To have a loving and caring family is a great blessing. However, even the most amazing home can have flaws that might be hurting.

Having blood ties doesn't mean that one is the same or similar to another. In some cases, a friend might be a closer person than the rest of the family. It all comes to the values and the way one thinks. With that in mind, I asked our pandas about a time when they felt uncomfortable because of something their family member said. Sadly or not, a lot of people had something to share. Scroll down to read the answers!

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community I wouldn't necessarily call it "uncomfortable" but here goes: It was at my father's 85th birthday party and his likewise elderly sister/my aunt -who I had not seen in many years- tells me, "I'm surprised you're not in jail". I didn't skip a beat. "I'm surprised you're not dead". She avoided me the rest of the day...

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community It was more of a smaller gathering (bc of covid).
One of my family members told me I would never make it to heaven if I kept being gay. Me, being the idiot I am, stood up and yelled, "Praise Satan, then" and stormed off.
Everyone went SILENT

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community I hadn't seen my brother for at least 15+ years due to his travel and spending time in Europe. He had returned to the states and lived a couple hours away but still no real contact. Then, mom got sick. So, I drove up to get him and then up to my mom's. Now, I had gone from being 15 to 30+ since I last saw him and I had pursued a career in which I needed to be in good shape, so I worked out a lot. Once mom got home from the hospital, we all got together and it was then that he announced to everyone that he thought I looked like Arnold Schwartzenegger in drag. My mom popped up and commented, 'yeah, and she rides a motorcycle, too'. He just glared at me and that was when I told him that I also rolled my own tampons and kickstarted my vibrator. I thought mom was going to pop her stitches and my dad, a very quiet man, choked on his tea. My brother never said another word about me.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community I was told I needed to get tips on doing my makeup. I was at my husband's funeral.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community Years ago I was starting to get gray hair. My youngest brother was going prematurely bald. At one family gathering he made some comment about my gray hair. I replied "Better gray than gone!" He looked stunned and everyone else laughed. He never commented again about my hair.

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Marco Conti
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can always die your hair. You'll need a sharpie to remediate a bald spot.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community My mom wanted me to take a succulent cutting from the garden of the airbnb where I was staying. I said no. She kept at at it. I said I'd ask the host. My mom said "what? why?? no!!!" and "I didn't raise you to ask permission!" I was slightly shocked and then thought for a second... it's true. She didn't, but somehow I know the difference between right and wrong anyway. Luckily, I don't do what my mom tells me to do.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community Thanksgiving. I was ten. First Thanksgiving with my step family. Walked into the kitchen to hear my dad say that my stepsister was the perfect child but I was a total disappointment. I started crying. He slapped me and said “what did you expect me to do, lie?” Everyone went off and started dinner as if nothing had happened. I was left standing by myself. I hate Thanksgiving. And my father.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community Saw my great uncle for the first time in years, first thing he says to me is "wow, you've grown! In many ways..." * Looks at my chest*.
Wtf Uncle Jeff, not cool bro

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community My grandmother: "Nice boys don't like fat girls, Mija," and then she got upset when I wouldn't eat the huge plate of food she served me. I was 9 or 10.

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When I was 17, we were preparing to have a regular dinner, with my grandma coming over as an extra guest.
The table was set, main course needed more time to finish cooking, and I was in the living room watching Cartoon Network as it didn't require a lot of attention and besides I like cartoons of all kind.
My grandma arrived and passed through the living room where she saw me watching tv. She stittered, loooed at me shocked and said " You
..still watch kid stuff?". I didn't bother explaining that lots of cartoons nowadays have subtle queues to relate for a mature audience as well, so I just replied "Uh, yeah, what of it?".
Later during dinner, my grandma would address my father with a concerned face and would say " You should take your son to see a psychiatrist." ( my father froze mid-sip and gazed at her questioningly ) " I caught him watching children's stuff on TV. This isn't right I believe he might be memtally undeveloped. I still want to have great-grandchildren!".
I was right next to her, contemplating how not to explode right there and then.
35 years old now. With a 9 month old baby boy, engaged. Still watching Avatar, Family Guy and whatever the hell I want, probably will watch cartoons till I die.

