My family is weird

[JohnKleeb]

discuss.

[Debi]

1. Kleeb...I don't know your family

:wtf:

[JohnKleeb]

3. youre lucky then

[Debi]

5. Every family is weird

Cuz we're all different

[JohnKleeb]

6. No my family seriously is

[Debi]

8. Well, I think you're pretty cool

from interacting with you on this board.

You don't seem weird at all to me.

[JohnKleeb]

10. Well I have my strange parts but seriously my family is messed up

[Debi]

17. Will you be going to college soon?

Will you be moving out?

[Huckebein the Raven]

2. how so ?

[JohnKleeb]

4. Ok My dad whos a recovering alcoholic

likes to talk with his sponsor and the guys from group so he can help out and stuff, and my mom doesnt like him talking on the phone with them. She also hates it when he gives people rides who dont have licenses.

[Debi]

7. alcoholism is hard on families

and sometimes it's hard to forgive the alcoholic even after recovery begins. Resentments stay and fester. Alcoholics find acceptance in their groups and sometimes forget to give back to their families (and sometimes are too ashamed or embarrassed to go back to their families).

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Yes...

and for some people, AA just seems to become another addiction; it's like they need that to fill the void left in their lives by the absence of alcohol...for some people it's almost like they've joined a cult.

[JohnKleeb]

11. Yes it seems to be that way

He really is doing a hell of a job at AA, but its not like a cult to him but an important part of his life.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Glad to hear he's doing well...

and that he had the self-awareness to realise he had a problem and the courage to "come in", as they say...some people never do.

[JohnKleeb]

25. Whats also neat is that he got a friend to go too

3 months sober now.

[Debi]

13. Which doesn't change the family dynamic

The spouse is still at home taking care of everything and the child still has only one - harried- parent that worries endlessly. What a terrible disease!!

[JohnKleeb]

23. Actually my dad is the closer thing to a stay at home

My mom works a lot.

[JohnKleeb]

12. The thing is, Ive only realized that he was one in the past year

Counted my blessings since Ive been in the car with him a good many times when hes been under the influence, he realizes hes extremely lucky.

[Debi]

14. Are you talking w/anyone?

Like alateen or a counselor?
I tried alanon for a while but it really didn't click with me.

[JohnKleeb]

21. No, not really

but its gotten better.

[rox63]

16. Every family is weird in their own way

Some are just better at hiding it. ;)

[Debi]

19. The damn elephant in the living room

n/t

[name not needed]

18. My family is much, much weirder.

I could go on for a while with examples.

[JohnKleeb]

20. ha I somehow doubt it

[name not needed]

22. My cousin's in prison for selling crack

My grandfather was in a Chinese crime syndicate
My great uncle destroyed my granfather's boat when he let my cousin drive it. And never paid him back for the boat.
My 2nd cousin never told her kids she got remarried.

I'm gonna stop here for now.

[JohnKleeb]

24. Ok youre right, sorry

As far as alcoholics go, mine certainly is up there.

[name not needed]

27. Fourth of July story

One year, my 2nd cousin Danny(the crack dealer) decides to come up from Virginia for the 4th of july weekend. My dad has him bring up some fireworks. Now, Danny never was one for abiding by any laws. He comes up with a TRUNKFULL of fireworks. He and my dad decide to shoot them off over the lagoon at my grandparent's house. Everybody's sitting in the backyard. There's a breeze blowing towards the house. As they shoot off the fireworks, the sparks are blown back by the wind towards the house. Hilarity ensues.

[JohnKleeb]

28. Damn

Hey you said Virginia, you seemed to know suburban va pretty well if I recall one time. Well i got this one fucked up uncle who calls his daughter and grandson trailer park trash, really pissed me off because Kelly and her kid are cool people. Hes an ass, my dad took care of my nana mostly, and he claims to the people he works with at the FCC that hes living at home to take care of his mom which eh wasnt doing, 'cording to my dad he was having a little bit of fun with the vodka.

[ismnotwasm]

29. Yeah, I gotta family like that too...

And, Mr Kleeb, at least you're Dad isn't actively drinking himself to death, the way mine is. Ugly way to go. My stepdaughter's Mom had boderline personality disorder and killed herself a few years ago, My son's father died from alcoholism a few month's ago,in fact once I get started on my family it sounds like bullshit because they are so weird, and there have been so many deaths and prison and mental illnesses. They all make me look good. Hang in there, though, hope your Dad kind of comes around back to family, people in AA usually do.

[JohnKleeb]

30. Its true

Still things still get ugly. Sorry about your dad.

[Theres-a]

26. My family could fill an entire season of Jerry Springer.

[Rowdyboy]

31. I live in fear of the day that I get a call from "The Jerry Springer Show"

telling me that one or both of my sister's and their families are guests and asking would I like to defend myself. I'm talking some really bad stories.

[JohnKleeb]

32. Hey you know its not real, dont you?

[Theres-a]

33. Well,I guess my family could start their own show

"Truth is stranger than fiction"

[Rowdyboy]

34. I do, but I'm not sure my sisters do.....

Seriously, they're not really THAT bad, but they're not people I'd be comfortable spending much time with. I have a 14 year old neice with a baby and a 17 year old nephew with a two year old. One sister is a (supposedly) ex-oxycontin addict who's done time in a mental ward, and the other is a Stepford Wife who'll stab you in the back for the fun of it, and is married to a yahoo whose speech is so country I can rarely understand him.

As a gay man in a long-term monogamous relationship, I'm the NORMAL one of the family and that is bizarre.

[JohnKleeb]

35. Oh man sorry about your niece and nephew

I cant imagine being a father, thats scary. Yeah you do seem like the normal one in the family, the way you tell me it.

[Rowdyboy]

36. Both the kids that have babies are dropouts....My other two neices

are married and have college degrees and haven't yet had children. I also have a married 42 year old brother and he and his wife want, but can't have, children. How fucked is this story?