I'm going to try and make this as short as possible... it shall be challenging
Point 1: I am not close with my father's side of the family, especially since he passed away. Honestly, the majority of them are just not very nice people, with exception of a few cousins and one aunt and uncle. One of my aunts has had no contact with me or my sister since my father died. She flipped out when my mother changed her name back to her maiden name, 4 YEARS AFTER HE DIED. After that, she wanted nothing to do with any of us, and has been particularly nasty to my mother, even going as far to say that she wished she had died instead of her brother. Flash forward to now. I invited them to the wedding, because if I didn't, I wouldn't hear the end of it from my paternal grandmother. They declined to come, relief for me.
Point 2: My mother is an alcoholic, what you would call a "functioning" one, but one none the less, and has sought no desire to get help, so we just deal with it and support her the best we can. A week ago, I had this crazy dream that the aunt in question above phoned me and raged at me for not paying for her hotel room for the wedding, then called my grandmother who called me; honestly the whole dream was messed up, because as a big of a B that my aunt is, she's not that forward... not to mention that everything was in greyscale and people were riding hippogriffs... I was over at my mother's house with FI last week and told her about this dream. I began the conversation with "I had this dream...". Unfortunately, she was into more than a few glasses of wine, and for whatever reason, she didn't hear that I said it was dream, or chose not to.
She phoned my other aunt(who is married to my father's brother) and told her about it, as if it had actually happened, and wasn't a dream like I said it was. That aunt then phoned her daughter, my cousin, and told her about it, who then told the aunt in question, who promptly flipped the eff out (understandably), and sent me, my mother, and every single person on her side of the family an email directed to me, telling me off for spreading malicious lies about her. Now I'm getting non stop phone calls from EVERYONE asking me what the eff is going on.
*Bangs head on table repeatedly*... I have no idea what the hell to do. My mother still thinks it's a true story, and I can't bring myself to say "No Mom, I told you it was a dream... but you forgot that because you were half into a 40 of wine", or something of that effect. And I'm scared to email my aunt back and set everyone straight and have everyone from that side of the family talking about how my mom is a drinker, and it getting back to her and her getting upset with me (she absolutely does not admit she has a problem, any time we mention it, it ends in a fight). Does anyone have a suggestion? And does it involve moving to Guam? Yes? No? Bueller?
