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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not rude. She doesn't get it and she really should have. [b]I certainly wouldn't have pitched a fit if my sister-in-law had posed with her own mother and daughter[/b][b]. Maybe she deleted her post because she finally realized what the picture was and that her request was pouty and out of line.

Now that you know she may not understand how generations work in the family, you can respond with a simple "next time I'll give you a call when we're taking a picture" and then just let it go.[/quote]

But it wasn't SIL who posted. It was the grandmother, who posted a picture with one of her grand-daughters, but not the other. The favoritism is obvious and OP is refusing to own it. [/quote]

And DIL didn't pitch a fit.  She said that she wished her daughter was in the picture.  Which doesn't seem at all out of line.  Sure, there are perfectly valid reasons to take the photo that OP posted, but it's also not crazy to wish that a photo of the female generations included all of the female grandchildren.  I've actually seen those photos done so that they are all the direct descendants of the oldest woman in the photo--in this case, OP's mother--in which case, all the granddaughters would be included.

And it's just ungracious as hell to respond to that sentiment the way OP did.  Saying you would have loved to have little Larla in the photos, too, and you're looking forward to getting some new photos with her the next time you see her would have cost OP nothing, and would have helped build a bridge to the DIL, not a wall. [/quote]

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