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Charlene Wilbur
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will be 40 in 14 days and I watch a s**t ton of cartoons. Ranging from my kids' shows to adult swim animation. I hate regular tv.

George Bernard
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 54 and I love Pixar and Disney movies. Eff that horrible woman.

jade s
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am 34 and can happily say I still watch "kids tv" at times. It's light hearted and easy to watch. This month I've been watching baymax shorts.

Katarzyna Drozd
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was shamed for the same stuff by my father. I also recall our talk 10 years ago, when I told him I'm gonna choose art college and he got angry and told me I'm gonna be homeless then, drawing people on streets and begging for change. I started career as an animator, i was making commercials, movie posproduction, events, now i make animations for mobile games. And I earn more than them both (dad and mom) together.

Izzy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

fkn good on you! i'm so proud of you. wishing you a lifetime of happiness, abundance, prosperity, and contentment surrounded by people who love and support you for who you are♥️

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did your Dad stand up for you? Because it sounds like Granny was/is (if she’s still alive—-assholes always manage to live forever, for some reason) the one in need of psychiatric help.

Samantha Melnychuk
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm damn near 40, and let me tell you, even Disney movies have innuendo and themes that go over kids heads so that adults will enjoy them. Shrek is a perfect example of a kids movie catering specifically to adults. So is Spongebob. People who think adults who watch cartoons are 'mentally deficient' lack a soul and have no creativity or inner child.

Pink kitty
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love Spongebob! I'm in my forties. Only started watching it last year and love it!

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Viviane
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my colleagues watches cartoons with his kids. I'm in awe of Tex Avery cartoons.

Mark Stewart
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

50 here and still watch cartoons. Half the fun of watching childhood favourites again is picking up the little jokes that passed you by as a kid, they become funny on a whole new level.

Terry Tobias
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I could find the Bugs Bunny cartoons that I used to watch on Saturday mornings as a kid (and for years after I grew up), I'd still be watching them.

Natasha
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me too, Saturday morning from 6am to 11am was where they had all the great cartoons. Not sure where you're from but we also had Jabba Jaws, Hong Kong Fewy (phewey ?) speed racer, scooby doo and lots of short cartoons. Great times, you had to get up to watch (parents still in bed and no option to record or "stream" anything ) and when it finished you got on your bike, trampoline or walked to your friends house (Born 1976 - 46yrs young)

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Penny Hernandez
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Prime example of differing understanding of cartoons: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (from the early 1960s) My oldest son, after watching it with his own children, said to me 'Now I know why you laughed at different things from me'.

Danniee Gyrl
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am 48 yo... I LOVE CARTOONS. My kid is 22, LOVES cartoons. Cartoons are amazingly awesome to watch. I love watching SCOOBY... wanna know why...Scooby teaches you that the real monsters in life are PEOPLE....

Izzy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

love scooby! so bummed that there's no more of the original format of the show. the most new series haven't been as enjoyable w the characters almost unrecognisable from what they used to be

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A.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder what Granny would say if she knew that several branches of the Armed Forces use graphic novels as training manuals.

phil blanque
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"You are still watching cartoons?"... "Oh yes, cartoons help me understand our family dynamics....well, cartoons and Grimm's fairy tales."

ShareMusic
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 67 and love animated movies, as long as they're made well. Just Avatar again last weekend. Love it!

Ralph Kretschmer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Must be the generation. My parents used to say this about cartoons and comics, that it was something for children and to be left behind after 10 or so.

Zach Heimann
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I said it once and I’ll say it again, “animated” does not mean “made for kids”.

Zach Heimann
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone who says that cartoons and animations aren’t real movies are f*****g idiots

CGDesign
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will watch cartoons on my deathbed! Same for video games!

J
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 54 and still watch cartoons including Family Guy, it's not a problem!

Tree P
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will be 56 this year and I watch more anime and cartoons than regular TV! There's nothing good on anyway!

Himory TheDreamer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

+18 cartoons are the solution for this sort of people, even if you don't really like it, showing them to people is sure to shut their mouth

B. Dahl
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Was Grandma a Boomer? They love popping off with crazy hateful stuff calling it "constructive criticism". My Uncle was a fountain of such verbal diarrhea. Cartoon Forever!

