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[quote=Anonymous]Whenever my MIL buys me anything, I write a thank you, and I put it immediately in the trash.  When I pick it up, it makes me feel awful and I can't keep it.  I don't know why.  It's never nice enough to give to good will (once I got a paper bookmark, another time I got an ugly plate, another time I got old flowers).

She's never been outwardly mean to me, so I always feel guilty-guilty-guilty for throwing the stuff away (and I lie to DH about it, wrapping it with other stuff so he doesn't know). Something had always felt wrong about it, though, like she is getting a secret kick out it.

My last birthday present (the paper bookmark) came in a card that read "You are a smart DIL -- you married into my family".  She didn't write happy birthday or sign her name.  She wrote "Thank you for my hand and body creams, and all my soaps from L'Occitane" and then told my husband that she always writes me thank you notes and I never write her them (I always do right away and mail them, but she never gets them!).  In any case, she has never once been mean to me and she always spoils everyone (last year, she and my FIL took my DH and DD to Paris for two weeks -- I couldn't go because I was 9 months pregnant, but she invited me -- she always includes me).

Anyway, I guess I'm an unappreciative DIL.[/quote]

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