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[quote=Anonymous]I agree that mom has dug her own hole for herself here, but OP, there's one aspect you don't really get into -- you say in the post that she has "befriended" your ex and has him over to dinner (which makes it sound like more than once). How does HE react? Do you know if she spends these dinners harping on your "friendship" and her assumptions, or maybe being sickly sweet with your ex out of some kind of weird pity based on...nothing that happened?

It's easy for us on DCUM to say, she gets no more grandkid updates from you if she acts this way toward you, but she might be cultivating your ex in order to get her grandkid updates from him. That means she'll have less incentive to come around in her thinking about your friend and you. Just something to consider.

If you and your ex have a decent relationship, clue him in on all this if he isn't already aware of what mom's assuming and why mom -- surely the ex knows she supported the divorce?! -- is suddenly so very nice to him after the fact. It sounds as if she is [i]using[/i] your ex, frankly, both to get your goat by having him over, and to keep up with the grandkids. I do wonder if the ex realizes she might be playing him just to get at you.

Why does he accept her invitations anyway?[/quote]

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