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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom is like this.   When you visit her you eat breakfast at 7 am and then she'll tell you "Now no one eat anything else.  We're going to have a big dinner early tonight."

"Early" means 8 or 9 pm.   Then she wants everyone to head to the zoo (she lives in San Diego) and walk around for hours.   But NO FOOD.

My brother and his wife visited her with my 5 year old twin nieces...by 4 o'clock they put their foot down and ordered a pizza for their hungry kids.   [b]It caused a huge fight and my brother's family ended up cutting their visit short[/b] (they were visiting all the way from Texas.)
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So curious - how did this cause a huge fight? Who thinks that small kids can happily go 12+ hours without eating? Especially when walking around outside all day. And then being offended because children need food - what???[/quote]

PP you quoted here.
Exactly, it's insane that she thinks that.   She wasn't like that when my brothers and I were growing up, it's become more recent since she's gotten older.   But the "holding meals hostage" as we call it, has been going on at least ten years now.

It caused a fight because after my brother ordered the pizza, my mom kept glaring at my brother's wife (like she did something wrong by feeding her kids!)  and just generally making them feel uncomfortable.  [/quote]

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