SageHare37
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My friend, watch what you like. In defense of "young person" media, books and movies: media aimed at adults are usually adult situations, relationships (good and bad), drama, violence, gore and mystery. Most media aimed at young people is full of friendship, adventure, magic and excitement. Neither are wrong. Both are entertaining. Watch/read what you like.

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2 years ago

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Agata Fronia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

still watching cartoons, my mum said once or you are watching cartoons, or movies with actors. Soon after there was Shrek, so I asked her same question 😹

Jackie Nettleton
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope you don’t take your son around to see her she is far too negative to have around him

Natasha
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I own and purchased through my 20's/30's and now early 40s - 27 seasons of the Simpson's, 12 of family guy and 12 of American dad. I love cartoon animation. Keep doing what you're doing.

Enigma wrapped in a paradox
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Baby boomers didn't grow up with the same entertainment gen X did. I look around and see grown adults doing "kid" stuff. Watching cartoons, gummy candy vitamins, using skate boards/scooters as actual transportation, wearing lounge/active wear out in public. All generations after the boomers were allowed to carry childhood habits into our adult lives.

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Christine Hoelle
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BOB’S BURGERS, BOJACK HORSEMAN, THE GREAT NORTH, BIGMOUTH, the list goes on and on.. ☺️

KING ILLEGAL FOREST
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 38 and my Sailor Moon dvd collection is still one of my most prized possessions.

Bubbles and sparks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Grandma missed out on all the fun in her life and figured you shouldn't have fun either... Good for you you still watch all them shows that you like.... I enjoy to watch anything I like too and even refer some of the things I watch to my son, and he's 30 ;p

Isolde Leeuwen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um...who doesn't? Avatar the animation..way better than the movie. Family guy is iconic. She is not young of spirit, is she.

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#11

The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community It was my very first art exhibition and I invited all of my family.. at the end of the show we all gathered outside to chat and in front of everyone, my dad walked up to me and handed me 5$ saying: here, have an allowance, because no one will buy these paintings!

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community My ex-MIL referring to the local shop owner who was an Asian man: "We don't like those sort of people here". This was on Walney Island, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria. Said ex-MIL was also probably one of the most boring people in existence in addition to being racist, having no interests, never read any books, just trashy magazines, never watched any films or listened to music, knew nothing about history or current affairs but full of negative opinions about others, while claiming to be a Christian and having the audacity to tell me I'll go to hell. The shop owner, btw, was always pleasant, friendly, helpful and courteous.

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PixxelDust
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sounds like the shop owner would have been a better person to have as a relative than that b***

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community My grandmas raised me saying things like "No man will ever love you if you don't..." (have long hair, dress like a lady, learn how to cook...). It hurt me a lot but especially subconsciously. I really grew up believing that the idea of me dating was ridiculous.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community I was raised by my grandmother. She used to say that no one with a working brain will ever love me because I was so "rebellious". So when I got a partner, she always says what a blessing it is, him not being intelligent enough to realize the fact of me being the mess I am, and I should thank all heavens for him being "dumb enough to be with you".
I'm very very grateful for him being the amazing and loving partner he is, but I keep hearing my grandmother's voice inside my thoughts. Also she passed away like 20 or so years ago. I never went to the graveyard.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community "If you don't want kids you just haven't found the right guy yet!" My boyfriend was right by my side

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community Every time I see my family, a few people comment on how I “need to eat more” or “you are too skinny”. I absolutely hate when people say that because I am very insecure about my body. (Also first post lol)

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community Uncle asked me why my sweater was dirty. Said I should have dressed nicer. We had no way to wash clothes, had no food a lot of the time, and no new clothes. Everything was hand me downs. Parents spent clothing allotments from welfare on themselves. Rest of the family cared so little and/or were so oblivious to their black sheep son and his wife's children ... when we went into foster care, none of them, all well off, would take us in. Another uncle called us insects.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community When I was six I had drawn a picture for my Auntie and when I gave it to her she said, "uh... ah..no." then threw it in the bin in front of me.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community You could never pass as a boy, darling.

