Magpiespower wrote:F@%kwit rellies you wouldn't p!ss on if they were on fire but you endure/suffer/put up with through gnashed teeth once in a blue moon just coz they're family...
Yep - can definitely identify with this. My rellies are all right but my ex had a few cockheads in the clan. My ex mother-in-law, who swore in court that I bashed my son - I DON'T HURT MY KIDS. NO ONE HURTS MY KIDS, YOU ARSEHOLE; her mother, who told me I was going to hell; my ex's cousin, who rang me up from the US precisely to inform me that Mr McSpaz was not my son's stepfather as we are not married; and my ex's uncle, who was an oxycodone addict and couldn't function without his mother telling him what to do. He had a thing for large women and would have two or three of them on the go at a time, and he used to let his dog crap on the floor of his house and not clean it up.

I put up with the lot of them while I was still married to the ex, and I still put up with them when I have to, for my son's sake - I mean, I can't tell him that his father's family is nuts, and they do care about him; it's about their one redeeming trait.