family cold wars

Nov 9, 2008 at 5:14 AM
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The cold war continues between my second oldest aunt and my uncle. Awwwwwkward.

I never knew this, but my two youngest aunts on my Japanese side are also in a cold war of their own.

My youngest aunt married into a wealthy family, and they were flying high back in the day. But when the economic bubble burst back in the early 90s, they lost everything. They lost EVERYTHING. The hardest thing for them to lose was their pride though.

So it must have been really hard for my youngest aunt to beg for money from her four sisters. After all, until then she had left her working class roots behind and was living the dream. The two sisters who married Americans were still poor as shit and couldn't really help, but my oldest aunt gave her a couple million yen, and my second youngest aunt also convinced her husband to part with five million. She then also secretly withdrew an extra 3 million for her baby sister.

A few years later, my second oldest aunt's husband also lost everything, and he left her. She asked her baby sister to please pay back some of the money, and that was the start of the cold war.

My youngest aunt didn't see why she should pay any of the money back, and pleaded her case to my oldest aunt (who is the matriarch of the family, and more like a mother/grandmother). My oldest aunt said "well you borrowed the money, pay it back." Youngest aunt shed angry tears and said she'll pay it all back to the last penny, just to make a point.

And she eventually did. But there is still a lot of anymosity between them.

Family is so stressful.

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Have you ever heard the saying, "You can choose your friends but not your family"? I'm convinced that all families are fucked up in same way or another.

I agree with Johnnysan

I have this aunt who's a total homophobe and weird and old, and she never god married. Anyways, shw prefered her work over a man, and one day they fire her but she had a shitload of money because she saved most of the money she was being paid for over 20 years.

Anyways, my uncle [her brother] married a bitch [whol likes to steal from her own family] and he borrowed my aunt's car [who eventually let him keep it] and part of the money she saved for her retirement. When my grandma died last year, my aunt had spent most of her money already, and she was trying to get a job or start a business. My aunt was depending of my grandma's insurance monthly checks to eat, so when she died, my aunt didn't have much money to support herself,

Long story short, when my uncle knew that my grandma had left all of her money to mu aunt [who took care of her when everyone else left] he asked her if he could borrow some of the money to buy a new car, and mu aunt gave it to him.

Next month my uncle is going to receive this shitload of money and he refuses to pay my aunt. He went to my mom's office [she works at a furniture store] and asked her if she could give him a cheap dinning table set. My mom said that she could give anything away for free, and they needed to pay the full price [those freaking things they sale are fuckign expenssive & OVERPRICED].

I hate his family, especially his wife...