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We hosted.  SIL is big on healthy food and complained this holiday was all about meat.  So, I made portobello wellingtons for a main course and lentil and pomegranate and sweet potato and Brussels sprout side dishes.  Dessert was oranges with coconut and pomegranate seeds.

Anyway, SIL pulled the portobellos out of the Wellingtons and announced she’d just eat those because the rest was too rich for her.  We all had the casing and the puréed duxelles.  I felt furious and her husband said later he was so embarrassed.  She made beef Wellington a couple years ago but now she can’t be polite and eat a small portion?

My SIL talks big about healthy food but is a size 12.  It’s more like she expects everyone else to make her healthy.  I just don’t get it.

THEN today, we got a text from SIL’s brother who we are friends with but haven’t seen in forever because he lives in CA, saying that he’s sorry to hear our daughter is autistic.   Our daughter isn’t autistic or special needs in any way.  (On the other hand, SIL’s middle son is schizophrenic.)  Why would SIL go around spreading likes about a child???

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She sounds really awful, but so do you — acting as if her being a size 12 and having a schizophrenic son are her dirty secrets that make you superior.  Why don’t you stop having Thanksgiving with her, when you obviously don’t like each other?[/quote]

Our husbands are brothers and they are very close.

I don’t think I’m superior because she’s a size 12.  I’m actually a 14 but I don’t put up a fuss about what people serve me when I’m a guest.  I didn’t when I had an eating disorder and wore a size 2.

I definitely don’t think I’m superior because her son is schizophrenic - but I am surprised that with her background she would use something like autism to spread a harmful rumor.

[b]I don’t appreciate you calling me awful, PP.  Not nice.[/b]

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DP. You know what's not nice? Posting someone's (perfectly normal / in a healthy range) clothing size in an attempt to sling insults. [/quote]

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