There are friends, there are co-workers, there are lovers and total strangers. Since no man is an island, we live surrounded by people we like, tolerate or dislike.
But there’s one peculiar group of people we basically spend all our lives with. We constantly catch up during reunions, dinners, or Christmas, spend time together as kids (and adults!), send congratulations cards to each other and feel obliged to be patient no matter how much they’d annoy us. And the fact that we often have little in common except being tied in blood makes it all the more crazy.
This is, of course, when we talk about ‘difficult’ relatives, and not the ones that are seriously our most loved people on earth (I am looking at you, cousin!) So today, we’re diving into the not-the-most-pleasant encounters where people ran into ridiculously entitled family members.
Get ready to fume like this post was a Russian 'banya,’ scroll down through the stories and be sure to share your experience of sharing a family with a person who feels like they inherently deserve more than anyone else!
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My Mother Kicked Me Out Before Christmas But Still Asked Me When She Was Going To Receive Her Gift That I Had Bought Her
Aunt Doesn’t Like That I Asked Her To Pay Shipping
I admire this person calm demeanour, held their sh*t together so well. I'd have delivered the books, with a right hook.
“It's totally OK not to get along with some of your relatives,” Francis Merson, Clinical Psychologist and Founder of the Paris Psychology Centre, told Bored Panda. “In fact, it would be remarkable to get along with the multitude of cousins, aunts, nephews, second cousins etc. that most of us have.”
So no wonder that conflicts happen now and then, and it seems like there’s never really peace in your extended family. “If there's been some kind of conflict with a relative, it can be useful to zoom out from the situation with the following thought experiment... Imagine you're at the very end of your life, and you're looking back on your current situation. What advice would you give to yourself now? To smooth things over with this relative and keep the peace? Or let the relationship slide and move on?”
According to Merson, there's no right or wrong answer to these questions, “but they can take you out of the heat of the moment and prompt you to reflect on which course of action is most in line with your deeper values.”
Mom Asked For 'Old Phone' As Temp For Uncle, Offered Old Phone, Can't Be Too Old Has To Be iPhone 6 Or Above
My Sister Needed A Job
Sister Wants To Squat In Op's Spare Room But Demands That She Stop Practicing Violin That She Plays For Her Job
The clinical psychologist explained that entitlement is an entrenched belief that you deserve more than other people do. “Entitled people often feel that the rules don't apply to them, and they should be allowed to act with impunity. A sense of entitlement can also be involved in Narcissistic Personality Disorder,” Merson explained and added that “Entitled people can often cross people's boundaries, because they think these boundaries don't apply to them.”
Shared My Netflix Years Ago With My Mom And Sister, Then Had An Issue Last Night So I Checked The Recent Devices. Found Out There Were Tons Of People With My Password, Plus Someone Upped My Plan. Reset My Password And Told My Sister I Wasn't Going To Share My Password Anymore. Chaos
Wow. I'm genuinely shocked that a mom would talk to her kid like that over a freaking Netflix subscription.
Sister Sent Me This... She Was Blocked Immediately After
Oh My God, What A Spoiled Brat
When asked how one should deal with an entitled relative, Merson said that you may have to come to terms with it. “If your relative is an entitled person, you might need to accept that you're not going to alter this personality trait by calling them out on their behavior (as tempting as it might be to do so!).”
Moreover, “Entitled people generally react poorly to criticism, and might end up putting all the blame on you,” Merson said. He continued: “So the first question to consider is: would it be wiser and kinder to myself just to let this go? This doesn't mean accepting that what they did was right or OK, but accepting that there's nothing useful you can do about it right now.”
Op’s Ex Wife Doesn’t Want Son To Get A Better Car Then She Does
My Dad Thinks That Him And My Brother Is Entitled To Everything I Own. Even Though I Bought It With My Own Money. This Is Why I'm Gonna Move Out The Second I Turn 18.
Steam doesn't give you viruses your brother was watching porn on your PC.
