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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can commiserate a little. DH’s brother’s family of 4 was visiting from overseas for about 2 weeks.  His wife didn’t learn so much as where the water glasses were.  She would ask how she could help after the table was set and food was being carried to the table.

We visited with them before in their home country, but DH’s parents were hosting or we’d pick up food from a restaurant to share.  She never did any meals for anyone other than her and her kids, not even for her husband.

She is very social and loves to be the center of attention and life of the party, but will not lift a finger until everything’s ready.

Maybe she’s super lazy, or maybe she cannot function without a maid.  My MIL and l both really disliked her and felt she treated both of us, and her husband, like employees.  And she had the least money of any of us - big spender and SAHM.

I have given DH a limit of 4 days for hosting them in the future, l don’t GAF that it’s a long way to travel.  Stay in a hotel.  [/quote]

Sounds like she has no executive function (meaning, she has ADHD). If she can't hold down a job or notice when help is needed, that speaks to inability to be attentive and get organized. And since she has money and no incentive to work, well, there's no urgent need to get meds or treatment for it.
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God, you people are positively Pavlovian. Not everything is ADHD. Sometimes people just suck.

-person with ADHD[/quote]

+1. Sometimes DCUM really goes out of its way to put things that just aren’t there into the thread. This one is a great example, as is the one where OP was accused of not eating food. As evidenced by nothing, apparently.

Sometimes people are just weird and annoying. I would never go into my host’s wine rack and start offering wine around in the middle of the afternoon. If I wanted wine, I’d ask. Putting out food and drink in someone else’s house reminds me of Uncle Frank from “Home Alone,” that scene where he comes in with shrimp and starts offering them around to people loudly, and the woman in the corner is like “Frank? Frank, those are for later…” then gives up.[/quote]

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