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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you. I will add she always is guilting us about not seeing the grandkids more (she can’t afford to visit often because of poor financial decisions and failing to save for her retirement) and asking when we will move back to her area (despite us owning our home here). So I just feel very picked at whenever she arrives and whenever I try to
Broach different topics - current events, what’s going on with the kids, things to do in the neighborhood, etc - she retreats to all of the aforementioned topics. So I guess part of my frustration is we have the same visit, conversationally, that we have every time she comes. She has zero interest in doing new activities with the kids, exploring our area, or even getting out of the house for a walk. [/quote]

Ugh, she’s socially quite awkward and clueless and rude. Is there any aspergers in the family? Is she divorced or widowed?[/quote]

Op here. Wow, so much character assassination. I’m sure some of you didn’t see my additional post where I explained her insane food issues and how she obsessively monitors everyone’s intake and what we eat and basically shames us for our diet. There’s literally no reprieve from her as she won’t even sit and enjoy a glass of wine with us - she would rather lecture us about the ills of dairy or alcohol. Or brag about how long she nursed my husband for. And the thing about my kids looking like her dead relatives is passive aggressive - it’s her way of basically ignoring my and my family’s mark on her kids. She’s from an ethnic background and they don’t resemble her and she’s upset about it so it’s her way of demeaning me. She’s actually divorced multiple times, has few friends, and had a very spotty job history because she kept getting fired from jobs for pissing people off and not befriending her supervisors but instead getting into it with them on a regular basis. She will argue with my husband at least once every visit and they won’t speak to each other and likely will yell at each other. She’s a lot of anyone to deal with, it’s not just normal old lady stuff. [/quote]
I guess you would know character assassination because that’s what you just did you didn’t give any of this bullshit and your original post but now you coming back with all of this horrible backstory nobody believes you. [/quote]

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