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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That would irritate me in so many small ways.

1. He shouldn't be eating that much, honestly. Restaurant dishes are usually higher in calories than their home-made counterparts.

2. Try something radical. When he visits, don't go out to eat. Cook at home, or order less-expensive take-out. Tell him you're on a budget, even if it's not true. Watch him struggle with that, then when he's not around, splurge! ;-)
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Op here with an update. FIL came for Easter. To say he was infuriating was a huge understatement. Wallet stayed firmly in his back pocket but he was full of suggestions about where he wanted to go (meaning where he wanted us to treat him).

I took the advice of many like this PP and got takeout the Saturday before Easter. First of all, he insisted on ordering multiple entrees because “nothing tastes better than leftovers”. I ignored him and ordered one entree per adult, one of the appetizers he ordered, and didn’t order dessert at all. Fil did not offer to pay. When the food arrived, he ripped the bags from my husbands hands immediately started serving himself. He didn’t even wait for everyone to get to the table before he was gobbling. By the time we managed to sit down he had consumed two entrees completely and was working on the one he ordered. There was nothing really left for my husband and I to eat, and FIL said well i ordered two entrees and a bunch of apps but it looks like the restaurant didn’t put them in the bag!!  My husband through clenched teeth told him to please wait for everyone to sit down before eating and for the love of God each person is entitled to eat the entree they ordered. He looked utterly wounded and tearful, but did not offer to pay or apologize. He spent the rest of Saturday sulking.

Do I think he learned his lesson?  No because my kids caught him eating out of their Easter baskets. He then asked me where the leftover candy went, and I had to tell him that the Easter bunny brought the baskets not me. My kids definitely now know there is no such thing as the easter bunny. [/quote]

Either we have 1) trolling, 2) an OP who is exaggerating to the extreme for attention/sympathy, or 3) a FIL with extreme mental illness.[/quote]

Nobody can eat that fast or else the family is incredibly slow to sit down. What are you all doing that he was eating that much? This seems more than a little far fetched.[/quote]

When he gets into his “gobbling frenzy” (this is DH’s term) he eats super quickly.  Yes we were slow to sit down- I had to round up the kids and make sure everyone washed their hands.

At the end of the day, please just move on. It’s an anonymous forum- I don’t really care if you believe me or not. I do think you’re a bit sad posting this over and over. I get it, the situation is weird as heck. I wish I wasn’t in it, or at least I wish I wasn’t bothered by it.  I am still annoyed at FIL and am dreading the next visit. We haven’t planned anything yet but I am not abandoning him over the holidays because he has an emotional eating disorder or mental illness or something. [/quote]

You're delusional if there's only one person calling BS on your story.[/quote]

Every couple days she’ll add another fake zinger.

Mashup of bizarre IL posts all in one monstrosity. [/quote]

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