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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Not sure how this thread went off the rails. I like many of the early suggestions I got. I will be doing lots of errands, playing MIL bingo, and drinking lots of wine this visit. And disengaging. My mistake I think for many years was to try too hard to be the great DIL and then being the one stuck listening to the stories over and over again and the sad laments about dead relatives and hearing about how much the  past was great with her family and how sad holidays are now that her family that she grew up with is fractured and fragmented and not close like they once were. And trying to do new outings and make new memories for her by excessively planning things only to have her not appreciate them. I know now she’s rather sit and lament the past and it doesn’t matter who is listening - so I’ll just try to make sure it’s not me.

Apologies  for the ethic comment. It was not articulated well, and I was typing fast but it was in poor taste and I’m sorry. For the record, what I meant is that I’m Scandinavian and very fair and she’s Italian and quite dark complected. So it bothers her a lot that my kids are fair like me. They do not have dark hair or olive skin or features like her or my partner. That’s is what I meant by that. [/quote]
Wine?
I thought you said you are breastfeeding.[/quote]

Judgy boring gotcha game [/quote]

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