Do you happen to have annoying, troublesome relatives (including all the inlaws), JWs as well as non JWs, that irritate you with their actions?
Annoying relatives
by greendawn 6 Replies latest watchtower bible
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mrsjones5
Yes I have those too but I make a point to interact as least as possible with them, which is quite easy now that I live over 2000 miles from most of them
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lilybird
Yes... I have a few relatives like that... but we don't see them much.. as hubby and I feel..after breaking away from an annoying cult.. we don't need anymore stress in our lives.. including stressful relatives.. life is very peaceful....well for the most part...
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undercover
I think most people have some annoying relatives. I know I do...and its not just the JW relatives. The non-JW relatives can be just as annoying. The JW relatives seemed more annoying because they were always there. I mean right there...in everything you did.
The thing about JW relatives is that, from my experience anyway, they tend to stick their nose into each others business more than non-JW families. Maybe its because they are considered outcasts (consider themselves anyway) from the world so they seek to maintain what social life they can with other JWs. If their family is JW then it just compounds the problem.
I grew up with several JW families that I considered more like family than I did any of my "worldly" family. I don't even know a lot of my distant cousins or aunts/uncles but I can name several cousins, aunts/uncles, great aunts/uncles, grandparents, great grandparents, etc of the JW families that I grew up with. And I knew a lot of their dirty little secrets. They all had to have an opinion on why 2nd-cousin-once-removed-to-uncle-Bob's-wife's-mother had to meet with the elders in private.
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rebel8
Hell yeah! I try to spend the least amount of time around them as possible. I prepare by memorizing interesting news stories to use when they say obnoxious things. I just totally ignore their statements and abruptly change the subject:
MIL: "When are you going to have a baby?"
Me: "OMG, Did you hear about that bus that crashed with 50 kids in it?"I also make sure to encourage alcohol consumption so they mellow out. I have some too so I can tolerate them better.
Another tactic I use is to pretend I am an animal behaviorist watching them. Who's that woman who studied the gorillas? I pretend I'm her. Watch their bizarre behavior and pretend to take notes about how wierd the animals are acting.
Silly, but it gets me through.
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greendawn
So the emotionally underdeveloped relatives seek to have destructive relationships with the more civilised members of the family. Always good to keep them at arm's length.
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greendawn
I remember my sister's mother in law apart from the fact that she was nagging her a lot, when I visited her city she didn't even invite me to her house even though I was a JW in good standing at the time. She talked rudely to me on the phone: "what can I, an old and sick woman do for you?", not even a cup of tea I suppose.
When she got run over and killed by a car as she was crossing the street years later I didn't feel any grief for her.