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bohorquez

11-07-2007, 05:07 PM

How many of you guys near close to your family? I currently live about 2 houses away from my family and yes I do spent quite a bit of time with them. So as you know I was in Mexico City last weekend until Monday morning.

So yesterday my sister tells me "Oh by the way, I'm NOT going to babysitting Aaron (my son) for a VERY long time". :wha: And while I was in Mexico I was telling my husband (when I there) that I was getting real tired of my sister. She's easily annoyed and irritated and almost every day I have to put her in check on how she's treating my son.

So it pisses me off that she said that especially when I know she wasn't taking care of him. She just happens to live with my parents who were taking care of Aaron while I was gone. :mad:

It's times like these that I really want my husband home. While my family is great there are times where I wished I lived FAR away. I already said to my husband that when he comes back we were buying a house and it wasn't going to be anywhere near my family (or his ha!). I think that because we live so close we get on each others nerves. Maybe if I was further away they'd appreciate us when we do visit.

Anytime we've gone of vacation my parents and my sister always call and say "when are you coming home we miss you!!" :bang: Have you guys felt the same way?

ecobian

11-07-2007, 05:13 PM

Girl! I live right behind my parents! Don't get me wrong, my parents are awesome and don't get into our business at all, but my sister and her son live there too (she's separated from her husband) and my brother and his wife (which i don't care too much for) also live there. Its so annoying when they don't pick up after themselves or help out around the house and are asking stupid questions! I always have to hear my mom complain about that! they are grown people and still act like little children. When my hubby gets back we are definately going to start looking into buying a house, but not too far!

Estrella*

11-07-2007, 05:38 PM

Hello Bohorquez
I can relate to you in someway I am staying in my Parents home right now as I can not afford to pay my mortgage payment on my own in decided to rent out my house which is only 5 mins away from my parents house but the problem is not my parents ..It’s my sisters I have a twin sister who is still leaving with my parents and she is great she helps out with my daughter all the time. but I also have an older sister who has three kids and is always @ my parents house she leaves her kids there since Friday and doesn’t pick them up till Sunday night if she could she would leave them all week there. Leaving me to care for them. I work a full time job and I am tired when the weekend comes around I want to sleep in on the weekends and I am use to having some quiet time because my daughter is pretty good when entertaining herself with coloring books or just watching T.V. when she is the only kid in the house .Now I have to deal with waking up early on weekends and kids screaming and fighting all the time no rest or quiet time anymore …but I keeping thinking everything will be over soon so hang in there and hopefully time will go by quickly and we will soon be able to have our life back again ..

NYCwife

11-07-2007, 06:53 PM

Yeah.. I live right across the street from my mother. She is an incredible help, but as much as she loves me, my husband and the kids, we also drive her nuts. My brother is also over several times a week (we are there every day)....it is definitely a love/hate relationship. I couldn't survive too far from my family. I have to move in August and have lived in my apartment since 1981. I have no idea where we will end up, since the market rate for a 2 bedroom in our area is over 2500 a month. I joke with my mother all the time that we will be living in her basement.
Ah... family...

peace
nycgrrl

ratito921

11-07-2007, 08:05 PM

my parents live next door and let me just tell you, I love my parents, but sometimes....sometimes.....I wish I was living in Mexico or Europe or the Arctic. I mean really.

I always ask my dad over for dinner because my mom stopped cooking a few years ago. So I feed him. My hubby thinks it's funny, but I feel bad for the guy.

My mother can be over bearing but aren't all mothers at some point? Did I mention I pay some of their bills too which makes things worse, considering they are the ones that owe us money.

Anyway....enough ranting....I'm really sorry things aren't so well for you. Just hang in there.

sdeb

11-07-2007, 08:54 PM

Oh my, so many people to relate too. I live with my parents. Their great and all but can annoy me soooooooo bad. And everyone of my brothers and sisters are less than five min. away. Can't get rid of anyone? Can't wait til husband is home to get away.

marflores

11-08-2007, 08:12 PM

OMG.....I live in CA and my parents live in Tx...I miss them alot. But.........................my MIL lives in front of us with SIL and husband plus 7 kids and that's a whole differnet story.

