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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom treats us as the adults we are, and we all have such a great relationship with her. My husband always talks about how spoiled he is to have her as a MIL. She basically loves to drink wine, travel, she has her own life, she isn't counting days between visits, doesn't care about our finances or other household information, etc.

My MIL, however, treats us like children, and wants it to treat her as some sort of matriarch over our family.  Our relationship with her is marked by guilt and expectations and an overload of "family reunions", birthday parties (for each of her adult children and even adult grandchildren with cake and all), and gatherings for every other random occasion or 'day off school' - basically, treating us like children. It's never enough. And if we go a couple weeks without seeing her, she shames us, as if we didn't perform our children duties. She is awful. Fortunately, she has completely pushed my husband away through her grubby behavior, and he's the one who shames her now. [/quote]

12:53 here.  This describes my MIL too. Sometimes everything isn't enough either.  We don't bother playing her game anymore.[/quote]

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