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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Narcissists are actually pretty rare and if you meet one, you won't forget it. Everyone who comes in contact with them will have a story about how poisonous they are. They will do absolutely evil things. What we are talking about here are merely selfish, spoiled women who can't be bothered to be friendly to a sister in law and those are common indeed.
Mine is much like a PP's in that she knows absolutely nothing about me, has never tried to have a conversation, couldn't even be bothered to mention our engagement or first pregnancy, ignores me at every party and acts sweet to my family and friends who are strangers to her. I even came to a work event of hers to be supportive (she wrote a message inviting one and all on facebook) and she acted like I wasn't there.
My husband finally asked her what her problem was and apparently it's because I'm Republican (something I've never mentioned to her but she knows through her brother). Ok.[/quote]

I've been a bleeding Dem since I was in the single digits and that's pretty bad. I engage with all relatives and ILs who are GOP. I don't shade my views, but I don't pretend to not see them.

I'm sorry about the work event - that cannot have been a great feeling to have been snubbed. In the early years, SiL called me for a recipe. I called her back - "she called me - how nice" - and she never returned the call. I showed up with the item when we were visiting them some time later (it's an easy item to take as a hostess gift) and she made a point of saying, "I asked you for that recipe and you never sent it to me." So I replied, "I called you back and never heard from you." Without missing a beat, she said, "I was calling for the recipe, not to talk." [/quote]

Ugh how painful! Why do they have to be this way!
Another time I sent her a text "Next Saturday is (her nephews) 2nd birthday, we'd love to see you and (boyfriend), at 3 pm blah blah" and got no response. The night before she texts my husband saying shes coming and asking if she should bring a dish to the party. He responded that I was the menu planner so I was the one to ask...radio silence.
I cannot imagine my mother or aunt ever treating their brothers wife this way. It really seems like the loss of formal manners means people think they should never be forced to interact with someone they don't care for. That's not a society.[/quote]

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