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Husbands grandma?

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Snowy27 · 28/12/2011 16:33

Hi
Not sure if anyone can give me any advice or maybe tell me if I'm over-reacting!
My husbands grandma is a bit 'much', she once told me that I was 'stealing him away from her' and I feel that everyone in the family has to 'dance to her tune' a bit- she regularly falls out with people (mostly her brothers and sisters!), rang me up when I was having pregnancy problems to tell me all about herself, regales us with tales of her horrible life etc

So this Christmas (not Christmas day itself) we're all together and we'd agreed to open presents after lunch, she handed me a present and said it was for our wedding and to open it now, I said that was lovely but I didn't want nieces and nephews to see me opening it as they'd want to pile into the presents! She had a proper death grip on my arm and kept going on at me to open it, she was a bit close to my face and it all felt a bit aggressive particularly as I was now pinned to the chair! SIL went and got H from the kitchen and I passed it to him to open, The only people in the room were SIL, DH's other grandma and FIL sisters so no-one 'directly' related to her.

I'm pregnant at the moment so probably feeling very hormonal!

Any help? DH isn't fond of her so that's not an issue, it's just that I'm normally a fairly assertive person but she just wouldn't listen and it actually upset me a bit.

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Catsmamma · 28/12/2011 16:35

all of this could have been avoided if you had just opened the parcel!

pictish · 28/12/2011 16:37

That's what I was thinking Cats
Just open the damn parcel then!

LynetteScavo · 28/12/2011 16:39

Your DH isn't fond of her.

(I take it you are already married) Did she even go to the wedding?

She is a mad old bat. Avoid her as much as you can.

What was the present, anyway?

Snowy27 · 28/12/2011 16:45

I did open it eventually (well DH did!) and it did set various nieces and nephews off wanting to open their Christmas presents, all under 6 so found it hard to see why I got to open a present and they couldn't pile in! and as we were 2 minutes from lunch it caused a bit of a scene trying to wrest presents out of their sticky mitts! Blush

It was some second hand crystally champagne flutes, she found them in a charity shop (which she told us, lovely thought but really not my kind of thing) she had bought us some glasses to match other stuff we'd got but we can't have them till we go and visit her...

I'll chalk it all up to pregnancy hormones!

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Snowy27 · 28/12/2011 16:49

actually having studied them I would describe them more as glittery. With carved fruit on.

Will hide them in the cupboard and get them out only if she comes over!

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LynetteScavo · 28/12/2011 16:51

At least she didn't rill them with sherry and insist you drink it.

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