I doubt that anyone will read this because there are no previous active topics listed in the forum. Anyways, I am ashamed for feeling this way, but I don't like my grandma. We have no relationship. The only similarity between us is our blood. She is my dad's mother. You probably wonder why I feel such animosity towards a relative. Well, as I mentioned before, she's my dad's mother. So why is it that my mother spends all day with her, feeding her, giving her medicine, changing her clothes, giving her a bath when it's not even her own mom. Yes, my dad works full time, 7am-5pm. But I fail to hear a conversation between him and his mother...it only occurs once every two weeks. My grandma started living with my family 2 years ago. She borrowed my sister's room. My sister now has to share a room with me and I'm 18 years old. Don't I deserve some privacy? My parents obviously think I can manage. But that's not the real problem. The real problem is that she is here. I get frustrated and annoyed when I'm watching tv and I hear her a few feet away, breathing (she has emphezema because she used to work in a salon and smoke, but she wasn't a chain smoker). It feels like my whole atmosphere is being disturbed by her presence. She usually complains that she's hungry when she in fact had dinner 2 hours earlier. This goes on daily...it never stops. My family minus grandma went into counseling one time. It didn't help. I couldn't just spill out my feelings in front of a stranger. My mom cried during the session... I almost joined in to, but I held it back. I think my dad's choice of bringing my grandma into the family was wrong...completely wrong. It has taken away a part of me and my sister's childhood. I feel completely distorted.