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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous].[/quote]

You need to woman up.  You are going to have to gently correct much of this behavior.

You need to open your mouth and say stuff like this:

1.  "I know you like the pink cake that MIL bought, but I made this one for you.  It's homemade and tastes MUCH better."
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PP, you crack me up.  I spent every birthday of my life hoping someone would get me a bakery cake with pink frosting.  No way a homemade cake would ever have tasted better to me.

I agree with the others who think OP needs to get a life.  I can't see what is awful about the MIL.  She might be exhausting, but she seems to be a wonderful grandmother who really loves her grandchild.  [/quote]

Or the MIL is totally insecure and has to make everything about her and buy her grandkids' affection, which OP is rightfully calling out as inappropriate.

[b]I will say, OP, my MIL is somewhat like this but now that my kids are older (8 and 10), they do notice that she doesn't really want to ever do things that they want to do or spend time with them. She still gets them lots of presents but she won't play a board game with them and when we went to a museum she sat on a bench and talked on her phone instead of getting up and looking at stuff, which baffled them. You can sort of buy their affection when they're little (and impressed with things like a bakery cake or a toy in a big box) but eventually the kids can figure out whether she is interested in them as people or not. [/quote][/b]

YES TO THIS.  Kids catch on.  It's easy to buy love with sparkly things when they are little, it loses it's luster as they get older and you don't actually engage with them.  [/quote]

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