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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Nastiness" tends to be one of two things: an expression of frustration, or, as you put it, and attempt to exercise power.

But many have personality changes with strokes that leave them "nasty" as well, and your charge had one. But you say they were nasty before the stroke. So, it sounds like you are just dealing with a frustrated person who was awful to begin with and now feels the need to exercise any kind of power they can. Trifecta. Get out of there. [/quote]

+1. Don't put yourself in harms way, OP.  You might be her "safe" person to rage on.  MIL was like this, so I am not 1:1 with her, or she turns into....something truly special......

Can you get a caretaker?[/quote]

Meant to add, in my MIL's case, she absolutely can be nasty in order to exert power.  It could stem from (or have been exacerbated by) how FIL treated her, but I suspect she has always been this way, as DH has shared some remarkable stories from his upbringing, regarding her behaviors. [/quote]

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