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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are going about this all wrong.

This should take up hardly any space in your mind, and for crying out loud, stop asking DH to spend more time with people who treat him so poorly.

Let them go, to the greatest extent possible.  Fill your life with joy and people who treat you well.[/quote]

This.  My MIL is a b-tch, and it sounds like yours is too.  Only your situation is compounded by bitchy SILs.  I would not waste another minute on this.  In the beginning, I put a great deal of time and effort (e.g., Coach purse, cashmere scarf, concert tickets to her favorite singer, etc.) and she liked them, but she's not a nice person, so I decided DH can deal w/ figuring out gifts.  After enough years, it's hard enough to figure out nice gifts for the people you actually like and treat you nicely.

I can relate to the treating other grand kids better though.  I've seen it w/ BIL's kid (maybe b/c he was the first grandkid or maybe b/c he's not of mixed race like ours is (we're an inter-racial couple).  At any event, I do not go out of my way to foster any time w/ her or send pics to her (like an album).  I'm not good about printing out 1000s of digital files for our own family, I hardly have the time or desire to do so for her.

I am sorry that your DH's family treats you and him (which is weird since my MIL doesn't do this to her own kid) like second class citizens.  Move on and forget about them.  Life is way too short![/quote]

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