Unfortunately, I ran into this same problem. I googled Steam and clicked the first link and started the download before I realized it was a scam site. I was lucky and was able to clean the computer before we ran into problems but, just sayin, it's not an unlikely story.
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So, OP is under 18 and can't leave. What they CAN do is set up different user profiles - the admin one is password protected and is the only way to install anything. The other is a guest profile for the brother. Can't do ANYTHING with this other than their homework and limited internet access.
Take the computer into a PC repair shop and get it cleaned up... have them sell it. Tell dad and brother it was unrepairable due to the viruses and you can't afford another one. Then get a laptop and keep it hidden.
Well dad thinks she's just a girl here to serve and son is a man who gets to control girls.....and so the misogyny continues. Lock the computer with limited access for brother including time limits
i am so glad we have an xbox 360 and a computer so this doesnt happen
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It is his problem. If he forced you to lend your computer to your brother, HE's in charge of what happens, along with the brother. They ought to pay for the fixing of the computer.
The deal was to use her computer for doing homework not games. Easy to see dad doesn't understand fairness. Bully
Fix the computer, but don't tell them it's fixed. Move out as soon as you can.
woooooowww your dad is so toxic your brother needs to be around better people so he learns what he did wrong
Get a good antivirus. One that lets you avoid some executables and avoid installations unless you enter a password. Then, create a user with no rights for your brother. After doing so, so are safer ti let him use the pc.
This happened to me I know exactly how you feel. But I’m your case, if you can work to buy a computer then I think you can move out? I can’t do that so I’m forced to share but you can!
My Cousin Asked For Help And I Offered What I Could. It Was Immediate Or Enough So I’m In A State Of Disrepair And Caused Our Grandads Dementia
I'm sorry you are going through this. I am in a similar situation. It never ceases to amaze me how vicious family can become when they think there is money...jackals they are! No offense to true jackals.
That being said, there are some things you can't just let go. The clinical psychologist said that “if your relative has crossed a line that could result in physical or emotional harm to yourself or others, then of course you have to act.”
“In this case, basic assertiveness can be useful. Describe, in simple terms, their behavior, the effect it is having on others—and ask them politely to stop. If they don't stop, then problem-solve the situation by looking after the people who you feel are at risk of harm—which could mean just getting out of there,” Merson concluded.
Homeless Guy & Pregnant Girlfriend Are Above A Job That Pays Above Minimum Wage!
No You Can't Come Grieve Your Sister...
Yes. You are the a*$*holes. My first stepmother had the same name as me. Yeah it was weird seeing 'my' name on the order of service and later on, the gravestone, but nobody made a big deal out of it, certainly not me. To actually deny a family member the chance to say goodbye just because they look like the deceased is extremely selfish. I get that they're grieving, but the only acceptable reason for asking a family member to stay away is if the deceased personally requested it or family history suggests that it would be a bad idea to have certain relatives in close proximity.
The Reason I Associate As Little As Possible With My Half Brother
Some Kids Are The Worst Kind Of Choosing Beggars.
This Is Just Sad
I Had This Lovely Conversation After Getting Multiple Calls From Her. Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is My Older Sister, A Mua, That Has Complained About People Doing The Same Thing To Her That She’s Doing To Me...
When Your Younger Sister Who Lives Rent And Bill Free, With A Job, Wants You To Pay To See Her
Sister Asks Me If I Can Watch Her Kid, Then Asks If I Can Come Get Her And Comes Up With Lame Excuse As To Why She Can't Drop Her Off.
My Girlfriend And I Started Making Furniture To Pay For College, And My Sister Sent Me This Gem
Bratty Cousin Stole My Netflix Password And When I Changed It He Wants Me To It To Him
Cousin Who Has Owed Me $7k For Over 2 Years Suggests I Work As His Real Estate Agent To Get Paid Back
Tax Season And Cb Sister
Family Discounts
My Ex That I Haven’t Talked To In 6 Months Had To Audacity To Ask To Renew My Netflix Account So She Can Use It
Ungrateful Man Shames His Wife On A Public Forum Because The Dinner She Cooked Him Wasn't To His Liking.
