starpiglet,
My hubby is not my 99's only son, actually not her son. She's his stepmother and my hubby has a younger brother but not married yet. The only kid she gave born to is the sister who lives in the East of US. What my 99 did is just to bad-mouth us in front of the other relatives. She always plays angel in front of the relatives and bad-mouth every person in the family, particularly my 62. Therefore, a lot of my hubby's relatives think that my 99 is very good and my 62 is a devil. The truth is that they are both no good and they have a very unhappy marriage.
Now, my 99 wants to play a powerful and influential person in the family but we don't buy it. My hubby knows that she's evil and we really don't want to care about what she did but it's just so irritating that she has done so much to hurt us. My hubby's relatives or his sister will call us and lecture us on how bad we did to her mom and why we did not appreciate her work. She gave my hubby a check for my daughter and my hubby forgot to cash in for maybe 2 months. She told her daughter that my hubby did not like her gift to the grand-daughter and not respectful to her. Actually, we were too busy to go to bank. Why can't she just ask us directly but made her unreasonable comments? She always has hinden agenda on what she do and talk. So, I would minimize the chance to talk to and to see her.
Sue, you are so lucky that your 99 is so considerate and she's so wise to not to repeat what her 99 had done. My 99 also complained that her 99 was so mean to her but what she has done made me think that she deserves it and I'll not act chicken.
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