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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Oh, Mary,miss there something on my face? You're staring at me."

"Oh, Mary, you're staring at me again. Is there lipstick on my teeth?"

"Mary, you're staring at me again! Is something wrong?"

Stay low-toned, but call it out,Mach and every time. [/quote]

Ok, so I have done this a couple times too.  Those times, she just kind of shakes her head, and I get the sense she really wants to say something and then thinks better of it.

On reflection, there have been many times that she does this wild intense stare that goes on way too long, and then finally she says something CRAZY.  I'm not sure that's what the other thing is because we are just sitting there listening to dinner conversation.  I honestly have no idea.[/quote]

It sounds like she’s zoning out as she battles her inner demons about whether or not to say the crazy thing she’s thinking about.[/quote]

Op, what crazy things does she say?

Pp is totally describing my long time friend who does have a personality disorder and bipolar disorder. Most of the time she functions ok, and actually has decent insight and checks her behaviors. I have totally caught her staring at me, and when I say "what? Why are you staring at me?" She'll start to say something, then stop, then start, then say nevermind, then say something like "It's just, you look so much like Lisa Simpson, but if I said that to you, you'd be offended. You are very pretty! But you look like Lisa Simpson sometimes and I love it and I love you! Hahaha, seriously, no offense, I was just thinking about that but I couldn't say it to you." (That's one example).

I've watched her do this many times to people, and pp you described it perfectly! [/quote]

That's kooky but endearing.

The stuff my MIL has said after some of her crazy stares are things like how she had a dream that our baby would die. Or after her daughter was released from the ED clinic and on her way to recovery, she'd whisper to me within earshot of her daughter about her dream that she became morbidly obese and ill and covered in bruises and hospitalized. Or she'd tearfully tell me how my FIL hasn't been intimate with her. Things she really should keep to herself and inappropriate to share.  Thats why I mostly ignore - the times my husband or I have responded to her stares by asking her what's up - that's the kind of stuff we get - and then a whole emotionally dramatic display, with tears.[/quote]

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