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    This is a vent also so please bear with me and I will give you a little background. To put it nicely, I can't stand my in-laws, mainly my mother in law. I find her to be a fake, phoney, schrew (we have 0 in common so when we do talk, it's about the weather) and I don't trust her super sweetness, never have. I know she is a 2-face as she has bashed her own mother in law for the past 85 years, while going in with the OVERKILL, calling her MOM, being not just cordial but sickenly sweet, you would think she LOVED her. I am civil, polite and respectful when I HAVE to see her. Otherwise, I don't go out of my way to spend time with them, we don't talk on the phone and he goes to visit without me sometimes, he should that's his parents. I haven't seen them in months thank god. I think the fact that I am not seeking her approval irritates her even more. There have been many instances where she was rude to either me or people connected to me, for example, her and her husband not even ACKNOWLEDING or saying hello to my bridal party as they waited outside our church for the rehearsal dinner or rolling her eyes IN FRONT OF ME, when my own mother has called her son's phone (she couldn't get a hold of me and it was urgent) All along though my husband will say "oh she's has been trying to get close to you for years". Uhuh.  Or the once over she gives me, the look over from head to toe, EVERYTIME I see her, the look thar imo jealous women give you when they are comparing you to themselves.

    So, our wedding photos came in which included getting 2 parent albums. We decided to let both families choose what photos they want in the album even though techincally we could have just chosen the pictures and made 2 duplicate albums. Each side of the family also gets 1 enlargement, like an 8x10 or something included in the price. So my husband came home with the pictures, her pictures were put in an envelope seperately, why I don't know, since my family and my husband and I are supposed to be able to choose from ALL of the pictures. So I called my family up and told them to take those pictures out and mix them in with the other ones and they could choose them if they like as well. His mom marked on the back of the proofs which ones she liked anyway. So I ask my husband what picture his mom chose for the enlargement. She chose 2, one of her and her husband, because it was their day after all lol and a second of JUST HER, HER HUSBAND and MY HUSBAND. Hmm..how nice. No enlargement of the married couple? And again, this is coming from someone who just LOVES me lol. I am almost certain that this was done totally on pupose. His mother is a little passive aggrassive schrew who likes to play games. And in the past, I will play right back. So I questioned my husband about this. Then the story changed, now it was they wanted those pictures on top of everything else and they were paying extra for those. So ok, still where was the 8x10 of US she chose? I was already stressed out and in a bad mood over work and this sent me a little over the edge. Of course we got in a fight about it. My family agreed, saying of couse his parents should choose a picture of the COUPLE but it is HER house and she can display or do whatever she wants to do and maybe she didn't do it on purpose. WHICH IS TRUE! So I made my husband call his house and put her on the spot asking WHAT PICTURE of both of US does she want blown up. Of course she said we could choose from the pile she had chosen, which consists of like 25 pictures. He called her back again saying we did not have time to go through 25 pictures so which one was it, now it was "oh I didn't know I was allowed an enlargement"..Huh?

    So would you be devilish about this, give her ONLY an enlargement of you and your husband (forget to order hers)lol? Advice? Either way, She's GETTING an enlargement of both of us, and if she has to pay extra, oh well. I know I should just be NICE about this though..

     
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    JennyW1    February 19, 2011  

    Good gosh. You said it first:

    "His mother is a little passive aggrassive schrew who likes to play games."

    And you are playing right back. Toxic people are not people to play around with. Let them do as they do and be as the be (to a point) and don't get entangled in their games. Give her what she requested, no more no less, and move on. Don't get into a fight over it--that's just going to be playing into her hands. It's just a picture and it's just a photo album and it's HER photo album in the end (and why would you want to be in any photo album owned by this person?) What she's doing is goading you into drama and it's working. She is really not worth the consternation.

     
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    No, these are extra enlargements that you would say, put on the wall or something. It's not the actual album. I always thought it was just customary and in every house I have walked into, to display the COUPLE. So don't even give her an enlargement of us? Just order her the two photos of just her and her "MEN" lol. I know I am OVERREACTING to this, SORRY LADIES, but being that I am under so much stress to begin with, this just really PO's me off today. Should I just go on completely ignoring her like I have been?

     
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    JennyW1    February 19, 2011  

    Unless the pics need to be ordered today, take some time and cool off before you do anything. Or, if it helps, order an enlargement, put it someplace safe, buy a pretty frame and that can be her holiday gift. But I wouldn't dare show her that she got to you. You scored the man in the end, no?

    (Truth be told, her reaction strikes me as so tragic it's funny. The MIL just married off her son and can't come to grips that she doesn't have her MEN any more so she's reliving it through her son's wedding photo album? That's like Baby Jane tragic :)

     
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    We're doing all this tomorrow..but LOL I had that idea too. Maybe not giving her the enlargement right away, but buy it, then frame it in a really nice frame...and LOOK..this will be my Christmas gift to her. And I will make sure I give it to her infront of EVERYONE =)

     
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    nyebride    nyebride  

    Instead of asking which one they wanted, we chose for them and we gave them a picture frame.  So my MIL was given a picture of the 3 of us but I can bet you $500 it went to the trash and instead there is a picture of her and DH.  Now, I could care less what pictures she has and doesn't have in her room.  As much as she hates me, the last thing I would want in my room is a pic of someone I hate, you know? 

    I think at this point, I would leave it up to DH.  Let him decide.  Another option you have is to pick nothing for her and let her pick and pay out of her own pocket.

     
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    Mrs. AF    July 28, 2012   New Jersey(vow renewal in Montana)

    I am sorry...people are petty! if she is so miserable then I would not pay for an album. My first MIL was this way and in every photo she had a disaproving look on her face. So I just did not have photos of her inour house. Thankfully I am not married to him anymore so the point is mute. You can't make people like you or put a picture of you in their house...I wish you luck and I would let her contact the photog herself with the photos she wants, this way you are not involved with her decision! Also, when things have cooled down I would let her know how her actions hurt you...she may change if you stand up for what you believe in. There is a quote that helps me:"STAND UP FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN, EVEN IF YOU ARE STANDING ALONE".

     

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