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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel sympathetic to the MIL after reading the initial post a couple of times.

Try reading it playing Devil's Advocate.

So, I agree that the MIL's behavior wasn't great at the end but go back to the beginning...her behavior wasn't great after she was pressed but, from what I read in the original post, she seemed to hold it together [u]until[/u] she was pressed.  Yes, she was mopey but she wasn't being a drama queen until she started getting hit with "What's wrong?", "No, really, we can see you're upset, what's wrong?", and then probably getting "MIL, really, we can see you're unhappy, tell us what's wrong", probably with a bit of attitude.  So she finally says what's wrong and OP and her mom blow it off with "well, we spent the day together, [i]of course [/i] (you silly goose) we drove together", which really drives the point home that she was being excluded by the secret club.  Then when she becomes emotional she gets a lot of push-back because she is engaging in drama.

Anyway, reading the post it certainly seems like the drama was sort of thrust on her in a mean-girl kind of way...[/quote]

No. She is not entitled to being upset in the first place, let alone cry after being asked what was wrong. Nothing should be wrong.
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Why can't she feel upset when she has been excluded?[/quote]
Excluded from what? The car ride over to the school?

A mother/daughter afternoon?

So now sons and daughters can't do anything at all with their parents and not include the inlaws? If a man goes to a baseball game with his dad, is he required to invite his FIL? Why? [/quote]

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