Wow, Kialua.
Yeeeshh, the "In-law Issue". It could be a book unto itself, eh?
Thank you so much for sharing that story and your experience, it gives me a feeling of strength to read it. To feel like I can have the strength to just stop caring whether she accepts me or not, and hope to conduct myself as a reasonably tactful adult without feeling the need to return her little jabs, and not fester endlessly over how insulted I feel by her behavior...
I will pray to my higher power for whatever it is that I need in order to get over the idea that if I "just do this or that" then she will become accepting of me and be an actual friend. Because, realistically, that will probably either not happen at all, or it will take a very long time. Either way, I don't know if it's even what I need in my life.
