I never liked my grandma. is it normal to feel this way?

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Ever since I was a little girl my grandma would always find something about me to criticize. The main thing she would criticize about me was my weight. I was chubby growing up. I wouldn't have been so annoyed if she didn't nag me about it every time she saw me. She would constantly tell me I'm fat and compare me to my other cousins saying that I had to look like them. She would also complain about how I walked even though she knew I had short tendons in my legs which caused me to walk improperly. Nothing I did ever seemed to please her. For example, We were having Christmas dinner and I wanted another piece of steak. She complained about how I was eating to much food. To shut her up, I left a little piece on my plate. She then complained about how I was wasting food. I lost the weight a few years later. She tried to get me to eat more. Instead of complaining about me being fat, she starts complaining about my cousin being too skinny and constantly nags her about gaining weight. She is really skinny but not under weight and not in danger of health problems. That's just how her body is. My grandma would also tell me how to live my life and nag me if I disagreed. She said I was going to get married and have kids. I told her that I never wanted to get married or have children and that I wanted to be independent and have a career. She told me that I didn't know what I was talking about and that I needed marriage and children to be happy. Whenever I showed signs of being upset with her she just laughed in my face. No matter how much I wanted to tell her off, I kept calm and always treated her with respect. No one in the family knew that I disliked her. Every year I wondered why my grandma wasn't dead yet. It finally happened this year. A week after my 16th birthday she died of a heart attack. My whole family was sad and some were in tears. But not me. I couldn't help but feel relieved and a bit joyful. I hid my emotions so no one would know that I was hiding a smirk. Is it normal to feel this way?

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  • Parky_Parker
    9 years ago

    I don't want to sound fucked up, but yes, I find that normal in that certain situation.

    My grandma likes to use people for their money. If I were to visit her and not give her money, she'd get really butthurt. Therefore, I don't visit her. It is what it is. Not all elderly people are wise and kind.

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  • NotHumanAtAll
    9 years ago

    Yeah in your case, totally normal.

    I would even feel regret for not telling her what a bitch she was and how much I don't like her before she died.

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    • Kami-Sama
      9 years ago

      I know but my father would have killed me. He loved my grandma very much and I knew it would upset him if I disrespected the woman that gave birth to him. According to my family "grandmas are always right".

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      • wistfulmaiden
        9 years ago

        sorry to hear that, she had your dad brainwashed.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    I would be happy if I were you your grandma desperately needed a life. I find it ubsurd how old people whos life are cable and lawn maintainence criticize people and tell them how to live. I dont mean to be a dick but congrats a peice of junk left our earth.

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3emgl_celebration-kool-and-the-gang_music

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    • Kami-Sama
      9 years ago

      Thanks. The song fits perfectly. :D

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      • [Old Memory]
        9 years ago

        No problem enjoy! I wonder what you're birthday wish was. ;)

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  • green_boogers
    9 years ago

    My grandmother was a narcissistic bully. When she was around, I felt like I was living in a witch's house. Yuck!

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  • cuppycake1228
    9 years ago

    Absolutely. You clearly have good reason. Just because she gave birth to one of your parents, does not automatically justify her harmful treatment of you. It's hard to accept negative feelings toward a family member, but they can be assholes just like the rest of the world.

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  • wistfulmaiden
    9 years ago

    I can relate, though my grandmother wasn't as bad as yours, I disliked her also. She was very phony and always trying to get my to act and look a certain way, she made fun of my mom and I later found out that she had been lying to her friends for years saying that she never had any kids! (She abandoned my dad and his sis when they were young but later came back into their lives). At some point she asked me to tell her friends that I was just some random child she helped for charity...and I stopped talking to her. Bad enough she gave my dad all these mental issues and she wanted me to lie for her to cover her sorry ass.

    Im sorry your grandma was such a bitch. Yes its normal not to like her at all. Too bad your parents allowed her to treat you that way if my kids grandparents ever said anything belittling to him Id knock them on their ass.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    So I'm not the only one with a really critical grandmother? Don't get me wrong, I love my grandmother to bits. She did everything for me when I was small and my mother had to work. She babysat me in the day time, teach me how to cook and make me laugh. However, the older I got the more critical she got, especially about my appearance. When I was 12 I dyed my hair black, and she kept nagging, in a sort of nice way though, for me to let my natural blonde grow back out. It never happened ofcourse. When I was 14 I started getting tattoos and piercings and she was surprisingly supportive of that, but didn't like the fact that I had my bangs hanging in my face and would always push my hair back when she came near me and that really chapped my ass. Also, she would compare me to my cousin who's my age, saying she's so beautiful and does modelling and I should look like her. I didn't take it seriously because my cousin is an illiterate, freckled ginger who has a baby and has more abortions than she can count on one hand so I know I'm better, nomatter how attractive some people think her freckled face and steelwool hair is. Now that I'm older and don't live with my mother and grandmother anymore though, I see that all she wanted was for me to be what she considered normal, so I feel bad for getting upset at her for all the things she did and said. I guess the older you get, the more tolerant you get.

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