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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL never stops talking and always about topics that I have zero interest in. She also does not respond to cues or redirection. She could be talking to a plant or anyone in the world. It’s relentless and makes me feel crazy. [/quote]

This. I just spent a week with my ILs and retreated at every possible moment. They never listen, never engage, they just talk to talk. Oh you’re telling the same anecdote about your 50th high school reunion. I’ve heard it 28 times and am somehow supposed to engage. Oh you fail to listen to me so much that, after knowing me for 12 years, you don’t remember my siblings’ names, so when I bring them up in conversation, you say, “Who’s that?” Yeah, let me invest a lot of time and energy in you. [/quote]
Lol. Same dynamic here. Last week my MIL spent a good 45 minutes telling me about the various careers of her former neighbors’ children. I’ve never met any of the people, and they all have very common careers. Why are we having this conversation? She also told me for the 20th time the story of how the cheerleader who acted snooty in HS is now, 50 years later, obese and divorced. I tried to cut her off, noting that she’d told the story before and also on leaded it in a recent Christmas letter (!), but no dice. [/quote]

Omg my in-laws just left and it’s all of this. Also, from the moment they arrive, there’s an ongoing dialogue between them about where they each are on the upgrade list for first class. We hear roughly 10 updates a day. A decade + later I now run errands or leave to hang w friends the entire visit and drop in for a dinner or two. They really only care about seeing DH and grandkids anyway.[/quote]

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