Originally Posted by
ItsmeAlice 
This makes me think of my ABF's mother who has bipolar issues and troubles with alcohol and sought many years of therapy for them. She has said rather hurtful things to me, to ABF, and to other people when she has visited us or when we've visited her. When she is asked why she would say such things, or what would make her say that out loud, she will counter that she learned long ago in therapy not to care what people thought about her and to speak her mind.
Don't you just love it when people twist things to suit their bad behaviors?
I could walk around and be an a$$hole and tell people if they are offended, well that's their stuff to deal with.
That's not how it works, at least not in my world.
There's a difference between expressing my feelings tactfully, and being rude and obnoxious. It certainly sounds like she has a rationalization for her 'rude' and 'obnoxious', no?
:ghug :ghug