Well he can obviously get up and cook his own damn dinner and shut the hell up.
My Sister Wants Me And My Brother To Help Pay For Her And Her Kids To Swim At My Late Father's Pool
If they don't use the pool then why is she asking for it to be opened for her and her family? Idiot.
My Sweet Little Brother Who Begs Me For Money Every Day. He Is 30 And Married And Doesn’t Talk To Me About Anything But Borrowing Money Or Getting Handouts Or Asking If He Can Come For Dinner. The Vm After Was “What Kind Of Sister Let’s Their Brother Go Hungry?” Um, This One
You Don't Need Enemies If You Have Such A Family
At Their Own Mother...
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I need to stop reading these kind of posts. If I wanted to get angry I would still use Facebook.
Long story short. Our infant dies. My husband is openly expressing his want for his father to help dig the grave (family plot on a mountain here in tn usa) his dad goes about telling him how he has to fix his heater core in his truck. My dad is in Florida and can't make it till the day of the burriel or he would of been there. My husband is devastated. My mil shows up to help him dig the grave. While I'm attending to organizing all the damn flowers and songs and family cause it's my baby I just birthed that died. My dad comes up on the day of the burial and esentually it's me and my husband and my dad covering up the grave. His dad won't even look at him. Two days later my husband quits working with him cause my husband has been clean and sober for 6 years and he is screaming at him on the work site infront of the home owner how he shouldn't go back to being a needle junkie. I lost my s**t. We don't talk to them anymore.
My partner's father was absent for the majority of his life. I didn't even meet him for the first 8 years of us dating. A couple of years ago he was made redundant from his job and received hundreds of thousands of $$$ as a payout. He wasted it all in a matter of months gambling. This year my partner's sister had a baby and the father wanted to come to visit for Christmas to see the baby (the father moved to another state after he left my partner's mother 31 years ago). My partner being a nice person offered for him to stay with us since he now has no money to pay for a hotel. The entire time he was here he did not clean up after himself, would leave dirty dishes on the counter and did not contribute towards any food in the house. He ate everything in our fridge and pantry including several boxes of chocolate my partner received as Christmas presents from his students. And then proceeded to try con my partner into buying him weed. I hope he never comes back.
This triggered me so much after this last week. My parents took us on vacation and my brother’s family didn’t intend on spending any money. I had already paid for excursions for my family. My parents wanted my nieces to do an excursion so they paid for one for my brothers family after having said that was on us to pay for any extras beyond the flight and resort. My bf and I got sick and couldn’t go on an excursion with my son. I asked them to take him and they said yes, but backed out bc my brother was supposed to go on an excursion with my dad (my dad paid for). Then they canceled it and instead of taking my son, they rented a cabana and babysat my nieces all day. Then they didn’t even care to say goodbye to us before we left for the airport. I see how me and my family rate compared to my brother and his.
I made it about halfway through this and go so pissed it stopped. Maybe BP can have a separate site for negative asshole posts. No one needs to read this s**t.
Funny how you clicked on a link to a thread about a special place in hell for entitled relatives but yet you're upset that there's posts about assholes and then proceed to say how you didn't read most of it. This is a free site and no one is forcing you to click on these links....
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What is with all the Netflix drama? It cost about $10 a month. Get it yourself.
sure the food in number 30 does look really bland, but if it bothers them so much they could just put some gravy on it
I feel like a good chunk of these type of posts are made up/exaggerated to get people attention on the internet.
I have known people this entitled, I can assure you that if these stories are indeed exaggerated, they still are a sadly accurate reflection of human greed and lack of empathy/self-awareness :(
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Can someone please tell me what CB means? Cannot find its meaning anywhere except for c**k block ha ha!
Don't live near family. Had one uncle who was a self centred d**k. Came in to a gathering with my Aunt (who was really nice, always seems the way?) Sat down and told my sister to 'get off her ass and get them a drink'. Wish I had been there for her " You have two legs and a f*****g pulse. Get it yourself." reply.
that one about the sister supposedly not paying after they took the kids to the zoo? Absolutely fake. That happened in the UK between a babysitter and the family that hired her.