Said by my mother to young trans me still trying to figure things out. Jokes on her I get "misgendered" every single day by people who don't even know me so I'm obviously doing something right.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community When I was thirteen, my mother scolded me (in front of a table full of people) for “flirting” with an adult male. I was mortified, especially as I had just laughed at one of the man’s jokes.

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Devil's Advocate
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately she might have noticed the man flirting with you which you didn't notice yourself at only 13?

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community Not at a family gathering, but I once had overheard my parents complaining about me and wishing that I was never born. It hurt a lot, and because I wasn’t supposed to hear their conversation I have to pretend to be oblivious and still act like I care for them.

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WillemPenn
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

IDK how old you are, but when you get out from under your parents' roof, remember you do not owe them anything. And there are lots of places where you can find support from others who come from abusiva and neglectful home. You are not alone. Your life matters. You matter.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community I hadn't seen my dad in a couple of years, due to distance. I went to my little brother's wedding. The very first thing dad said to me, loud enough for everyone to hear, was, "WOW! You got fat!" Of course, everyone had to turn around to see whom he was talking to.

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Charlene Wilbur
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First thing it if my dads mouth every time he sees me is about my weight. So frustrating!

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community At a family reunion on my mother's side, my father was repeatedly asked why I (younger daughter) didn't have any children, after all, my sister (3 years older) was already married and has two wonderful children. He got so annoyed about it that he announced that I was a lesbian. The family avoided me for the rest of the meeting.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community Had an in-law try to pick a physical fight with me at a funeral because I removed him from Facebook.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community TLDR version: I was told by my stepmother that I ruined our family Christmas, simply by being there.

Long version: I had a... troubled childhood, to say the least, too much to really go into, and honestly, I've blocked lots of it out and don't remember many details. I was extremely depressed, suicidal at times, and was violently acting out. My stepmother was the target of a lot of my distress, even though she wasn't necessarily the cause of it. My dad, and her, I guess, tried to help me as best as they could, but it got to the point where they didn't know what else to do, and sent me to a therapeutic boarding school. Part of the school's program involved home visits at specified times, and mine happened to line up with Christmas. When I got home, my stepmother was saying things along the lines of "it was so calm and quiet when you were gone, I was actually happy." I was trying to let things go, not make trouble, and repair the damage I'd done. Christmas morning, when we were all gathered around the tree, she looked me dead in the eyes and said "I hate that you're here. Just... you being here has ruined Christmas."

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2 things, both said by in-laws. 1- at a restaurant to waitress, “that’s our last grandkid. No more bcuz we can’t afford them.” We’ve never asked them for anything for the kids. And made me want to get prego just to show her! 2- estate sale for great granny passing, diff ppl walking through the house to buy stuff. Lil old ladies coming through, saw 1 put a trinket in her purse w/o paying. I let it go, wasn’t worth it. A young black guy came in looking for angels for his mom. He was a hard working kid, I knew he was good and had a good heart. FIL followed him all around. FIL and MIL both said at diff times, “those are the ones you have to watch.” I was so disgusted! That’s when I saw their true selves. I stay away and keep my kids away from them as much as possible.

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Caro Caro
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh Sh!t, you are right about keeping the kids away from them.

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#29

After I admitted I'd been raped, my Mother stated "You deserved everything that happened to you. You're no daughter of mine, you're disgusting really".

Needless to say, I no longer have a family.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dammit! My heart breaks for anyone who has had a parent react like this to anything at all, but ESPECIALLY rape. What a sh*tty, cold-hearted response. They lost you because they didn't deserve you. I hope you find love, peace, and healing.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community My grandmother when I was maybe 11:
"Oh you've gained weight again, and why are you still dressed like a boy"? After that she forced me to try on my great grandmother's moldy fur coat and asked me why I didn't like boys...
Ah family, great memories.

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Caro Caro
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An 11 year old should wear jeans, t-shirt and sneakers! Did she get out the fake "stick-on" beauty patch for you?

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My mom wouldn't let me get rainbow Vans.

