldn't say my Sister is psychotic but she's a damn far cry from being a decent human being.

She's roughly 7 years my senior and has never once in my life shown a capacity to understand how her actions might effect herself or others.

She's got two young kids who spend more time with other family members than with her because she...fuck I don't know why, presumably it's because she doesn't like the responsibility of being a mother.

In the past 5 years she's up and quit 2 government jobs with absolutely no backup employment lined up (once gain having to support herself and 2 kids) and refused to take others because it's not exactly what she wanted to be doing.

The worst part is that she uses her kids as a bargaining chip to get away with her deplorable behavior knowing that the rest of my family won't let the kids suffer.

It probably doesn't speak well of me that this particular game doesn't work on me. For what it's worth I'm of the opinion that she needs to spend a little time hitting rock bottom to get her shit together instead of emotionally and financially draining the rest of us. Yeah, she and most likely her kids would suffer in the short term but the longer she keeps at this the worse it's gonna be when our parents are too old to raise her kids for her.

 

[trollnystan]

My family is full of, if not psychos, mentally ill people of all kinds. Heck, I am one! And people wonder why I've decided not to have kids...

My father was an alcoholic, verging on bi-polar, manipulative bastard who is one of the primary reason why I am stuck in a circle of depression and self-hatred. My mother beat my brother for not being "good enough". My maternal uncle is also a drunk and he beat up his wife twice before she left him. My paternal grandfather was bipolar and despised imperfections. My maternal grandmother was a manipulative, holier-than-thou ***** who almost drove my sister into an eating disorder.

I could go on.

 

[moment_fast]

I almost stormed out of my Dad's house last week because the ass pissed me off.

Summary: I've wanted to be a game designer for the past 6 years, even with poor math skills. Set my self up for a school with good program, guy at the game design major tells me "it isn't going to happen". So a month before school starts I switched colleges and am probably going for a business or history major. My Dad gave me a lecture on how it was just the guy's "opinion" and how I should "go for my dream". I pretty much said I didn't want to be 22, a college dropout, living with my mother, working a dead end job, and owing 80k. I rather go a safe easy way. He claims he lives a life of regret because he didn't follow his dreams, yet I never have heard him complain about his job once in the 10 years he has worked there, and how he was "let down" by me and angry at my mother for agreeing with me. Downright pissed me off.

I feel in a couple of years I may be just like King Michael and complete cut my Dad out of my life. Guy is a greedy, selfish, asshole that only cares about himself. Bastard will pay for an airline ticket for his new wife and her daughter but won't give his own son gas money after he just turned 16 with no job. He filled my tank and told me "I better have a job by the time it is empty." I understand self reliance, but come on! Jobs just don't fall out of the damn sky, especially for a unskilled 16 year old. The worst thing is, the guy makes over 6 figures so he could easily give me gas money until I got a job but nope, better find a job in a month or no driving.

If you can't tell I kinda just vented a little about my father, maybe not psycho but annoying, asshole, and selfish come to mind. Man, I feel good right now!

Honestly, your Dad is just looking out for your best interests. If it is your dream to be a game designer and you know fully what being a game designer is about, have looked into it and aren't under the impression that you will be sitting in an office coming up with cool ideas for games and/or cool mechanics for games, then go for it. You'll regret not having gone after what you want to do if you end up stuck in a cubical working 9-5 shifts doing boring work that you don't enjoy for the rest of your life. As cliche as it is, life is short and you will spend most of your life working, so you may as well spend your time doing something you are passionate about instead of taking the secure way which ends up being easy, boring, and not fulfilling at all. There is a reason why there is a stereotype about boring jobs where people sit at a desk all day doing work they don't understand.

As for the gas thing, it's not about the money. I am sure your dad could spend all of his cash giving you gas money to drive around to anywhere you want without much of an issue, but there are two reasons that he isn't. 1. In collage, there is no way that you will be driving unless your manage to get a job, and there is a good chance that you won't be able to/want to due to having to focus on school. He is trying to get you use to the fact that you don't get freebies in life away from home. 2. The fact that him giving you money would take away from the lesson in responsibility that he is trying to teach you. While it may be hard for you to get a job and have a company hire you, he is trying to make it so that you are that much more motivated to get the job, meaning that you will most likely do a better job writing your resume and spend more time sending it to as many locations as you can. I'm sure that getting a job is not the first thing that any of us would want to do as teens and that is why he is pushing you so hard.

All and all your father is just trying to get you ready for how things are in the future, and he doesn't want you to end up growing up to be someone who is working a job they hate, or end up with the belief that things will just fall into place for them.

 

[Callate]

My grand-aunt was the kind of awful person who "mistook" long-haired men for girls and speculated about when her married childless nieces would get to the proper business of having children (all of this in front of these people, of course.)