aprilstorm

11-09-2007, 02:21 AM

All of my family live here.....let me tell you there is so much drama that if I wrote a true story everyone would think it was fiction!!!! HAHA They drive me crazy and I know it's sad but it has gotten that I see my Mom every other day but for my siblings ....(6 sisters now living ..1 deceased and 2 brothers living...1 deceased) I only see or talk to some of them every 1-2 weeks and some only maybe 1 time a month. There is usually someone fighting with someone...one of my sister's didn't talk to another one for 2 years!!!!! I have found the best thing to do is to stay by yourself...even then someone will start some kind of rumour. Someone once told me that just because your family it doesn't mean you have to hang around each other. In my case that is so true. I have friends that know more about me and treat me better then my family does....but hey..that's life right???

laluna

11-09-2007, 05:08 AM

i can relate. i live about 15 min from my parents and they still get on my nerves.

egonzalez1975

11-09-2007, 06:02 AM

All of my family live here.....let me tell you there is so much drama that if I wrote a true story everyone would think it was fiction!!!! HAHA They drive me crazy and I know it's sad but it has gotten that I see my Mom every other day but for my siblings ....(6 of them now living ..1 deceased and 2 brothers living...1 deceased) I only see or talk to some of them every 1-2 weeks and some only maybe 1 time a month. There is usually someone fighting with someone...one of my sister's didn't talk to another one for 2 years!!!!! I have found the best thing to do is to stay by yourself...even then someone will start some kind of rumour. Someone once told me that just because your family it doesn't mean you have to hang around each other. In my case that is so true. I have friends that know more about me and treat me better then my family does....but hey..that's life right???

Are we related???????? :bounce:

aprilstorm

11-10-2007, 01:14 AM

That's so funny Ellie!!!! I thought I was the only one with the really really crazy family..:bounce:

egonzalez1975

11-10-2007, 04:39 AM

That's so funny Ellie!!!! I thought I was the only one with the really really crazy family..:bounce:

You have NO IDEA!!!!!! It is drama 24/7. We are a mess but when necessary we come together. I am the youngest of 4 girls who were raised by a single mother after our "horny" :rolleyes: father left for the "younger" woman. You could only imagine the drama. :bounce:

gdalicia

11-10-2007, 05:09 AM

My Mom's in the other room playing the Accordion right now. Nuff said.

egonzalez1975

11-10-2007, 05:44 AM

My Mom's in the other room playing the Accordion right now. Nuff said.

:bounce: I busted out laughing at work when I saw that you posted that. Yeah, I think that would just about send me over the edge. LMAO

Pinkpig

11-10-2007, 05:55 AM

My Mom's in the other room playing the Accordion right now. Nuff said.

LOL

aprilstorm

11-10-2007, 08:50 PM

Ellie...I feel your pain girl!!!! I know the drama :bleh:

gdalicia......... accordion ?????...you poor poor gilrl!!!!:D

garcia31

11-25-2007, 03:53 PM

liley99

11-25-2007, 04:22 PM

I can agree with everyone, I loved living apart form them. Because everyone wants to know what is going on with the other, and I hate gossip! So I understand each and everyone of you! I love them but better from a distance. As far as his family I would be fine if I never saw or talked to them again. They are a bunch of haters~~~~~. I love my nieces and nephews but not the women... drama, drama, drama! Gotta love the inlaws right! LOLOLOLOLOLOL.....

But what would we do without them, my family is a great help now that my husband is gone, but don't want to have to rely on them too much

mpls-mexico

11-25-2007, 05:25 PM

That's so funny Ellie!!!! I thought I was the only one with the really really crazy family..:bounce:

You are sooooo not alone! If I wrote about the drama in our family people wouldn't believe it. Sometimes I myself can't believe it is true. I have 4 sisters and 2 brothers and tons of other random people roaming and living at my parents house. One reason I moved away. There are now about 4 long states between us. I'm in midwest, them on westcoast. It is sad though, cuz I don't even feel like I can call up and chat. The conversation always starts..."have you heard what xxx did". Drama, drama. It is exhausting. I just can't believe they aren't exhuasted by it.

Our family would even make Jerry Springer blush.

