Never posted but yesterday’s interaction made my blood boil. My MIL is notorious for attention seeking, self-absorption, victim complex, all of it. I made the mistake yesterday of letting them know the details of our flight next week. Keep in mind she is such a diva she won’t travel to see us so we always have to go to their state, a 3.5 hr flight away. I was briefly pregnant and I was dreading telling her about the pregnancy at this visit. I guess that’s the silver lining in having a miscarriage.
Here’s the text exchange:
Me: We land at 11:45 am next Thursday!
Her: Great time of day to arrive! When’s a good day/time for the 4 of us to have a FT call to talk for about 15 min or so about your visit?
Me: We don’t have any plans except Saturday afternoon for X’s daughter X’s party and probably go to A & J’s on Sunday. I’m working remotely on Thurs, Fri, Mon. I think M is off.
(23 mins later)
Her: What’s going on?
(7 mins later)
Her: I’m saying that because you’re coming here, we’d like to talk with you, and you won’t. A & J are planning on everyone getting together at their place Sunday (M scheduled off) and y’all are a “probably.”
Me: I wasn’t ignoring your ask for a call. I’m at work, Michael is at work and won’t be able to schedule that til he’s off. I was giving you a heads up on our tentative plans. “Probably” didn’t mean we won’t go, but we didn’t know it had been set in stone. This is not an urgent matter so we can easily discuss it when we arrive.
That shut her up, and she made a comment later: “Miss our FT chats on the couch but realize you have a hectic schedule.”
WE DON’T HAVE A HABIT of REGULAR FaceTime calls!! I would die!!!