/duct tapes the mil to a chair in the attic and makes sure she can't make any noise

hides against Wolfie

/curls around protectively

whines

...oh no...moving up there won't mean seeing more of her...will it...

eh, maybe once a month. but no long vacations there anymore

hopefully that will keep things from building up

yeah...I feel like that would be better

(plus, hey, I will still be in Oklahoma most of the time for a while)

easier to handle the crazy when you get to control when you leave

fuck yes.

fucking hell, lady, just stfu

she's saying shit she said 26 years ago. and I think it's bullshit just as much, now, as it was then

she is NOT a fucking child expert. Jesus fucking Christ on a goddamn pogo stick

Oh no honey

Jesus, you'd think I'd be used to this shit by now

you never really get used to verbal/emotional abuse

this wasn't even actually abuse or anything this time. she just has... ideas. that are outdated or flat out wrong. and insists that they are so.

there IS abuse sometimes, but even just listening to her talk about her opinions can take it out of you

We had a loooot of fights with my mom when my niece was living here about like... outdated shit

no, cereal at 1 month is not okay.... idek if that was really okay when I was a baby but surely not now

the one that fucking kills me every damned time is when she insists babies have to crawl for a long time before they walk or else they're going to have issues in school. and with reading.

oh hell no not now

and she was acting g like there was something super recently new about limiting how much juice they have and giving it in a sippy cup

and she was insisting we just give her a bottle of water

because Brattiest made her a bottle after she nursed and the baby was still a little hungry

uuuugh what even

they don't want babies having extra water because apparently that messes with their electrolytes

yeahhhh

yeah Buggie wasn't supposed to have water until she was eating like... crackers and shit

brattiest behaved far more polite to her than I expected

she just nicely explained no this is how the baby's doctor says to do things now

especially considering​ last time she was here, with her hubby, things blew up so badly she ended up having to leave and go back to Oklahoma with the baby on a greyhound

MIL might have thrown Brattiest and hubby out, expecting them to leave the baby with my hubby (and oh thank god I wasn't here on that trip)

as in saying she was throwing them out to make a point and wanting them to crawl back to her and apologize

wooooooooooooow

goddamn

cus oh man, you want to know what started it all? Brattiest's hubby got so upset because my brother in law complains at and talks badly to my MIL

and he stood up to him For HER, but she chose to see it as picking a fight and being horrible

and yeah, things blew up from there

Al sorts of horrible things were said, as happens with her

and yeah, the other grandkids haven't seen her since.

holy shit, woman. Whatnkfsldnjk WHAT IS HER DYSFUNCTION JFC!?

I just don't get it. hubby called for mother's day, cus duh, she's his mom. she kept on bugging him to talk SOMETHING politics, because that's what she does. he insisted he didn't want to because yeah, he KNOWS what happens when you do this with her

which means she is purposefully picking fight and refusing to let him back out politely and not engagae

which hey, that means you fucking ask for what you get

so he was shouting back at whatever idiotic bullshit she was espousing THIS time all because she wouldn't let him NOT talk

yeahhh

good lord

I absolutely despise that attitude

with every fiber of my being

she's so much better when I am drugged. and wearing headphones