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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIL told my younger daughter "too bad you won't ever be as pretty as your sister".

I was nice to her for 15 years then gave her to my DH lasted a year.He hasn't spoken to her since. Been married 34 years.

Makes me sad sometimes, but life is so much less toxic.[/quote]

OP here, here's a story I have along those lines.

We were at her/FIL's house for Xmas one year. One evening while everyone was mingling before dinner, she called me over to her because she wanted to show me something. She proceeded to show me her nephew's (sister's son) family photo xmas card. She covered the card with her hand and slowly revealed each person, one by one. Saying something like "so look at this, and this, and this..." And then she got to the last person (nephew's oldest daughter, a tween at the time) and she said "and then you have THIS" and she laughed/snickered. She was making fun of nephew's daughter's looks; implying look at these beautiful people, and then look at this TROLL! I was *horrified*. She then said something about nephew's wife trying to get oldest daughter to lose weight or something. I was so stunned, I wasn't paying attention anymore. I didn't know how to react. I gave a knee-jerk uncomfortable smile and walked the F away. Terrible person.
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You stayed silent and didn't defend a child and her loving family. You wrote a permission slip for MIL to behave that way in your presence. You being weak and spineless is hardly that much better than her toxicity. [/quote]

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