LilB

11-25-2007, 06:08 PM

Yes..Family can most of time make it harder then easyier. I remember going to vist my family in chicago and they would ask the most annoying question over and over. ( Have you heard anything? Maybe you should used a differant lawyer or someone else!!! or the one that really pissed me off was ''Joe someone alreadt got his visa and they did'nt have to wait""). I would not vist them at all due to not hear this. Maybe once a month.

What is with family that they don't understand?????

Oh my gosh, I think I relate most to you. Since we started the immigration process, they knew they knew 150% more than me! It drove me nuts. I mean, of course, "Joe Blow got his visa without having to leave the country. Or plain Jane got her VISA in 3 months after doing this and this..." Ugh!!!! I'm glad it's all over!!! Or so I thought-get this!

So my stepmother (she's a naturalized US Citizen, born in Mexico and married my dad and got her naturalization back in 1998 or 99) tells me as I tell her Eric got his IR1 VISA on his passport and we were on our way to the Cordova Bridge, "Lynette, Eric is going to get his Green Card when he's at the bridge." I said, "No he's not. He's getting his passport stamped and getting his greencard in the mail about 6 weeks later or so...". And she's like, "No, Lynette! Don't tell me what they do and don't do! I already went through this process! How in the world would they send such a personal document via USPS?!" I'm even more stubborn and hard headed as her, and I told her,"I told you it's coming in the mail! That's what's happened to people for years now!!!" "Lynette!!!! I got mine and my daughter's at the bridge!" I got so mad at such a happy moment, but I calmed down and "le di la rason". I let her win. By the way, we all know who won that battle in the end...

muah ha ha!!!!!

needhelpfast

12-01-2007, 01:55 AM

My Mom's in the other room playing the Accordion right now. Nuff said.

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:bounce:

ratito921

12-01-2007, 02:11 AM

Our family would even make Jerry Springer blush.

my friends sister actually went on the show...you should meet her family. good lord :blush:

Pinkpig

12-01-2007, 02:39 AM

OH my Gosh, RAT.....you know someone who went on the Jerry Springer Show.....ROFLOL

ratito921

12-01-2007, 03:36 AM

OH my Gosh, RAT.....you know someone who went on the Jerry Springer Show.....ROFLOL

ok long story short this girl and her friends came up with a story of a love triangle with the bouncer at their strip joint. they were both in love with him and he was their babies daddy. So my friend said once her sister got there her friend tried to back out, but it was too late because they had to sign a contract and agree to a ton of stuff. So they went on the show, got in a fight, threw shoes all the while the bouncer is just sitting in the middle of it all having a ball. So they finished the show and had photo opportunities and my friend got to meet Jerry. This was back in the 90's when he was super popular. Funny story I thought.

Pinkpig

12-01-2007, 03:42 AM

My mouth is just open in disbelief.... So those people on those shows are real people. See why I refer to myself as Pollyanna.....LOL

ratito921

12-01-2007, 12:53 PM

no they wanted to be on tv. cheap thrill I guess, the story wasn't real but they played it like it was. I'm sure the majority of it is scripted with the crap load they throw out there, but this story was concocted from the sick twisted minds of these crazy girls.

Kikigurl1

12-01-2007, 01:34 PM

Right now I live with my parents and I know EXACTLY what you mean. I especially have problems with my mom, probably because we're so much alike so we clash and get in arguments ALL the time. You're def right about it being better when you're away from your family... when I lived on my own I got along great with my mom... she's like a good friend when I'm away. But after I've been with her for like 4 days or more days we start arguing again and are at each other's tails. Stinks.

I hope it gets better soon.. or well really I hope your hubby comes home soon! Hang in there!! :)

deborahalvarez

12-01-2007, 08:46 PM

Ok, I still can't get over alicia's mom playing the accordian.....LOL! I think I'd probably have a nervous breakdown. My mom kills me with her humming..... Even when Luis and I are listening to "our" music (of course all in spanish), she's NEVER heard the song, but she'll be humming away... Oh God Love Her!!!

