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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]How does your MIL seeing her nose on her grandchild take a single thing away from you.[/b]

2 of my kids look nothing like me or anyone in my family.  The other one has my coloring, and grew into features like my family but looked like my husband's family for the first 3 years.  None of them could see a single feature that looked like me.

And when there was a feature that resembled me as a child (like curly hair) they could not figure out where it came from (was it a great uncle several generations back???) because they had zero idea what I looked like as a toddler.

Really, truly I understand wanting your kids to look like you, but someone not noticing that resemblance to your babyhood is not an affront to you, nor is you MIL seeing herself in her grandchild

There are plenty of real affronts that a typical MIL makes to a DIL.  Why create a snub where there is none? Why get hot and bothered by a grandma having a perfectly loving and normal reaction to her grandchild?[/quote]

it takes the nose, specifically. now, most people don't care about their nose or any other part in particular, but when a MIL claims 99% of everything, physical, behavioral or other, then that sure gets old quickly - not that you would know because clearly you have zero experience with this.[/quote]

You are picking the wrong hill to die on, DIL.[/quote]

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