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To ask what the offensive person in your Christmas circle said this year round?

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LalalalaChristmas · 30/12/2024 17:31

I'll start. DH's grandmother was having a chat in the corner. She was telling someone that although we ( me and DH ) couldn't afford our wedding easily we had to get married when we did and couldnt delay it, otherwise I'd have been fighting my 'biological clock' and God forbid would have either had to have a baby before marriage or be an OLD MUM after! FWIW I am an old mum and proud lol I've had a fantastic life and career and now motherhood. So outrageous of me!! She has form for this and is still put out that despite her demands to pay for our wedding we did it ourselves. She brings it up at most events and smiles as she tellsnus how much better it could have been if we had taken her money. She is remarkably more polite when my sister is around ( because she would tell her to shut the fuck up lol ) so I know shes choosing to be this way. It was because I knew for the rest of my married life she would loudly announce the help she had given us to anyone who would listen, including probably my own poor parents at the expense of their feelings so now I think she tells herself we were poor to make herself feel better.. Luckily MIL is nothing like her and said 'you do talk some rubbish mum' and laughed it off. A bit later on she insisted we all watched her as she got her purse out and a wad of cash appeared for DH's sister and boyfriend who are recently engaged. Luckily his sister is a bit dim and said 'can you bank it and transfer me because nobody really uses cash nowadays' and the moment of heroism was slightly dampened as she said yes and put the cash away hahaha. She isn't a horrible person, just been a long few days!

Who did you have to put up with this year and what did they say? This is meant to be light hearted but if it's cathartic for you that's great too!

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Thepeopleversuswork · 30/12/2024 17:35

Posts like this make me eternally grateful not to have in laws (not in the country anyway).

None of my immediate family are arseholes either thankfully.

ChristmasGrinch24 · 30/12/2024 17:40

"Did you have a nice Christmas then?"

Literally after telling them my mother in law just passed away. Hmm

LalalalaChristmas · 30/12/2024 17:45

ChristmasGrinch24 · 30/12/2024 17:40

"Did you have a nice Christmas then?"

Literally after telling them my mother in law just passed away. Hmm

Ah I'm so sorry, hope you're okay. Comments like this sting so much when things are new and raw- wish people had more filter.

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ineedsun · 30/12/2024 17:45

I told my family that some friends used to (jokingly) say I looked like a comedically unattractive TV character from a 1960s TV show when I had my hair cut in a particular style , mum said ‘no she was much slimmer and taller than you’. 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️

LalalalaChristmas · 30/12/2024 17:45

Thepeopleversuswork · 30/12/2024 17:35

Posts like this make me eternally grateful not to have in laws (not in the country anyway).

None of my immediate family are arseholes either thankfully.

Hahaha so true. My in-laws are amazing, both roll their eyes very hard at her. She can be lovely but a few days of this sort of thing was exhausting!

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MochaLove · 30/12/2024 20:13

My grandmother told me I’d put on a lot of weight (post partum) and asked me if I’d managed to lose any. When I laughed in disbelief at what had come out of her mouth, she continued to go on, making it worse and worse 🙃 to make matters even worse, my young teenage cousin was sat with us too, so she was hearing her grandmother tell someone how fat they are. Not sure whether to laugh or cry!

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