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I don't trust my MIL.  Since DH and I got engaged, we have had a difficult relationship.  I feel that the relationship has been so difficult because she resents me because her relationship with her son changed once we started dating.  This I can't understand!  However, she's been trying to make things right with our relationship, but I feel as if she has a motive.  She is a very intrusive, worrisome mother who doesn't want her children to be independent adults.  She feels like everything should still go through her.  However, her son is a very private person who doesn't share much information about his life.  So, I feel that she wants to get close to me so she'll have a window into her son's life, basically to pump me for information.

        Signed - I Don't Trust Her!
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frequent fry her - ButterflyMama, 4 of 4 needed Frequent Fry Her TM. - ButterflyMama, 4 of 4 needed/Posted: 3-FEB-07
Here is the setup.  My soon to be 3 year old DD's birthday and party is 4 and a half weeks away.  I just picked the day to have her party last night!  MIL will not speak to me at all, so I called my SIL to tell her the date so she can plan to have that day off work.  She and MIL live 4 hours away.  MIL was planning to visit the weekend before the party, so I was going to have my DH call tonight and tell her to wait till the next week.  SIL called me back and said that MIL said that she IS NOT coming to her party unless one of us calls and asks her to come personally.  She'll come the week before, but she's not coming to the party.  This woman (if you have read my other stories) hates me (I know, because she's not shy to tell me), and I have no idea why.  I think it is very petty of her to protest her GD's party because we haven't personally invited her yet.  Mind you, this family is by no means formal!  I am trying to be nice because my mom says to "kill her with kindness".  OMG, it is going to kill me first!  Should I call her myself and be kind?  Be rude and not invite her?  Tell her that she can come when she planned because I don't want her to spoil my DD's party?  Or, let my DH, whose apron strings are still attached, call her?

        Signed - PLEASE HELP ME!!!
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Worst gift:  You wouldn't believe what my MIL gave to my 2 children for their high school graduation.  DS got a cheap toy clock and my DD got a stuffed animal.  My mother was appalled, and I was speechless.  MIL has a very strange sense of value, because she was on welfare for a while.  I've known her for 25 years and she always surprises me with cheap, used and POS gifts.  She is a bingo freak, so she has money to gamble somehow.  DH has been embarrassed enough, and he believes that he can't teach an old dog a new trick.  She had worked as a nurse for 30 years and retired about 10 years ago.  Now she is back on welfare again, and still that's not enough.  So, her 3 children have been supporting her financially for the last 7 years.  What the he!!????

        Signed - My MIL Is A Stingy Gambler
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