I'm royally pissed.

I've been married to Hubby for 26 years. During that time my side of the family has cost us zilch, zero, nada! Well .... zilch, zero, nado other than freakin' emotional heart ache. Seriously we have made out financially from my side of the family.

In fact, my side of the family has contributed to our coffers in ways we never expected, and could never pay back.

Hubby's side of the family has been nothing but a finacial burden to us. His dad died and we were left with a Grandma as inheritance. Fortunately she had enough to live on to sustain her to the end. Of course, how can anyone know how long is the end. She was a German money monger, and any way she could get something for free, she got it. I cannot name the ways we spent our own money on her to keep her going.

Hubby's mom just died. I started to wonder how her father, hubby's grandpa, was holding up finacially. Hubby went over to visit grandpa today because it is Father's Day. Grampa is buying upwards of $300 per month on scratch off lottery tickets. Hubby just called and informed me he has to give grandpa and his wife $300 of OUR money to help them make it through the month!

I'm thinking WHAT?

Seriously.... WHAT? No... I mean WTF WHAT!

$300 of our money just blew away. Ba Buy! I guess in some respects it is nice to know we have $300 we can just blow away. Hell NO! This is the time of our lives. This is when we are saving for retirement. The kids are grown up and gone. Almost gone. Good bye! Go .... fly away little birdies. Go away.

Now we are strapped with 90 year old WWII veteran grampa? How the fuck did this happen? We seem to constantly get stuck with grandparents! Most people get stuck with parents! We get stuck with Grandparents! Why is this our lot in life?

I'm just a little off kilter and wondering how in hell this happened to us!

It isn't enough that hubby's mom just passed away too sudden for words, way before her prime. We have to deal with that grief and then this shit?

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. And fuck again!

Wow, I feel better now. NOT.