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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp here. Accidentally embedded my post in the quote. Damn iphone.[/quote]

I am the PP to whom you responded. The MIL said she would buy a glider, and said the one that was chosen was too expensive. So, the choices are to pick a cheaper one, or the couple buy it themselves. To complain because the MIL didn't want to spend what the DIL wanted her to spend is entitled, in my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong. If it were my MIL, I would have started a dialogue about what she wanted to spend/ how much is acceptable, and worked with that. It could be that MIL doesn't have current info about what these things cost. The DIL could always supplement some of her own money to buy the glider she wants, while still appreciating the gift rather than complaining about things not going exactly her way. [/quote] +1[/quote]

You people have no reading comprehension.  The first thing the PP said was that the baby was due any day and that her MIL had waited until now to tell her that she wasn't going to buy her the glider she had wanted (and it sounded like she would have just gone out and bought herself otherwise, a while ago).  Sounds like she would have been happier just to have gone out and bought the glider she wanted in the first place a long time ago.  Now she's imminently due to give birth and has to deal with it at the same time.

Sometimes people do this--make big pronouncements about some big ticket item they want to buy for you because they love that it makes them look like a generous hero.  Then it turns out there are strings attached or limits to the point that you'd rather just buy it yourself.  I've seen this happen and it turns something that should have been a nice gesture into at best an annoyance.[/quote]

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