She passed away several years ago, however, so we haven't had to suffer through Thanksgivings with her at the table for a while. God rest her soul.

I truly wonder where her daughter, a kind, openhearted, and sweet person, came from. The apple fell from the tree and took off running, I guess.

 

[SillyBear]

Nah my family are all pretty cool. I have a few cousins that I wouldn't be friends with if they were just random people in my life - but other than that no real complaints.

 

[Angelowl]

Father is a narcissist, complete with severe empathic shortcomings. Unable to comprehend the concept of "other people", he got that childish view that he is the only real person and no one else matters. Convinced that child abuse is not only legal, but also socially acceptable. Fortunately he is also a coward. When he calmed down and thought things through regarding my gender dysphoria, he got the perfect solution. I should kill myself, because then I won't harm the family's reputation any more.

No wonder I got severe paranoia during my teens.

On a side-note. He got no hobbies, barely any "friends", and no one who knows him respects him the least. I think I will refrain from any examples, to many and would be a boring read. And there are clearly worse parents. But I hesitate to call him that, since he is literally convinced that a parent's actions have no influence on how the kids turn out.

 

[Kae]

My grand-grandfather killed an entire family because he had some business go bad with them, just grabbed a rifle and went and shot them all dead including the children and then fled the country.
A grand-uncle was Paranoid Schizophrenic and murdered his wife and then killed himself, though as I said mentally ill and also hadn't been taking his meds.
Cousin, drug dealer, murderer, currently in jail serving a life sentence.

 

[nuttshell]

Almost everyone in my direct (parents and grandparents) family had some sort of serious psychological problem. On my mothers side, everyone had at least one major schizophrenic episode which landed them in mental institutions for a period of time. I've had one, some 6 years ago and I'm still recovering. My father and all women in my direct family are/were bipolar. My mother and father were also addicted to benzodiazepines and cocaine respectively. They all still loved and cared about me, which I mostly understood but it was hard, nonetheless.

 

[A.A.K]

Family of fighters...

Sounds cool, because I know when I tell people that they go "Caw! A family full of boxers and MMA artists!" but no...
I mean, 500 years of mobsters, mercenaries, and yes - 'conventional' fighters; MMA artists and the sorts, however - they are also street fighters, pit fighters and cage fighters.
Every single male in my family is taught to fight. Females can choose whether they want to learn, but the males don't have a choice.
Unsurprisingly, in the last 5 years, some of the more 'enlightened' people left the community or prayed they have a baby girl instead of a boy.


In the most recent new years eve we got into a gang fight with the lebanese, by virtue of them being lebanese. They wanted to fight us, by virtue of us being a Turkish and Syrian mix.
So, NYE was a 9v13 street fight...

Morals and social responsibility do not run so well in my family.

 

[Astoria]

Well a friend of mines mum (no seriously, my mum's awesome) has major issues. I don't know the full story but from what I can gather something happened when my friend turned 15 and her mum flat out refused to work anymore so she had to leave school so they didn't starve. In the years since her mum has been jumping from boyfriend to boyfriend trying to find some sucker to marry and get money from, usually dating multiple guys at once and married guys. She's late 40s but has been acting like a teenager, she says out for days at a time and only talks to my friend when she wants money for something. She literally threw a hissy fit when my friend wouldn't buy her a new phone. Meanwhile my friend has been working 40+ hours a week and has pretty much given up on a career because she has no time or money for education.

Here's where it gets fun, a few months ago she got with a rich married guy and got herself pregnant with twins. So, proud that she had accomplished her mission she went down and got his divorce papers so he could leave his wife, marry her and she could live happily ever after. She's even been slowly moving herself in while his wife is still there. Last time I talked to my friend she hadn't seen or heard from her mum for over a week, her mums basically abandoning her.

Although this guy her mums with might be even crazier. He is letting her move in but he has no intentions of divorcing his wife. In fact he even wants her to be the god mother to the kids. People man...they're crazy.

 

[loc978]

One of my cousins married a guy who talks like a card-carrying member of the Aryan Nation... every other word out of his mouth seems to be a racial slur, and he likes comparing firearms with people he knows who carry. Makes things awkward with me, he seems to think we're kindred spirits of some kind since we're both ex-military and we're both always armed... only it's part of my job still, and he sells auto parts. Also, I actually know how to conceal a weapon. Which is why my card says concealed handgun permit. [sub][sub][sub]jackass open-carrying around suburban teenagers just to get a reaction...[/sub][/sub][/sub]

Aside from him, I'm the psycho in the family. Mention certain cities around me, certain family names, some brands of sports jackets, one or two sports teams... and I see someone die again. Lots of different ones to trigger with me. Real conversation killer.
Happened tonight, even. Knew a kid from... here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuqlRcmmyPw].