Need to get some things off my chest...

I don't normally post more than once in a day...or even in a week, but I feel compelled to do it because I have nowhere else to vent.....

My topic of choice today is family and "friends"...

1) FAMILY- Mine is not always the easiest to deal with- they are dysfunctional, difficult and dynamic. I have a hard relationship with my mother, my mother in law and my sister in law. My mother in law (MIL) is extremely pushy - the classic Jewish mother. She puts her 2 cents in on every topic imaginable and annoys me to the point that I wish that she would just disappear into the cosmos never to be seen again. The other day, she said that I should "stop starving the baby and start feeding him real food already." This is because she does not support my breastfeeding my son. She seems threatened by that for some odd reason. The woman is making me hate being married to my husband, because I have to deal with her! She makes me miserable, bottom line. This post would be 2 miles long if I detailed everything she has done to make me miserable since I had my son. So in the interest of length, I will leave it at that. Now on to my Mom. She's pushy too- a classic Italian mom... and she makes me insane also. She doesn't drive, but has taken me on more guilt trips than any Jewish mother could inflict on a child. She has mental issues (anxiety, depression, claustrophobia and social anxiety) that she has never sought help for and never intends to. Thus, she tortures her family as a result. It's always been hard for me to deal with her..she has been hypercritical of me from birth, I often think that she harbors resentment towards me for being born. I always say that she hates me, and I think there is some truth to it, even though she would never admit to it. And finally, my sister in law. The one in question is the one married to my brother, not my husband's sister (that one is another issue- she's just plain bizarre, but harmless.) This SIL is quite a piece of work. She has issues with attention..she MUST have 100% attention of everyone in the room or she is miserable. She likes to make mountains out of molehills and create drama where there isn't any. Case in point: Last nite we all went out to a Chinese buffet (not my choice, I would have rather stayed at home.)
Hubby was taking pics of all the grandkids, as we were all together in one place and that doesn't often happen. Now, let me preface this by saying that I know that Hubby's comment was dumb, but he was not being malicious about it- this was the comment... as he showed a pic of my sister's 2 kids with my baby to my mom, he said, "Look, here's a picture of your 3 favorite grandchildren!" He said it in a joking way, and meant it to be a joke, he didn't mean that literally. My SIL apparently was really bothered by it, because this morning she posted a cryptic status message on Facebook something to the effect "I wish people would think before they speak, I'd like to put my foot in their mouth!" I of course was puzzled about it, but called my Mom today to ask if she knew if SIL was on the rampage about something...and she said that she bets it was my Hubby's remark. Lovely. Now I have to deal with the drama that will ensue from this. Because SIL posted that status message, she is prompting people to ask what's wrong, and then she will continue her passive aggressive assault on me and Hubby and play the victim. Oh Boo Hoo...her children not being labeled favorites (which I can assure anyone reading this that her girls ARE favorites of my Mom's, especially since they live next door- Mom always denies the favoritism, but it's obvious.) She is looking for MORE attention..it's ALWAYS about HER. ALWAYS.

2) "FRIENDS"- I put the word in quotes because in my life, I do not have many real friends. In fact, people that I thought were my friends later showed themselves not to be friends at all. I can count 1 person as a true friend, and she lives an hour away from me and I don't get to see her much. My other "friend" Shell, has recently proved that she is not my friend after all....I have known her for 20 years, but there was always a conditional friendship there...I'll be your friend IF there is nothing else going on that I deem more important. I am disappointed in her...I really believed that she grew out of the immature "blowing off" of friends. I guess people never change. I am still annoyed about B and being blown off for my baby shower...she never called me when the baby was born, and never sent a gift either. Very rude .

I guess I am rambling now. I don't enjoy this kind of aggravation..I'm glad that I got that off my chest. :)

That's it and that's all!