Me: Mom, can I have those Vans?
Her: The rainbow ones? Ew, no.
Me: Why not?
Her, speaking quietly: I don't want people to think you are gay.
Me: But there's nothing wrong with it!
Her: Yes there is, I will not let you get them.
Me: Fine. *rolls eyes*

Since she doesn't know the pride flags, I got some blue-purple-pink ones instead. I'm bi-ace. Lol.

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After having had a car accident which left me crippled with back pain, I resumed swimming at 35. I started at my worst shape ever, my cardio was horrible and I was at pretty much double the weight my Dr would've liked me to be at.

At first, I couldn't 2 laps in a row without stopping to catch my breath and/or using my inhaler. After about 3 months, I could do 70 laps in a row, so I joined the local Triathlon club's swimming class to improve my technique.

Another 3 months later, I'm now swimming around 100-120 laps 3 times a week, and sharing at Christmas diner that my goal is to be able to swim a 3k race in a lake in an open water event the next summer.

My dad : yeah, but it's easy for you.
Me, looking at him quizzically
My dad, cracking up at his own joke : Well, just look at marine mammals!

So yeah, basically not dying, overcoming the trauma of the accident, transforming myself through sheer willpower into someone worthy of swimming alongside college students 15 years younger than myself DESPITE carrying the extra burden of my weight, that makes me a whale, manatee or beluga. And it's easy cause I "float".

Great. Thanks dad.

I looked away and spoke to my siblings the rest of the meal.

Kinda pisses me off that no one ever tells him off though. But whatever. People who see me swim call me a mermaid or a Valkyrie. I'm kind of both, and I love it.

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community "You are so pretty when you aren't heavy" - courtesy of my MIL, a few months after giving birth to her second grandchild from us in two years. (I gained about 35 pounds for the first and 2 pounds on top of that for the second). Meanwhile, her other son is a good 20 pounds underweight from switching to "healthier food intake". He was never overweight.

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#34

When I got the call that I have the job I wanted for years (after years of part time jobs and bad payment) I went to tell it my family their answer was “you’ll never know what might happen in the future so don’t be to happy about that”

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community Step-uncle-in-law gave me advice about giving birth

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#36

My Aunt had a habit every time she saw me, she’d say “showing a bit too much cleavage there honey!” She would then grab the neckline of whatever I was wearing at the time and trying to tug it up…………I mentioned it to mum and informed her from then on I planned to wear my most low cut shirts/dresses………She approved!

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I am a robot
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great response! Your aunt's physical behaviour also makes one wonder whether SHE wasn't enjoying the cleavage a bit too much herself...

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The Most Uncomfortable Moments When A Family Member Has Said Something Inappropriate or Inconsiderate: 50 Stories Shared By Our Community “Are you gay or just dumb” -Grandma 2020

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#38

My 71yo Aunt's husband who looked at my 21yo nigerian girlfriend saying that her skin color give him so much butterfly "down there"... My aunt was present so has my GF's mom...

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#39

Thirty years ago, my aunt (dad's sister) took me out to dinner to make sure I knew that the reason I was raped during a home intrusion a year earlier was because my mom was a whore when she was my age (she wasn't a virgin when she married my dad so... whore). "Sins of the father" type of bullshit.
She had only just found out about the assault because my dad made me keep it a secret from that side of the family or she would've informed me when it happened, I'm sure.

Cherry on top was becoming the "bad guy" in the family because I refused to be anywhere she was - I was supposed to put my feelings aside so as not to disrupt the family.

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Viviane
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Horrible human being. She's also deluded if she thinks that nuns are immune to sexual assault, let alone victim-blaming old bitches. It can happen to boys and men, too. Sounds like your father knew his sister was a judgmental, punitive shithead.

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#40

"Stop crying all the time." My grandma told me the day afther my mom killed herself. I was nine years old.

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#41

Someone at a wedding came up next to me and literally slapped my leg, remarking "that's for having tattoos!". If it had been a stranger I think I'd have punched them.

