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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many weeks have you been in your new place? Is she not helpful? I think it'd be better to let her come visit and watch DD while you do all these chores and settling in. Seems a little cruel to reject your mama.[/quote]

Don't listen to this idiot.

I find a simple, "I'm sorry you feel that way" and then moving on to discussing something else shuts this kind of thing down well with my mother.[/quote]

She doesn't sound like an idiot to me. Just like someone who doesn't have such a contentious (dare I say dramatic) relationship with her parents. If you are in a position of always having to "shut things down" you are going to read this a different way than someone without experiences like that.[/quote]

The "idiot" part was in response to the last sentence, which was needlessly guilt-inducing and dramatic. And contentious does not have to equal dramatic. It becomes dramatic when you go on their trip and get all worked up about it. Simply heading off inappropriate behavior and calmly declining to engage is pretty much the opposite of dramatic.[/quote]

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