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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm getting to the point where this is just getting old and frustrating.

Anytime I visit my inlaws, my mother is calling me to gossip about my visit. She basically wants me to complain about them. When I don't she gets annoyed. I basically just try and change the subject, I really don't want to get into this with her.

The other things she does is try to be the first one to do everything with our DC. On our last visit with the inlaws we went to an amusement park and our DC rode on some bigger rides for the first time.

I shared about this fun time with my Mom, not really thinking about who I was talking with, and endured a tirade about how SHE wanted to be the first to do that with DC and she's mad that I took DC to the park with them. I just changed the subject to other things. I just can't.

This is getting worse and not better. I thought it might calm down as DC got older, but it hasn't.

I kind of just want to call a spade a spade the next time this happens. The other part of me wants to keep being the bigger person and ignoring/not engaging with her about it, but I'm getting sick of it.

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Too many grandparents these days see themselves as excessively important. My mother has tried this crap too. They're acting like 12 year olds. It's insidious behavior. [/quote]

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