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[quote=Anonymous]My ILs do this type of thing, especially to cover up things they are insecure/embarrassed about, particularly with respect to my SIL. For example, SIL is almost 40 and not married. She has a great job, lots of friends, etc., but MIL/FIL gloss over that and talk about the fiancé she tragically lost to illness in her 20s. The "fiancé" was a guy she dated semi-seriously got 6-8 months before he got leukemia. It is possible he might've been "the one" but there was never any engagement to speak of. I feel so badly for SIL that they keep rehashing that old experience instead of focusing on her many accomplishments.

I have no real solutions. I have called out MIL when she's done similar things to DH and she just denies, denies, denies. I think she really believes the stories she has fabricated. She doesn't exactly ask us to collude with her, she just tells us we are wrong if we correct her. So I have stopped trying - it's not worth the argument. DH will still sometimes fight it. FIL is her co-conspirator by virtue of his silence.[/quote]

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