I absolutely LOVE my parents, but I know what all of you mean. I pretty much have to stay here to take care of my parents. I have 2 older brothers, but they NEVER come back home to check on mom and dad. Heck, they barely even call and my dad has lung cancer and my mom has a heart condition. My brothers are the ones that really get on my nerves. Both make over $100,000 a year and NEVER help my parents financially (as mom and dad live on a fixed income). You go to my oldest brother's house and their walking around w/their noses so far in the air I'm amazed they're not scraping the ceiling..... Swirling their wine around in the glass, sniffing it and talking about what a good year that was.....(No Joke....Drives me crazy!!!!) My other brother goes through no less than a 12 pack of bud light a night, 3 packs of cigs a day and is so addicted to his computer game that it is actually scary. 4 nights out of the week he sleeps in his computer chair from where he passes out and never makes it to bed. It's interactive w/other ppl on the net and he's totally OBSESSED!!!!
Luis cut up a HUGE HUGE HUGE tree in my brothers backyard.....he was supposed to help Luis, but was so caught up on the computer he didn't find enough time to. Luis had been helping him in his yard and my brother had paid him $100. Luis cut the whole tree up by axe (which my brother couldn't even get one peice cut and had already said he was going to have to get a chainsaw)....after Luis cut it up, he stacked it for him too. My brother didn't give him a dime.... GRRRR!!!
My mother minds our business more than hers.... Mostly when it comes to bills and money. AHHHHH!!!!
But, you know....even though they drive me nuts, I don't think it'd be any better w/Luis' family in Mexico either. (Not after my experience w/my FIL!)

Hmmm.....I hear Colorado's nice....
LOL!!!! Ok, my rant turned into a book, I'm sorry.... But wow, what relief to get that off my chest! HAHA!!!

LilB

12-01-2007, 08:55 PM

tasksgirl

01-02-2008, 08:51 PM

Sorry old post but OMG does anyone find it crazy that nearly EVERYONE on here lives either WITH their parents, across the street from their parents, behind, next, etc. etc.?? My husband's family also is like 2 blocks away and before that we lived with them for THREE years.. I think I deserve a medal haha

tasksgirl

01-02-2008, 08:54 PM

OMG.....I live in CA and my parents live in Tx...I miss them alot. But.........................my MIL lives in front of us with SIL and husband plus 7 kids and that's a whole differnet story.

ME TOO.. I live in CA and my parents in TX.. and used to live with my MIL.. I want a guest house/double house situation like that too.. SOMETIMES lol..

HANNAH19

01-03-2008, 02:50 PM

My family lives 1 mile away from us and my husband's family is right next door!

jessfs8

01-03-2008, 03:41 PM

So I see I'm not the only one with crazy family. In 2001 I bought my house and my mom moved in with me so that she could help me with my son, after that she said she needed to care for my grandmother and she moved in as well. Last year when hubby and I were getting married she got upset with us and would not talk to us because I told her that we needed to find her an apartment and we were going to help her with it, she said she didn't know why she had to move. I explained to her that we wanted a little privacy as newlyweds, long story short my son,hubby and I were the ones who moved out to an apartment while she stayed in "my house". My hubby jokes about it saying what house? that's your mothers house don't claim what does not belong to you.

princesa

01-03-2008, 04:10 PM

Sometimes I just want to move away...my husband wants to put a house on my parents land and my father has agreed to this, but I'm not sure if I want to be that close....Sometimes I wish we could just move away...but my family is a great help with the boys even if they do make me crazy...

angela256z

01-03-2008, 11:33 PM

I have three families. Adopted, foster and Biological. 10 brothers and sisters in all, 3 moms, and 2 dads.

Adopted
Mom
Dad
2 sisters
5 brothers

Bio
Mom
1 Sister (deceased)

Foster
Mom
Dad
Sister

My biological mom is the one that drives me crazy! She is a big drama queen and blames me for everything. Like I am the reason she was put on drugs and life got bad after I left the house cause she lost the welfare check....But she has her good moments too and I can't help but love her since I did grow up with her. She thinks that she gave me a good life and everything, but really getting shot at when I was 16 years old cause she owed money to a dealer is not a good life.

My foster mom was actually my middle school teacher and I babysat for her. She helped me get adopted. She is the greatest. She kept me in school when I was ready to drop out.

Then my adopted family. Total drama with that many people, but we love it. They can drive me crazy and so can the state of Utah, but I can't wait to move home.

So yes I can relate. Crazy families!

angela256z

01-03-2008, 11:33 PM

opps can't count only 9 siblings....I was counting myself