I love my supportive parents. The rest of my family, however, don’t always support as they should. Exhibit A and B suffice to demonstrate:
Exhibit A
While discussing my upcoming trip to Europe, my cousin said this: “You need to make sure you bring a fiancé back from your trip. You are getting kind of old, and it’s about time, don’t you think?”
Exhibit B
As we left my dad called a distant relative (my dad’s sister’s husbands’ sister’s husband, to be exact) a creep. I laughed and asked what he said or did to deserve that descriptor. He’s an older man – maybe in his 60s, so couldn’t be too creepy, right? My dad simply responded with this: “He told me that he thought you have a hot body”. Gross.
An unrelated side note: Is it crazy that I spent a good deal of time at the family party thinking about how fun it’d be to bring the new guy I’m dating to a family party so he can laugh at my psychotic relatives with me?