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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thank you for the advice everyone. Basically, we were all out in a shopping mall together, and she took grandchild (age 7) into one store while I was in another.  She then left grandchild alone in the store while she went elsewhere to shop, without telling the child that she was leaving.  It terrified me when I found my MIL without child and she didn't know exactly where our child was.  And, of course, it terrified my child when she realized she was alone and didn't know where any adults were.  It also set into action a chain of events with store security, etc.  MIL will not apologize - first she claimed she asked the child to come with her and the child refused (a lie, and even if it was the truth, then don't leave the store until the child is with you!) and then she changed her story to that the child didn't tell her that she wasn't allowed to be left alone in a store. In fact, in MIL's version of events, she "saved her grandchild's life" b/c she is the one who ultimately remembered what store she had left the child in (which is where child still was when we reunited).  This all happened over the course of only 15 min, btw - but it was a scary 15 min!  Anyway ... what MIL did is neither here nor there on some level b/c both my DH and I feel it was very wrong and we can never trust her alone with our children again - mainly I am just trying to figure out how to "be" around her when I am still so so angry.[/quote]

WOW...that is OUTRAGEOUS.  I would be so furious and I cannot believe she is taking this position, although she might be feeling very defensive about it and this is how she reacts when her back is against the wall.  When is this visit over?[/quote]

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