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[quote=Anonymous]There is usually a lot missing from this kind  story. These kind of people can often fool those who don't live with them.  I knew that my MIL was estranged from her own mother, and that my DH had never met his grandmother.  After MIL died, I cleaned out her house, and found lots of manipulative letters from the grandmother, the grandmother's friends, some distant relatives, and lawyers trying to convince MIL to reconcile and let the grandmother meet DH, the only grandchild.  I also found letters, and psychiatric reports indicating that the Grandmother had been kicked out of her own home as a teen by her older brother because she was physically and verbally abusive to her own family of origin, reports from a psychologist in the 1950's indicating that the grandmother had been verbally and physically abusive to teen MIL in the presence of the psychologist, and letters indicating that MIL's father stuck around and literally left his wife, taking teen MIL the day she turned 18 in order to protect her, and prevent her mother from having full or partial custody without his presence.    MIL often spoke lovingly of her father, who had unfortunately, died when she was in her mid 20's.  [/quote]

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