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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm guessing that in your MIL's mind she's just trying to be helpful and feels guilty that she is not hosting (even if she doesn't actually want to be hosting).  Maybe she's just bored sitting around your house and is trying to busy herself.  It doesn't make it less annoying.  I think you just need to keep running interference and not let it get you upset.  It helps me deal with my parents/ILs annoying behaviors to just expect them and decide in advance not to let it bother me.

And since OP is getting some flack I'll add that generally 5pm is when we serve drinks and cheese/crackers too.  That's also how my parents entertain.  My Dad has been known to watch the clock and will have martinis made by 5:01.  [/quote]

I don't agree with this. My mil is like this because she is insanely jealous and insanely controlling. There is no guilt there.

In the past when hosting at my house, if someone complemented something I made, she would insist that I didn't make it. She tried doing exactly what op's mil did in my home but I shut her down. Like op's mil, she is obsessed with controlling everything else. Since I'm not intimidated by her, her nastiness leaks out in other ways. She is the queen of passive aggressive insults. [/quote]

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