Today, I disowned my fundamentalist christian uncle.

[Bob Kelso]

Oy, and I thought the Catholics and Southern Baptists in my family were bad. You are completely right to cut this troglodyte out of your life, sounds like it was long overdue. The saying "Blood is thicker than water" is a load of bollocks, you can't pick your family and family isn't always good for you and a person is totally within their rights to cut the douchebags of the bunch out of their life.

My Aunt is the same in some areas, minus the drinking, she's homophobic and holier-than-thou even though she's been living off my grandparents for 25+ years of her 34 year old life. My grandmother passed away, and she had my grandfather move in with her, her husband and her four meal-tickets, er, I mean foster children under the guise of taking care of him. Every time I've been over there she's had him taking care of kids and loaning them money, and she's always hitting up my parents for cash as well and trying to comment on my life to boot like she's better than me. I'm a 23 year old single father who has his own place, job and has gone back to college whereas she is a 34 year old foster mom who's only recently moved out of mummy and daddy's house after sucking them bone-dry monetarily who still can't manage to take care of her shit. She doesn't respect the boundaries that I have set for everyone in the family who interacts with my kid, no proselytizing or bible teaching of any sort, and constantly tries to get my soon-to-be three year old to "come to Jesus". Needless to say other than occasional family events I never speak to her, and don't let my kid interact with her.