#14

My mum harps on a similar line too if I ever complain about being unhappy.
It’s quite hard to describe how ultimately the depressing parts of life come from knowing I’ll never be good enough to actually do anything I want to do, too emotionally crippled to build any sort of quality of life, and that returning to South Wales would only ever make things worse. I’m just meat stepping in the grave, like literally everyone before me, it’s a bit strange to expect someone to just arbitrarily find happiness from it.

#15

Can we not just make this a general mother in law thread?!

#16

My sister is great. My brother has the potential to be great if he spent less time admiring himself.

#17

They’re all a GB of L but we’re very, very different.

#18

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#20

My immediate family are great. My mum and dad did a brilliant job bringing me and my sister up, even though they had it pretty tough with us growing up. But I’d like to think both me and my sister are both very down to earth and caring people, who had a chance to better ourselves in life.

I’m very close to my sister nowadays, as well as my brother in law, and niece and nephews. I’m taking the eldest to another gig on Thursday, his third ever. I didn’t really get that opportunity at his age, I’m probably going to hate the band, but it should be nice spending time with him.

My dads side of the family are self centered working class Tories, who are horrible people and we have nothing to do with.

My mums side are lovely, although they are from Middlesbrough so we hardly see them. But my northern Nan, was much more of a Nan to me that my London Nan.

#21

Hey @he_2, you’re pretty awesome, even though you don’t feel it most of the time.

Drinks sometime next month?

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#22

I told my dad I was moving home, partly because of high house prices*, and instead of displaying the expected positive emotion he said ‘oh. How much do you need to buy a bigger house?’. Ffs dad.

* but mostly because I wanted to be near home

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#23

Uh Dads.

Whenever my mum asks me to move home, my dad is always in the background shouting "tell her she’s got 3 boxes of shit in the loft she needs to come clear out"
like I won’t bring a shit load more stuff with me if I move back home?

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#24

Are you two family?!
I always just through you were just friends!!

#25

brothers, innit. We didn’t feel the need to go on and on about it like the @meths/@eems axis though :wink:

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#26

AHH amazing! This is v nice.

#27

or me and @shrewbie

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#28

she used to, I think she quite enjoys the space now.

#29

I’d say we’ve moved into a place now where we’re all thankful that we still have a family unit, however fractured and dysfunctional it might otherwise seem. Everything I am, both good and bad, comes from them in some way or other.

#30

At a family gathering shortly after the birth of her first grandchild (not mine) she stood up and made a toast to the new addition to the family, Joshua.

The kids name is Rudy, and had been since his birthday about 4 weeks previous. There are no Joshuas or any other similar names in the family.

Everyone obviously pissed themselves laughing but she just pretended it hadn’t happened cos she’s never wrong.

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#31

That’s literally all I’m giving

#32

That is actually good and funny though

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#33

I know that’s why I went with that tit bit otherwise the thread is inherently hypocritical

#34

“tit bit”

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