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[quote=Anonymous]My son is getting baptized next month and I'm dreading interacting with her. She is a very "old"
70 year old: doesn't have a cell phone or email, I call her by her formal last name as she said requested of me and my brother in law, she is very opinionated (cards need to be addressed to Mrs. Husbands last name rather than a female's name, refers to me as Mrs. Even though I'm a doctor, insists on us using her family things even though I had a dress made out of my wedding dress and my family also has a christening gown, criticizes how we are renovating our 100 year old house). She is also extremely racist and classist. She is very wealthy and was a SAHM, had a full time nanny and domestic help, a night nurse for six weeks with both children so she criticizes me wanting to spend a lot of time with my kids, working full time (makes comments that my husband and I could stay at home if we didn't do X). She also takes on huge projects at our house and doesn't complete them, takes over our living room with needlework projects and keeps the bathroom a mess to the point my parents and brother are staying at a hotel. I'm about as green as you come with recycling, cloth diapers , etc. and she will make comments about us using things she doesn't a include as green.

My parents have really only met her at our wedding but they talk frequently by phone. My dad thinks she is the worst. My parents do not have the dominant personality she has and she ruled the conversation and tried to take over. I'm sick of listening to her talk about the civil war and refer to me and my family as Yankees and I won't even tell you what she refers to people of color. She is an educated woman who has traveled extensively abroad but so closed minded. I'm afraid she will offend family and guests and reflect poorly on us. Her husband is a wet blanket so no use intervening through him. She gets her way. My husbands friends families despise her and despite having social status she is not popular but thinks she is and also thinks that we are best friends.

I asked my husband to request that everyone stay at a hotel and she told me I was rude. My own parents and siblings are also staying at a hotel. She criticized our baptism invites as I used informal wording. ( first names rather than Mr. And Mrs.) as we are having an informal party after the ceremony.

Besides drinking heavily, how do I deal with this woman? It's causing me so much anxiety. She us very hands off with all her grandchildren probably because she was raised by a nanny. [/quote]

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