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August 29th, 2008

Embarrassing Families

Sometimes we find ourselves in situations with family where we become the subject of the day’s embarrassment. Fortunately, my family’s not been too harsh on me ever, but I remember a Thanksgiving at an ex-boyfriend’s house once that mortified me for his sister.

She’d gone through some really major issues with her marriage and divorce, and had been awarded a very large sum of money in divorce court. The first issue is that the family thinks she could’ve gotten more had she done things differently, but the bottom line is that she blew through every penny in no time, and then found herself in a really bad situation with income tax and debt she couldn’t pay. This had happened a while before, so the very thought that it was being brought up at that particular moment made little sense to me, but there I sat, the only “outsider” to the family, watching this woman get mangled over her poor choices by the people who you’d normally think would’ve been her biggest supporters. Read More

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August 28th, 2008

Tales From The Web: Mom was sick.

I’m going to be hunting out tales from around the internet to post here. They’re all anonymous and if you’re interested in sharing your dysfunctional stories, check out the end of the post.

My hope is that this might help people realize that there are others out there going through things that are far worse than their own problems (or in fact, equal, and they’re not alone).

[…] OK here is my disfunctional (sic) family tree…
**Had a mother that allowed my father to sexually abuse me for 10 years and claims she didn’t know. OK How do you NOT know when ther (sic) Father was picked up (but not arrested) on molestation charges before I was born and then SHE made me sleep with him in their bed while she got blasted on Valume (sic) and hid in the extra bedroom.
** She called me the other woman and blamed me for the divorce
** When I had a boyfriend she would have me dress in sexy nightgowns and go sleep with them.
** I smoke weed with my oldest daughter (she is 28)
** My sister (she is my father’s off spring not my mother’s) sleeps with her brother.
** My uncle tried to kill us all over the estate of my mother
** I have siblings I have never met […]

If you’d like to ask for advice or share a dysfunctional story, send an email to me at lara.kulpa@b5media.com. Again, I guarantee you strict confidence and security here, so just let go of the fact that your brother used to make your Barbies do dirty things and drop me a line!

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August 23rd, 2008

Dysfunctional Parenting (or lack thereof): Casey Anthony

What much can be said about Casey Anthony, and the disappearance of little Caylee Anthony?

• The mother, Casey, while in jail seemed more concerned with getting her boyfriend’s phone number than talking to her family about the case or what was going on with anything. See “A big fat waste of time.”
• There’s no trace of this so-called “nanny”.
• Casey barely has shed a tear in court, on the phone, in the media, to detectives…
• and she was purportedly out partying only 2 nights after Caylee’s disappearance was reported by the girl’s grandmother, Casey’s mother, Cindy.
• So far since the investigation started back in July, there are at least 4 or 5 men who have been mentioned in terms of a “relationship” of sorts with Casey Anthony. A couple ex-fiancees, an ex-boyfriend or two, a current boyfriend (who wasn’t the first boyfriend mentioned when she was in jail on the phone)… where’s Caylee’s father? WHO is Caylee’s father? Does anyone know? Does HE know? Could she have handed Caylee off to him? I don’t get this…

I’ll be the first one to sympathize with the parents of a missing child, but damn, she didn’t even report her missing, and the grandmother wound up doing it. I mean, the second I didn’t know where my child was, the split-second I couldn’t talk to her on a moment’s notice had I left her with “someone”, the first thing I’d do is run to the police. But no, not Casey Anthony. Nope. So why?!

It’s also been said that Casey’s relationship with her parents has been quite strained. Supposedly, she went to her parents when she found out she was pregnant with little Caylee, and they took her in, supported her, paid the medical bills, helped raise Caylee… but then all of the sudden, around the same time as Caylee’s disappearance, Casey is accused of racking up her parents’ credit card, moving out to live with an ex-boyfriend and another friend, and stealing gasoline cans from the parents’ garage.

This is more and more looking like a situation where Casey wasn’t ready to “give up her freedom” to a child, and it’s taken her this long to figure out how to handle that situation… and she totally picked the wrong choice.

What do you think?

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August 20th, 2008

Finally, Kinsanity is here!

Hi all, apparently it’s been a long time coming, but Kinsanity.com is finally officially up and running.

My name is Lara, and I want to take the readers here on a snarky, humorous ride through the world of family dysfunction.

Whaaaa-t?

Yes, you read that right. I’m going to rip apart the world of dysfunctional families to see the funny side of the stories. The world is full of dramatic situations, and let’s face it, NO FAMILY IS PERFECT. We’ve all got crazy relatives, family members we’d really rather not ever run into, and funny uncles who speak with “no filter” at the holiday dinner table. Why take it so serious?

On top of that, I’d like to offer up a place where you can anonymously ask for advice. My advice, and the advice of fellow readers, on how to handle a particular situation you might be facing in your family. I assure you that all identifying information, including even your general location, will be kept strictly confidential. I won’t even put your city and state or anything like that. But while I want to take a lighthearted look at some of the “insanity” in families, I also don’t want to diminish the necessity for really getting some good, outsider’s advice sometimes. Don’t ever underestimate the value behind a stranger’s interpretation of your situation, with or without a doctorate to support their advice, okay?

If you’d like to ask for advice or share a dysfunctional story, send an email to me at lara.kulpa@b5media.com. Again, I guarantee you strict confidence and security here, so just let it rip like your Uncle Barry did at your wedding and drop me a line!

So let’s work on all of this together, shall we? Let’s learn to not take things so seriously when it comes to family issues, and let’s learn to deal with problems objectively and fairly. Personally, I love the idea, but then again, I’m the blogger here.

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