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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, look at you MIL dofferently.

Many People, especially in this area, don't have family nearby so they end up making a surrogate family with their friends.

Is it possible your MIL has done the same since her kids are gone, where what you consider just a bunch of strangers and her friends are actually the people who fill the "family" role in her life? [/quote]

Maybe, but I just don't care? I still find it obnoxious that she's throwing a party for herself. With me and my baby as proxy. And that I got guilted/tricked into it. But I'm sure everyone is sick of my problems, LOL. [/quote]

OP, it genuinely sounds like you do not like your MIL at all, and no matter what she does you will find a way to find fault it.

If she does something kind like throwing a shower to celebrate her grandchild, you hide behind pretending to be Emily Post and that she is breaching all types of the finer points of manners.  Next it will be showing too much interest in seeing baby after it is born, or showing not enough interest in baby. Or she will sing the wrong lullabies. Or not know the books your mom knows.

I think that you have far bigger issues that have nothing to do with her kindness in celebrating this baby.

You need to quit looking for fault where there is none because you will end up making things REALLY ugly in the future when a true line in the sand situation arises.[/quote]

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