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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you all handle this? I'm pretty close to my MIL but she asks questions that aren't her business. For instance: How much does her son make, how much did we sell our house for? How much is the house we are looking at? How much for pretty much anything I have or own? It's frustrating. I have decided to start reversing the tables so she can see how it feels and she always pretends like she knows nothing and can't answer anything. I also feel pretty awkward asking even if I'm only doing it to teach her a lesson. How do I handle such personal questions? [/quote]

My mom is like this.  Sometimes I answer, sometimes I say things like, "We are paid very well" etc.  I'm less worried about house prices, since that's public info and not as personal to me somehow.  These vague answers usually end the immediate conversation (my mom does understand it's rude to ask but can't help her nosiness), though I know she'll ask again in the future.  For my mom, I think one reason she asks is that my aunt is always bragging about my cousins (super tacky stuff like how much cousin's husband's bonus was on a major finance deal he did etc), and she wants to be able to respond in kind.  The funny thing is that those cousins are all in very lucrative finance careers, so it's not like any of us make as much as they do for bragging rights anyway.[/quote]

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