Yeah and the babysitter's sister is the one who posted it.
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The title says these entitled relatives deserve a special place in hell. Granted, I didn't read every entry carefully, but in my estimation, these people acted rude but don't deserve eternal agony for asking for free stuff.
I need to stop reading these kind of posts. If I wanted to get angry I would still use Facebook.
Long story short. Our infant dies. My husband is openly expressing his want for his father to help dig the grave (family plot on a mountain here in tn usa) his dad goes about telling him how he has to fix his heater core in his truck. My dad is in Florida and can't make it till the day of the burriel or he would of been there. My husband is devastated. My mil shows up to help him dig the grave. While I'm attending to organizing all the damn flowers and songs and family cause it's my baby I just birthed that died. My dad comes up on the day of the burial and esentually it's me and my husband and my dad covering up the grave. His dad won't even look at him. Two days later my husband quits working with him cause my husband has been clean and sober for 6 years and he is screaming at him on the work site infront of the home owner how he shouldn't go back to being a needle junkie. I lost my s**t. We don't talk to them anymore.
My partner's father was absent for the majority of his life. I didn't even meet him for the first 8 years of us dating. A couple of years ago he was made redundant from his job and received hundreds of thousands of $$$ as a payout. He wasted it all in a matter of months gambling. This year my partner's sister had a baby and the father wanted to come to visit for Christmas to see the baby (the father moved to another state after he left my partner's mother 31 years ago). My partner being a nice person offered for him to stay with us since he now has no money to pay for a hotel. The entire time he was here he did not clean up after himself, would leave dirty dishes on the counter and did not contribute towards any food in the house. He ate everything in our fridge and pantry including several boxes of chocolate my partner received as Christmas presents from his students. And then proceeded to try con my partner into buying him weed. I hope he never comes back.
This triggered me so much after this last week. My parents took us on vacation and my brother’s family didn’t intend on spending any money. I had already paid for excursions for my family. My parents wanted my nieces to do an excursion so they paid for one for my brothers family after having said that was on us to pay for any extras beyond the flight and resort. My bf and I got sick and couldn’t go on an excursion with my son. I asked them to take him and they said yes, but backed out bc my brother was supposed to go on an excursion with my dad (my dad paid for). Then they canceled it and instead of taking my son, they rented a cabana and babysat my nieces all day. Then they didn’t even care to say goodbye to us before we left for the airport. I see how me and my family rate compared to my brother and his.
I made it about halfway through this and go so pissed it stopped. Maybe BP can have a separate site for negative asshole posts. No one needs to read this s**t.
Funny how you clicked on a link to a thread about a special place in hell for entitled relatives but yet you're upset that there's posts about assholes and then proceed to say how you didn't read most of it. This is a free site and no one is forcing you to click on these links....
Load More Replies... What is with all the Netflix drama? It cost about $10 a month. Get it yourself.
sure the food in number 30 does look really bland, but if it bothers them so much they could just put some gravy on it
I feel like a good chunk of these type of posts are made up/exaggerated to get people attention on the internet.
I have known people this entitled, I can assure you that if these stories are indeed exaggerated, they still are a sadly accurate reflection of human greed and lack of empathy/self-awareness :(
Load More Replies... Can someone please tell me what CB means? Cannot find its meaning anywhere except for c**k block ha ha!
Don't live near family. Had one uncle who was a self centred d**k. Came in to a gathering with my Aunt (who was really nice, always seems the way?) Sat down and told my sister to 'get off her ass and get them a drink'. Wish I had been there for her " You have two legs and a f*****g pulse. Get it yourself." reply.
that one about the sister supposedly not paying after they took the kids to the zoo? Absolutely fake. That happened in the UK between a babysitter and the family that hired her.
Yeah and the babysitter's sister is the one who posted it.
Load More Replies... The title says these entitled relatives deserve a special place in hell. Granted, I didn't read every entry carefully, but in my estimation, these people acted rude but don't deserve eternal agony for asking for free stuff.
