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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I've already posted a few times on thread (I'm the one going to scrape butter off strangers' toast....jk) but really i'm impressed with your grandmother. She is making some lucid comments and seems to know what she is talking about. She could be saying stuff like 20:26's grandmother. I bet she was a competent mother herself at the time. You have good genes.[/quote]

Are you joking again?  I'm really not trying to be snarky, it just that other people are talking about loss of filters and dementia and  you're saying she sounds lucid?  Knows what she's talking about?

What I would like to know is if she has always been a critical person or if this behavior is new for her.  If she used to be a doll, then I would go with all the dementia/aging votes and fall in the take a deep breath and just do your best to get through as politely as possible, but if she has always been very critical of others, then it's just her and her age is irrelevant (i.e., she should be told to stop in no uncertain terms).[/quote]

OP here. She's always had strong opinions but it has definitely gotten worse over the years so I think it's a combination of both. She's always been somewhat critical but it's worse with her age. I think she just thinks because she's 90 she can say whatever she wants. She also thinks just because she's 90 she knows everything about everything. She had 1 child that she raised 60 years ago. I have 3 which is vastly different and much harder than 1. She also tries to give her opinion about things she knows nothing about like breastfeeding. She never nursed. I've nursed 3 children but somehow she thinks she knows more.

I do really love my grandmother. I appreciate all the helpful comments. Honestly, I feel better able to deal with the next week just having discussed it here. Oh and I should add I have the utmost empathy for my parents but I knew that before these 2 weeks. My mother is an only child as is my grandmother so we have NO other family to help. [/quote]

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