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[quote=Anonymous]When my bipolar FIL was alive, I fulfilled what I perceived to be my social obligations: we did not visit often, but during visits, I listened to all his nonsense patiently, smiled and behaved like the docile DIL his conservative upbringing thought I should be. It brightened his otherwise difficult last days. Now my MIL is quite frail, again, we don't visit often, but when we do, I sit next to her and listen to all her many and perfectly legitimate complaints. It's the least I can do. The key is distance and infrequency of visits. I can be the person they want me to be for a few hours on occasion. It wouldn't work if I had to do this regularly, so I certainly feel for all of you if you live near obstreperous family members! [/quote]
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