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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former MIL of a woman who was a total psycho and treated my son very badly until he was finally able to divorce her after waiting until their kid graduated HS I'd like to just know this:

Why does everybody automatically assume this MUST be completely a case of a wacky bitchy MIL and can't possibly be caused by whatever the DIL is like?

I mean, isn't it possible that if his mom was as bad as OP says then her H would maybe do something about it, like defend his wife and not put up with his mom's crap?  Just wondering.[/quote]

Did you read the original post?  Like at all?  The MIL sent the DIL an imperious post ordering her to show the email to the son.  Son is obviously ignoring MIL.  There are ways to do that in polite, firm, but distant way.  Perhaps MIL could have said, Jane, I haven't heard from David in a while, and I was trying to make sure he knew that cousin Kathy had passed from Covid.  Would you please ask him to respond to my email?  Thank you.

NOT: Jane, print out this email and show it to David.  I'm only emailing you because he doesn't check his email often enough.

Sounds to me like the son IS ignoring the MIL and not putting up with her crap by simply not responding to tales of woe of second counsins, and MIL is trying to work around that.  [/quote]

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