Mother-in-law coming
July 25th 2007 14:46
Good morning everyone,
Hope evryone is good today. I must start by saying that I don't feel well today. As a matter of fact, I feel miserable and it has nothing to do with the fact that my mother-in-law is coming in for a visit. Alright, it has everything to do with the fact that my mother-in-law is coming in. I have mentioned before in this blog, that I don't have the greatest relationship with her. Her conversations with me usually start with, "I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, but..." That is the nice version. It is usually much worse than that. At least it was, now, there is this feeling of avoidance and trying not to step on toes. The problem is, that she still hasn't stopped criticizing me, only now, she does it to my wife when they're on the phone. I don't hear about it until later. The woman just aggravates me and I am stuck. My father-in-law passes away last year and even though we didn't always see eye to eye, I got along much better with him than with her. He had been sort of a buffer. Now that he is gone, it is just butting heads and I feel like I can't say anything, because she is still getting very depressed about it. I can't blame her, but I do feel stuck that I can't fight back and open my mouth. I'd feel like a heel for making her cry, which she still does on her own a lot. So, what I usually do is the mature thing and avoid her. When she is in the house, I usually hang out in my office and board myself up in there for the duration. My wife gets annoyed with me, but I prefer that than having to deal with her. I think that it works better that way. It does annoy me that she comes for such a long time, but it is my wife's mother and I can't do anything about it. Although, she gets my wife nervous as well. My wife gets jittery when she's around and many times I have had to step in for my wife's defense. Anyway, that's it for now. Hope you all have a great day and wish me luck.
Later,
Jonathan
Hope evryone is good today. I must start by saying that I don't feel well today. As a matter of fact, I feel miserable and it has nothing to do with the fact that my mother-in-law is coming in for a visit. Alright, it has everything to do with the fact that my mother-in-law is coming in. I have mentioned before in this blog, that I don't have the greatest relationship with her. Her conversations with me usually start with, "I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, but..." That is the nice version. It is usually much worse than that. At least it was, now, there is this feeling of avoidance and trying not to step on toes. The problem is, that she still hasn't stopped criticizing me, only now, she does it to my wife when they're on the phone. I don't hear about it until later. The woman just aggravates me and I am stuck. My father-in-law passes away last year and even though we didn't always see eye to eye, I got along much better with him than with her. He had been sort of a buffer. Now that he is gone, it is just butting heads and I feel like I can't say anything, because she is still getting very depressed about it. I can't blame her, but I do feel stuck that I can't fight back and open my mouth. I'd feel like a heel for making her cry, which she still does on her own a lot. So, what I usually do is the mature thing and avoid her. When she is in the house, I usually hang out in my office and board myself up in there for the duration. My wife gets annoyed with me, but I prefer that than having to deal with her. I think that it works better that way. It does annoy me that she comes for such a long time, but it is my wife's mother and I can't do anything about it. Although, she gets my wife nervous as well. My wife gets jittery when she's around and many times I have had to step in for my wife's defense. Anyway, that's it for now. Hope you all have a great day and wish me luck.
Later,
Jonathan
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Anyway, GOOD luck!