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This is so stupid and I think I'm reading too much into it, but anyways, here goes.

It was hubbie's b-day recently, and MIL sent him a card that said 'It is a great joy thinking about the boy you were, but it's a greater joy thinking about the man you have become'.  But she crossed out 'greater' and wrote in 'equal'.  This is just one more item in a long list of things that she does that say to me she is not willing to accept the fact that he's a grown up now. 

Don't get me wrong, she is a super nice lady and I like her a lot, but she does so many things like this that are overbearing and, to me, sort of stupid. 

Am I reading WAY too much into this 'rewording' (and honestly, if you don't like the message the card says, just buy a different card, jeez) or would anyone else be annoyed?

I mean, you ARE reading into it, but only because she made a very obvious change to the content of the message.  I'd roll my eyes at it too, but check yourself to make sure you don't have tons of buried resentment about their relationship.

ps- is anyone else experience forms of PTSD reading this thread so closely after after yrret's thread about the MIL and the songs?  I probably would have answered it a little differently a few days ago, but now i'm hyper sensitive to over-involved MILs!

Well, I would never ever bring it up to my husband or MIL, because it's absolutely not worth it, and it doesnt HURT anything, it's just irritating. 

sunshinebride: i'm sure there are oodles of girls out there w/MIL issues but I know exactly what thread you're talking about.  I only read the very first post and didn't have time to comment on it, but I totally got it; at our wedding MIL was sort of doing the same idea w/the mother-son dance song, only not AS bad w/all the cuts and stuff in it. 

Amandalynn-I don't have any resentment toward my MIL (yet lol) but honestly I do approach her w/mild trepedation because she has made me feel, in the past, that I'm not good enough for her son. 

For example, a few years ago hubs got really sick and almost died, was in the hospital for a little over a week.  His mom never came once to see him, and I was there in the hospital with him from 4 am to 7 am, went to work, back at the hospital right after work until 11 pm, and then back at the hospital the next day.  Follwing his release, his mother called me and had the nerve to tell me 'well I guess it's a good thing he's coming home now so you can finally see him after all that time.'.  I just felt slighted by that and so when she does things, like crossing words out in cards, I am sensitive to it because I'm always expecting another backhanded remark like the hospital one. 

but again, I'm not sure she even knows what she's doing, because she's a really really nice person most of the time.....I think she just might say dumb things and unintentionally hurt my feelings.....

LOL@ everyone's responses, I guess it is a common mom thing.  I'll file this one away so I know not to do it. 

@Ejs4y8: is it strange wording!  What cracks me up the most about it (now it's just funny when I think about it) is that her editing made it sound less good hahahaha.  Like he's not better now, so she had to make sure to cross off 'greater' and downgrade it to equal.