Comments on: This Is Going To Sound Really Bad But I Really Need Help With My Family Of Thieves?

By: Catherine D

Catherine D — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:41:51 +0000

i would really listen to your husband and leave anything of importance to you at home. or you can just leave them all at the hotel and not tell your family where you are staying. when you do go see your family bring as little as possible and leave everything else in your hotel or at home. also, make sure your swing pack or what ever you will have on you has a zipper and not one of those bags that only have one button. zippers are hard to get into. and dont let that bad leave your sight. keep it with you no matter what. i hope i helped.

By: Mia W

Mia W — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:41:49 +0000

If your family doesn’t respect you enough to not steal from you, stop going home.

By: Lioness

Lioness — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:41:49 +0000

Wow, how utterly pathetic that you can’t be around your family without them feeling they have a right to steal all your belongings! Stay at a hotel, do not invite them to your room, and take minimal belongings with you when you go to visit them. I know I am not you, but I would never visit my family if they behaved this way. I wish you well.

By: stained glass film

stained glass film — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:41:49 +0000

Put your family in thier place by being respectful and not nameing anyone you “think” may have taken your property…talk to all explain your love for them; as you obiously do have, and let them know/become of aware of the hurt and shame you feel because of thier actions and of the consequences of loseing you as a part of thier life’s. Also remember sometimes people change in time usally for the better.

By: Rapscallion Account #2

Rapscallion Account #2 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:41:48 +0000

This is an easy answer. A great deal of motels have safe’s in the rooms. Leave important things in there, don’t take them to your families house, enough said.
But honestly even though you don’t want to hear it the best thing for you to do is cut ties with your family. I had the same problem as you, came from nothing worked my butt off and actually make a great deal of cash.
Every time i was in contact with family, all i ever heard was the begging. Which really i didn’t have a problem helping family out, but when you help a person catch their mortgage up and they turn around and go out and buy a car with 0 down, when the car they had was in perfect shape, you suddenly realize that helping them was a bad idea. I dealt with my fair share of theft, right down to a sister that stole my check book and wrote over $75,000 in checks (She’s now in jail).
I’ve broke off contact with them, accepted that i don’t really have a family other then the ones that live within my house. And quite frankly, i am quite a bit happier without all the stress and misery that my so called family caused.

By: character building

character building — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:41:48 +0000

You seem to want to believe that maybe this time it will be different. Your husband seems to understand the situation exactly like it is. Be pragmatic, leave everything of value at home.