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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ughh...that would drive me crazy.

I have a bunch of non-issues with MIL that drive me crazy too.  But she is far away, and I actually haven't seen her at all in over a year because I am just done.  
 
1)  DH and I are both doctors.  She keeps forgetting this.  She occasionally asks if I am still in training (she was at my medical school graduation 12 years ago), but otherwise does not seem to know that I work.    
2)  She refused to be in any wedding photos that I was also in because she was upset that I had not invited her to get her hair done with me, my sister, and my mom.  Because that day was about her.  
3)  Every time I invite her to a kids party or the like, she acts like I am totally incompetent.  Telling everyone loudly that her party for this event was so much better, that she is shocked how poorly I care for my children, bringing food and cake in case I forgot.  
4)  She was diagnosed with cancer about 2 years ago, and I asked if I could join her for one of her appointments to make sure that DH and I understood everything that was going on and could help advise her appropriately since she was asking for our input and because I fucking care about her.  She literally calls me the night before and tells me that she has an appointment at 11am the next day (she lives 2 hours away from me).  I have a small solo practice.  I would have had to get a babysitter, go into my office, and call all of my patients scheduled the next day and cancel.  She now says that I can't be bothered to go to her appointments, so she isn't going to ask.  
5)  More than once, I have made plans to see her, packed up all of the kids, driven up, and she has cancelled minutes before we were scheduled to be there.  Once, when she wasn't feeling well, but we hadn't seen her for several months, I had even rented a hotel room near her home so that she could just stop by and watch the kids play in the hotel pool and wouldn't feel obligated to walk around with them or let them run through her home.  She told me that she hoped I had a nice trip to her city, but she couldn't make it.  At all.  For five minutes.  All weekend.  She couldn't come to us, and we couldn't go to her.

I don't know.  I could go on and on.  It's all trivial, but it all drives me insane in the moment.  
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Wow, PP.  Totally not trivial.  She sounds way worse than my MIL and mine sucks.  [/quote]

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