Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Some are experts at this.  They seem to have it all, but eff it up thanks to hubris and narcissism.  I am thinking of a cousin of B's; we'll call her "F".  Time to "out" another relative.

This woman put her husband through medical school, had four kids and then decided -- when he became a wealthy surgeon -- that she was "liberated" and left him.  He got on with making money, re-married and she....well, became a pot-smoking n'er do well.  From having it all, F now lives on the subsidized public dime.  Lucky for her, the inept Trudeau is legalizing marijuana, so her habit will now be "medical".  Ya, right.   

That's what I mean by "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory".  Another "defeat snatcher" is B's ex, but you know all about that.  She went from sitting on her a-s as a kept woman in the living room playing bridge to schlepping over a keyboard in a legal sweat shop.  Another "libber", B's ex read 'The Women's Room', declared herself a feminist, told him she no longer wanted to be "Mrs. Marley-Clarke", kicked him to the curb (he moved into the YMCA), collected a lot of money from him, but then had the nerve to keep his unique name?!  I am glad we no longer live in the same city because I was sick of telling people we were not related. 

But back to B's cousin.  If you check it, you'll find that she claims to have been born in London, but she was actually born in Tundla, India.  Why is that something about which to be ashamed?  B and all his cousins, save one, were born in India. 

Where was I?  Oh ya, after driving her all over town a few years ago to fill in all the forms for her various pensions, B received one of the most vicious emails I have ever read -- telling him she had always hated him, denigrating their grandfather, his father and her own, etc., etc., etc.  And this was after we had also taken her to an expensive lunch at The Royal Ottawa Golf Club!

There are some people to whom one has to give a very wide berth.