She should be more concerned with the fact that her son has left card buying and signing for his family to his bride and isn't doing it himself.
No no no. She's going to be a wonderful wife, which I'm SURE the fact she does the card buying is RIGHT in line with this woman's idea of what makes a good wife!
Really though - this woman needs to back off or she'll do a GREAT job of making her DIL dislike her.
She may or may not also call her son crying about how she neeeeeeeeeeeeeeds a better relationship with FDIL and she just wants to be friennnnnnnnnnds.
OMG. That sounds... fun. Yeah.
Alice-Mom sounds silly.
LOL, it's great. And by great, I mean, I don't talk to them any more unless I have to, with R's understanding and agreement.
The Alice-Mom thing pisses me off to no end. She started trying to just call herself mom, and when it was clear I wasn't having that AT ALL, she switched to Alice-Mom. Still NO. But I just roll my eyes and ignore it at this point.
Actually she hates you already MIL because Best is phony AF.
QFMFT.
That is the LAMEST way EVER to close a letter/note/email. A bunch of dumbasses in my building sign their emails this way, and I think it's phony AND LAZY. You can't be bothered to write REGARDS or WISHES or what-the-fuck-ever in your closing? GTFO.
I agree w/ the others about the future of this MIL-DIL relationship.
Actually she hates you already MIL because Best is phony AF.
QFMFT.
That is the LAMEST way EVER to close a letter/note/email. A bunch of dumbasses in my building sign their emails this way, and I think it's phony AND LAZY. You can't be bothered to write REGARDS or WISHES or what-the-fuck-ever in your closing? GTFO.
I agree w/ the others about the future of this MIL-DIL relationship.
Best is what I close an email with when I really would prefer the person I am emailing fall off the edge of the flat-earthers' ice wall.
This is giving me flashbacks to the time that my MiL ignored a really important email because I addressed it “hi,” and she didn’t like that. Guess who I just don’t send any communication to at all now?
Actually she hates you already MIL because Best is phony AF.
I always use "best."
😈
My absolute favorite history professor also did. We were close enough that she had me over for champagne after graduation, and recommended me for grad school (which I only did through Masters then fizzled our sadly).
Oh, God. This woman is going to sign her cards to her FDIL "Love, Name-Mom"
Ask me how I know.
Lol, yes. My ex-mil would sign things "Other Mother." Then Coraline came out and I laffed and laffed.
My ex MIL actually used to to do both of those things (well she'd say "other mom" on the phone), but probably since I was 18 when my ex-h and I started dating. I did and still do adore her, she's a wonderful human being. But if I DIDN'T like her? That would've just added fuel to the fire.
I agree with HRH Queen Dick I, she probably hates her future MIL, but at least she still sends her cards. Of course if this is the sort of Petty Betty shit that gets this woman riled up, it seems the hate is probably justified.
She may or may not also call her son crying about how she neeeeeeeeeeeeeeds a better relationship with FDIL and she just wants to be friennnnnnnnnnds.
This was my STBX-MIL. She thought I would be like the daughter she never had, except her relationships with her sons are totally dysfunctional and I didn't want to be part of that nonsense in more than a tangential way I needed to be as an in-law.
She also signed her cards Mom MIL name. Her PA way at poking at the fact I didn't want to call her mom.
Post by rupertpenny on Apr 20, 2018 7:58:07 GMT -5
I often use “best,” but never did until I moved abroad.
Where I live now everyone is super formal in emails. Even my boss, who is also American but has been here a long time, gets shirty if I don’t use a full salutation and valediction in every email.
Anyway, I don’t tell my in laws that I love them either. Maybe I’d sign “xx, Rupert” or something on an email.
Post by cattledogkisses on Apr 20, 2018 8:10:26 GMT -5
Different families have different ways of expressing affection, and the DIL probably just comes from a family that doesn't use that kind of verbiage. That's my family. H's family is always saying that they love each other and even after being with him for 13 years it still feels super weird for me to be like, "...Love you too.." to my ILs because my family doesn't say that.
Post by sugarglider on Apr 20, 2018 8:19:00 GMT -5
Ha! I almost always use Best in emails and Best Regards in letters. Not facetiously. Maybe now I should rethink.
Oh, and once my bf’s parents sent me a congratulatory gift and signed the Amazon note, “Love, Mom & Dad,” so I texted my own parents a thank you. That was awkward. 🤦🏻♀️