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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the article it says very early on the son starts comparing his family to his fiancé's family.  My MIL did this shortly after I married DH.  She would compare her family with mine.  My MIL was mentally unstable or emotionally immature, whatever you want to call it, she caused a lot of drama and problems.

I think there were issues with the new DIL who didn't want to share with a new family.

I think this because at the end when the family wanted to know what was wrong, the couple wanted to rug sweep it and not talk about it.  Mentally unstable people do this, they don't talk about issues.  I mean you have this massive estrangement with someone but you won't or can't talk about it - the person who can't or won't talk is the problem, so in this case it's the son and DIL.  I honestly think they won't talk because they know they will get hit with the truth and they can't handle that.[/quote]

You’re assuming her framing is true. From what the DIL said it sounds like very little here is accurate. [/quote]

What? [/quote]

LOL, looks like the MIL finally found this thread. years later.[/quote]

No, but probably several MILs who deal with toxic and mentally ill DIL and SILs. I know  a few. It wasn't until a school  got involved that the world knew what DIL was like behind closed doors.  Narcissists are really really good at presenting one facade and acting in another behind the scenes. But it never lasts, eventually it comes out.

I am not a MIL, or DIL,  but I am with Mom on this one. And she probably helped a lot of her peers who deal with this very painful subject. In this one family, the parents were almost destroyed by grief. Sorry, there was no reason in this story to actually disinvite his parents. None.[/quote]

Everyone keeps missing this very important point:  THEY WERE NEVER DISINVITED.

The mom disinvited herself, and called the rest of her family members and told them not to go either.  The son and wife tried to reach out to her several times.  [/quote]

Can you actually read? Literally none of that happened.  You made that entirely up.

Talk about personality disorder.... :roll: [/quote]

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