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[quote=Anonymous]So my husband and I both forgot my MIL's birthday at the beginning of the month. We remembered the next morning and called her and emailed her. Neither MIL or FIL have returned any calls for the entire month. They are in their 80s so my husband called them last night and left a message basically saying if you don't call us back within two days, we'll have to call the cops to make sure you're OK (they live in another state.) It turns out they are so steamed that we forgot her birthday that they called to say they have nothing to say to us, ever, and that this was going to be very costly for us, they're disinheriting us.

OK, so we don't care about the money. They clearly think that's going to scare us into begging for forgiveness or something. My main question is how much should either of us try to smooth this over, given that we have a 4 year old daughter? She's not super tight with them because they live out of state, but in slicing us off from any contact with them (which I'm fine with if it was just me - I absolutely loathe my FIL, I only tolerate my MIL) means they are removing themselves from their granddaughter's life. How would you play this? [/quote]

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