I call it the Death Glare. ltc is quite good at it.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Definitely related.
Well, my MiL is here. All week.
If she really wanted to be supportive, she would give me a fucking break.
I've seen her every month this year. For weeks at a time.
And I'd be good with seeing her once a year.
Even when she's trying to be nice she says something shitty.
Aw, so sorry that you aren't consoling each other right now. All that stuff is so heavy, and you aren't gonna see it the same way. Just because you're very different. But being shitty to my bunky is not making her friends. Sending ma to both of you, actually.
Is there somebody you could ask to be your Dan Dority and tell folks you're "not receiving"?
Aw, so sorry that you aren't consoling each other right now.
She's no consolation. She was actively shitty during the last weeks of Jacqueline's life. Narcissistically privileging her grief over helping/engaging with JZ, or supporting Matilda or me. Left in a screaming rage on the day my wife died. She's a trial and requires a fuck-ton of energy for me to deal with her.
She's humorless (self admitted!), judgmental, passive aggressive, sulking, skulking, sour, crabby. It sucks for me to be in her space for an hour much less a week.
Is there somebody you could ask to be your Dan Dority and tell folks you're "not receiving"?
I'm working out the wording on dis-inviting her to Thanksgiving before she gets any ideas.
When she was trying to compliment me on the phone last week by saying, "I've looked through Jacqueline's photos as a child and she was always laughing. Then after the horrible incident when she was 14 she's not laughing in any pictures until she's married to you.
There are a lot of things I don't like about your marriage with Jacqueline but I want you to know that I appreciate that about you."
That was her idea of reaching out.
I’m so sorry, Hec. I know how hard that is and I don’t know any helpful tips to bear up under it, but you’ve got my sympathy
Hec, I’m sorry. She sounds like the opposite of Jacqueline. Does she have a good relationship with Matilda?