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#42

10 years of my life: elderly parents got sick, quit my job, moved in to take care them. Mom died in 6, Dad 4 years later. My older bro and younger sis did not visit, rarely called. After the reading of the will, brother said, “Your free ride is over. Get out. We’re (sister & him) selling the house.” I did corner bro at Dad’s funeral and said: “Your daughter saw how treated your parents. She will do the same to you.” Rest of the family hasn’t spoken to me since. Good riddance.

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Caro Caro
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Octavia, sorry for your loss and thanks for taking care of your parents. But happy for the loss of those sh!tty siblings.

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#43

Cousin told me at Christmas time 2016 that I wasn't liked by anyone in the family because of my severe anger issues and autism. I know it wasn't true and he was just annoyed at me for being sad that my other cousins got camcorders and gopros and stuff and I got cheap dresses, but it still made me uncomfortable and angry

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Bama Belle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, my sister pulled that s**t. 'Nobody likes you. We all talk about it. Even momma and daddy.'

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#44

Oh you're here, we thought you would be staying home again

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#45

"Where's your "boyfriend"?" They used air quotes and everything! My reply was, "He's working." He always works weekends, still does and now he's my husband, I eventually had him take a Saturday off so they he could meet some of my more extended family.

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Joey Marlin
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I started pretending my husband was working so he didn't have to put up with my relatives. They do know he exists though.

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#46

My mothers uncle telling me that my boos are just the perfect size when I was only 14.

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Not uncomfortable for me per say because I agreed and appreciated the sentiment, but definitely not the time lol. A little back story . My fiance' and I bought our first home and after it closed we took a trip to his family home state across the country. I had spoken to his grandparents regularly on the phone so they "knew" me but never met me in person. (they are in their 70's / 80's so no technology to video chat). It was my Fiance, me, his brother, his wife, and father all going. Brother J and his wife are a bit famous in the family because wifey is a gold digger and lazy. She never works, and when she does doesn't hold a job for more than a month or so. Spends all his money and when he was deployed there were other questions in the family about her faithfulness, anyhow... Grandpa is in his late 70's and is an old Puerto Rican New Yorker, he gives ZERO f***s about couth. (one thing I adore about him actually) Once we physically met we were instant pals and I adore this man immensely. We all went out for supper the first night and everyone was chatting and catching up. Out of nowhere gramps turns to Wifey and says "So you got a job yet?" She said laughing "No grandpa I'm a stay at home mom" "Why???" He boomed. "Kids have school no? What you need to stay home for now? They aren't in diapers." He looked at me. I thought oh s**t, my turn. "What about you? You still working?" "Yes Grandpa I am." "Still doing 35 hour of overtime a week?" "Yes Grandpa" "Ohhh so you don't live off my Grandson huh? That's good, that's good. How long do you have now at you job?" (15 years grandpa... almost 16." (Turning to her) "Huh so you retire in a few years then? Weird, see (Wife) it's not that hard." I about fell over laughing but held it together. Although awkward, it was nice to know I am not on that man's bad side. I'd like to feel bad for (Wife) but I can't I wasn't raised to take advantage of people and it didn't even bother her. When we got home she had a job handed to her on a silver platter. Work from home, great benefits and great money courtesy of my fiance. She quit just over a month later.

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#48

I could take up this whole thread with my mother-in-law but one time she asked my husband what my bra size is.

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#49

Made lots of jokes about mental disorders, and a good deal of homophobic comments.

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Samantha Lomb
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People of color and people who don't speak English in my extended family. and my mom used to wonder why I never wanted to go for Thanksgiving. She no longer wonders

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#50

There's just always that one relative or a family member who has a lot of obnoxious stuff to say, nobody likes to hear it, but still has to. It seems like a magical ability to just share things that nobody wants to hear.

One relative of mine just talks non-stop about her ailments, it's depressing. The other just had some really unpleasant opinions.

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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have two cousins my age ca 40 who both are mentally disabled whom I love dearly but while one of them is so funny and outgoing, the other one is not and talks about weird stuff like the colour on rocks or something extremely boring and the one outgoing who is more disabled, doesn't have the patience to talk to the other and afterwards she is worned out of her mind. But they are so sweet and precious and I'm blessed to have grown up with them🥰❤❤❤❤

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