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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry to not be clear, this is op: SHE DOES NOT SEE DOCTORS!

Lots of you have great advice.  I really like my MIL and very much want her to have a great relationship with her only grandchild (my child).  I hate when she cancels on me but it hurts me when she cancels on my child.  She does it all the time.  child is 3.5.  I'm lucky that my FIL is, in my child's own words "My favorite".  So even though MIL will flake on my child, FIL will make up for it.

Re: what is pathologized...I am just a little surprised at how the mundane can be pathologized.

I agree with whomever suggested it might be anxiety and depression and because those are both treatable conditions (as is menopause and anemia) I"m frustrated that she lets it all control her rather than living her life.  (she's 59 so pretty young for an MIL around here).

If I didn't like her, I wouldn't care.  She is my child's only grandmother (as mine is bat-shit-certifiable, unquestioningly crazy; hoarder, lives in filth, doesn't work, morbidly obese, paranoid, and activity tries to destroy her children's lives).  I also think that is why MIL makes me so angry. She's a great person and is mostly normal yet I am more intolerant of her (mental) illness b/c I think hers is fixable and know my mom's is not.

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