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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Family members that have inability to feel joy, also unable to express happiness for anyone, and willfully and intentionally want someone who is experiencing joy to suffer. Depression? Anxiety? Something else? [/quote]

I call this my mother.[/quote]

lol lol SAME! :)[/quote]

Same. My mother can never express happiness for anyone, especially her own children on otherwise joyous occasions.[/quote]

This is my MIL too.  I really think it's a combination of anxiety and depression.  She's so deeply self-conscious that she can't ever express any real affection or praise.  She also has no idea how awful she comes off (it took me a LONG time to realize she didn't really notice was B she was being).  Her "I'm being friendly mode" still normally comes with a dig or a demand.  But yet, she will also cry that no one wants to spend time with her.  I hold her at arm's length because of many years of fair to poor treatment, but now that I am out of the trenches of having little kids I see her a little differently. I don't think she's ever really had a close relationship, she's just been in the same rooms as other people her whole life.  It seems really sad to me now that she's older.[/quote]

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