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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the reply. I realized I didn't provide the rest of details....

She did come that day. She was fine. She and my sibling stayed at my departmental reception for awhile. She brought me a bottle of wine.

[b]Later that day she also gave me a monthly check she gives me for a bill I pay for all of us (they pay most, I pay some, a family plan). She put that check, for the same monthly amount, sealed in an envelope which said "to the graduate" which also really pissed me off. Perhaps I am being too sensitive with that. But, come on...[/b][/quote]

Oh wow. That is pretty sick - putting her standard monthly share in a gift envelope. I would have really wanted to call her on that one, in front of your sibling. (Oh, Mom, did you mean to put your monthly phone plan check in this gift envelope? Or did you mean to put something else in here?) But it's probably better that you didn't give her the satisfaction, since she must have been trying to get a reaction out of you with a stunt like that. To me that's way more shocking than the passive-aggressive melodrama before your ceremony.

She sounds manipulative and mean-spirited and like she gets her jollies being cruel. She really made you work for it re: graduation, then sailed in at the end acting pleasant AFTER she'd had her fun and ruined it for you. (I have a parent who does something similar, at every holiday dinner. Picks fights all day, screams and bangs around, gets everyone angry and tense and upset, then sits down at the dinner table beaming once the work of ruining everyone's holiday is complete.) Avoid her as much as possible. Something is wrong here. I'm sorry, OP.[/quote]

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