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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing personal OP but I think of this as one of those things I might have felt strongly about when I was young and had no   REAL problems to worry about. Like when my SIL gave me a huge, expensive and (IMHO) ugly painting for a wedding gift, I remember being terribly annoyed. Now I think, well, we have different tastes, but who gives a shit?

None of my kids' grandparents ever got them particularly welcome gifts. But now they are all dead, or have severe dementia or other health issues. Even if they weren't the most wonderful people in the world, it's still sad that they don't get the joy of having grandchildren anymore and that my kids don't have that relationship themselves. Someday OP you'll look back and hate yourself a little for having spent 10 seconds caring about whether your MIL's Xmas comforter was tacky.[/quote]

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Someone always does this in a vent thread. YES, OP KNOWS she is over-reacting and this is all meaningless and petty at the end of the day. That's why to deal with her feelings, she's posting to an anonymous online forum instead of doing something inappropriate IRL like being rude to her MIL about it. People just need to vent a little sometimes, you know? It's not that they don't realize that someday everyone will die, this stuff isn't actually a big deal, blah blah blah. But we still all have feelings/reactions on a daily basis, and we need to process those feelings and reactions in order to move forward.[/quote]

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