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Who Gives A Shit?: Is Your Family Fucking Crazy?
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Erica | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 12:16AM
Erica | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 12:16AM 
Another simple question: Now that the holidaze are upon us, fess up:
Are you dreading hanging with your fam (or your in-laws)?
Is anyone batshit krazee?
Pls elaborate
That's it.
Again, answer in the comments (and feel free to go stealth anon if you want some prive).
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Reader Comments (5)
Yes: totally dreading hanging out with my in-laws.
EVERYONE is totally, 100% crazy, crazy, crazy (with zero self-awareness as an added bonus). Each family meal feels like we're partaking in the passive aggressive olympics. And, needless to say, they could all give Michael Phelps a run for his $$$--I've got a family full of gold medalists.
Insane in the membrane.
Is that Gabriel who wrote the post above? He's my personal trainer who likes to complain about his wife's crazy family of water polo freaks. He's just so cuban and lovely....
Guess what - all families are crazy to an extent. That's what makes them family.
Christmas for us, by our choosing, is now only a Brooklyn thing with the wife and kids while the rest of our family is spread across the US/World - an advantage of not being a non-native. We limit our familial stress exposure to Thanksgiving.
You have the power and can choose to make it sane or insane - a simple "no thanks" can save your sanity during Christmas.
If that won't work - then I recommend heavy pharma or alcohol and a car service.
the words, "you are not welcome at our wedding" were uttered.
My family used to be crazy, back when dad was still on the bottle, now we are lame. We are a low-cal, low drama, no glucose, no booze kinda group. We are the boringtons. The hub and I will have to be crazy all by ourselves.