I have been NC with MIL for over two years. I have text exchanged with her calling her out on her behavior from when I initially cut her off.
My husband’s friends mother ran into her at CVS recently, she of course talked the woman’s ear off about how horrible I am. The friend told us afterward, and also let us know she pulled out texts she printed out of our conversation two years ago from her purse to show the friends mom, asking her to read it.
The pages aren’t even screen shots of our texts. She typed them out herself so she can leave out what she wants of them, which I know because she had given a copy to another friend that came over her house when it initially happened.
The friends mom said she wasn’t going to read them and she thinks I’m a sweet heart. I don’t know why I’m even surprised, but I am always shocked at what this lady comes up with.
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Wow, she’s extra special unpleasant!! Sorry you have to deal with the ripples of her distinction!
Wow that is absolutely insane behavior
I think you have to give her credit for the crazy mash-up of modern tech and early 2000s. I can’t believe that she’s carrying her grudge around in her purse in hopes of an audience to air it to. I would be tempted to anonymously send her a festivus pole.
You are NC, but you also live 24/7/365 in her mind, she is suffering, you are not.
Ugh, I can relate. My mil posted our texts online to prove I was the villian in the estrangement. She made sure to leave out the texts where she berated me over things I wasn’t in charge of with our wedding, how she argued incessantly about what day we would see her at Christmas and leaves out all the texts where she was texting before 6am. The fact they they leave things out and/or changes the texts just shows they know what they’re doing but are so insane they don’t care how horrible it makes them look.
At least her behaviour does nothing but make everyone she comes in contact with want to avoid her and think she’s crazy. Even crazy people presented with this behaviour would back away as rapidly as possible. Any sane person would immediately cross the street If they saw her coming.
That might be one of the wackiest things I’ve read here. Like she actually carries them around after two years so she can show them to people and “prove” that you are in the wrong? That’s just wild.
LOL she just carries it around in her purse?! Wild.
At CVS. Ma’am.
Is it laminated?