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[quote=Anonymous]My techniques would be to be VERY busy with child care anytime she launches into a story I've heard before.  Or man it looks like I gotta take the trash out RIGHT NOW.  Leave your DH listening to it ALONE.  The reason he is blaming you is because he has already learned to ignore it completely.  Which means you are sitting there acting polite, when everyone else in the room is IGNORING HER already.

So put it back on him.  When she starts, you leave to check on a kid or buzz around doing dishes or whatever.  Leave him there to be the only one to absorb the endless diatribes.

My MIL does this too.  I have heard the same damn stories about my DH for YEARS.  She wants to talk about dead relatives, and I just excuse myself BEFORE my DH does the same thing.  That way, he's holding the bag.  It was years of me sitting there wondering why everyone else had found something else to do while I had to listen to the ranting.  Now I beat them to it!  And let me tell you, it doesn't stop it!  But I feel better.  Now she yells at my DH for not paying enough attention to her.  Oh well!  It's your mom, you deal with it.

She also likes to launch into Advice Mode.  Which is generally criticizing financial choices we've made.  Which is pretty interesting from a woman who has had almost NO financial security in her life.

I also drink a lot of wine.[/quote]

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