Yesterday Husband got his first taste of family drama for your mama: and meeting the boyfriend of my cousin who can't pick boyfriends

She's young and beautiful though, you gotta give her a break.

Anyway, my newly 19 year old cousin showed up at our house with her newly tatooed boyfriend (he got her name tatooed across his neck, soooo sweet) who is on his way to jail for various offenses (not HARD time, just SOME time, so the story goes). He was tall and quiet and generally tried to be pleasant while meeting my mother (who went on to tell a story about why they sent her to therapy when she was in college) and my father (who talked to him a lot about sports and how he just put up surround sound) and then me (who just said, "well nice to meet you.")

Apparently my cousin was avoiding going home to her parents as she had been told that 1. she would not be able to stay there with "that boy" and 2. absolutely not should she bring him around those parts. But she wanted her parents to meet him (for some reason) and was mulling over just how she was going to do it. Her mother even called to check in with her (she gets more phone calls in the hour she was here then I have gotten the whole time I've LIVED here) and she spoke a lot to my mother about "why, why, why? what do I do?"

I made the obvious suggestion of letting the guy stay at our house, only to have both Husband and my father shoot me some panicked glance that was somehow supposed to mean "hey, he's on his way to JAIL (not HARD time just SOME time) why do we want him to STAY HERE?"

I'm a trusting srot though and would think that he would refrain from any armed robbery/ mass murdering whilst staying at his beloved's Aunt's house... but I guess you never know.

That being said, Husband got his first taste of THE FAMILY who, according to the therapist my cousin was sent to just a few weeks ago (due to her adjustment to a college life) is just a big old "cluster fuck of problems."

Which might be true, but isn't she supposed to figure that out on her own (did anybody else watch Grey's Anatomy last night?! The breakthrough has to come THROUGH TIME)?