MaryKate, your family sounds alot like mine. I'm sorry you have to deal with it. I don't know about you, but knowing how my family acts makes me dread coming home for xmas.
Everyone is always shouting at each other. My mom is miserable with her life and tries to make everyone around her unhappy too. But at least they can usually act nice around company for a few hours. I can't wait to get away. I'm so not staying for a week next Christmas. I'm thinking about 4 days will be more than enough!
My mother went on a huge rant about what shoes I was wearing as I went to go drive through a car wash yesterday, then vacuum out my car. I think I'm old enough where I can decide what shoes I want to wear when I go places! She does and says so many things like that. It drives me crazy. It's constant little critical nitpicky things. And if I get upset I'm "overreacting" or "being disrespectful."
And my grandmother - every time I straighten my hair she says "oh you use to have such beautiful curls....do you think it will ever be curly again?" I've been straightening my hair for 8+ years. And she's always saying my hair would look so much better cut short/pulled back/etc. And she does it in a way where it makes it sound like my hair really bad right now.
Bf and I talked, and we both decided we never want to move back to our home town. Ever. It's a nice city, but the people here are toxic. I can't imagine trying to have a relationship with him and both of our crazy families constantly interfering.
I leave weds. I don't know why I ever said I'd by staying here for a week. I'm so ready to get outta here. My sister and mom wanted to have a party while I was here. Great. Only all the people I was friends with or either gone or I've lost contact with them. So basically I'm having to spend my last few days here running around like a crazy person trying to get ready for a party with a bunch of people I barely know.