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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In fact, I can't believe why you wouldn't have [b]offered years ago to bring a few things to contribute[/b] to the dinner and why nobody else in the family has too?! You're weird, OP. Maybe this is MIL's passive aggressive way of telling everyone that she can't cook for everybody.[/quote]

I agree. OP [b]sounds cheap and obsessed with food[/b].[/quote]

OP here.  I'm not sure where you are getting your incorrect information.  As I stated earlier, we just hosted them for Thanksgiving.  We also invited our friends, to diffuse any tensions.  Thankfully, everyone ate well AND was sent home with leftovers.  Each person brought one dish, which we did not ask them to bring, since it was not their turn to host.  The food that was brought, though put out, was generally not eaten.  It seemed wasteful to me.

As far as Mil, she insists on hosting. Which, if she can not handle it, then 1.) why wouldn't she assign each person what to bring 2.) or stop inviting more and more people or 3.) stop trying to host if she knows she can not handle it.  We offer to bring dishes.   She says no.  So we bring a few dishes anyway.

Honestly, it never occurred to me to ask anyone or expect anyone to bring enough of the main courses.  And it never occurred to me to keep inviting people if there is not enough food to begin with.  It certainly never occurred to me to host something, if I was not capable of hosting.

Mil does have issues with food, because of her upbringing, DH says it has always been this way in his house.  DH says Mil is cheap.  I would never say that, but I have never heard DH say that about anyone.  So if he says that about his own mother, it would have to be true for him to say it.  Thank you for raising some interesting points that I have to consider.  [/quote]Wait, you bring a few dishes anyway and still there's no food for your family? Everyone eats before you except for SIL's family who are always late and you have to wait for them and then the food is cold? With every subsequent post you make OP you contradict what you've said earlier. It took  you several pages to answer a simple timing question. So you're either a troll (and a very confused one at that) or truly nuts. How many pages before you clearly answer this mystery?[/quote]

If it is such a mystery to you, and causing such consternation, clearly you are too easily overwhelmed (like this MIL) and need to move on to another thread.  NOW.

Clearly your toxicity is no more welcome here than at Christmas, PP.

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