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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Admittedly, I haven’t read the entire thread, but I don’t understand the part about praying for the sick or other individual people during grace. That is not a Catholic thing or even a generally Christian thing. Grace before meals is simply supposed to be a prayer of thanks for the food given, not a time to offer up prayers for for general petitions. 
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Mom is having a spiritual crisis and inflicting it on those around her.  Doesn't sound like mom is doing the work she needs to do to figure out where she belongs, though.[/quote]

+1  I was raised Catholic and said a traditional Catholic grace.  I'm now Methodist and when my kids attended a Methodist preschool they learned a different grace and we switched to saying that.  Neither one has anything to do with praying for specific people.  It's a ritual of thankfulness not a free-form praying for everything (that's more of a bedtime prayers think in my experience).  Certainly, some Christians do that at mealtimes but there not one way it HAS to be done.

Regardless, Grandma is out of line.  The fact that she keeps pushing it makes me think OP hasn't given her a firm and repeated "no."  She needs to stop engaging on it in anyway, the answer is "no", period.[/quote]

I have given her many firm replies. She is an exceptionally pushy person. I will keep trying. [/quote]

[b]I hear you OP.[/b] My mother is also very pushy about some child rearing issues. After 10 times I just ignore it and change the subject or at the most say "we discussed this, I know how you feel and you know how I feel about this. It won't change". Done. [b]It's really hard.[/b] Don't frame it as "trying" frame it as the new way of dealing with your mom about issues you disagree on. This won't be the only one. You don't have to agree but she has to grudgingly respect your choice as a parent. [/quote]

What a grown up response, PP.  This is ANOTHER good example for you Op.[/quote]

OP here. I appreciate that this person acknowledged that they share my experience. I consider this much more helpful than those who make all of this sound so easy. Notice how this person said "It's really hard" and "I hear you." [/quote]

You let this go on for 16 pages and all you wanted was validation?  That's so cute.  Shut up, OP.  I hear you, you're a loser.  It's hard, especially when you're a loser.[/quote]

Wow. You are honestly an extremely mean person.

You should try to figure out why you feel the urge to call someone a loser. [/quote]

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