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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was a totally un-intentional mess up but here goes.... It certainly was a "bad DIL" moment.

DH's mother and father had an awful messy divorce when he was 20, and they have not spoken to each other since and both say nasty things about the other a lot (even though it's been 20 years now since the divorce).  Neither knows that DH has a relationship with the other (both think that DH sided with them and is estranged from the other), and MIL is always saying things like "You're not talking to your father on the phone are you?"  DH in fact has a relationship with both and we visit both and talk to both on the phone.  Neither MIL nor FIL seems to have been able to move on from the divorce even though it's been 20 years already.  For example, at our wedding, since MIL attended FIL refused to attend, etc.  So they're just incredibly petty.

Anyhow, I had a family photo book made of some nice fall photos we got done with the kids, and I wanted to send one to MIL and one to FIL.  I also wrote a very nice note with each photo book.  Well, you can guess what happened.

Even though I checked the note name/address a zillion times before I mailed it, MIL ended up with FIL's note/book, and FIL ended up with MIL's note/book.  I still have no idea how this happened.  As you can imagine, when MIL saw this and "discovered" that we still have a relationship with FIL she was livid and didn't speak to us for a whole year.  She still brings it up, 5 years later.  DH was so mad at me.  I still have no idea how this happened.  [/quote]

This is the one good story in this thread.  It was some sort of divine intervention, I think!  I have an inlaw that had a similar situation with parents who divorced when he was an adult.  Decades later, though, they've moderated somewhat and do know that he seems the other.  I know thrum both well and they are both super nice--but can't be in the same state as each other![/quote]

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