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I turned 48 on Friday and yesterday my mother in law put me down again and it hurt 😞

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I was taken out for my birthday yesterday with my husband his mom and dad! It was nice until his mom once again started in on me and embarrassed me in the restaurant and I just thought to myself. She humiliated me at my bachelorette party and before we get married she said β€œ my son better not have to pay for your meds?”! Well I told her that I was on a disability, but your son makes too much money and they took my disability away and I gave up all my money as I love my husband so much he helped me through that and has loved me so much and between our coverages my meds aren’t all covered but we only pay $52 a month and his mom is very wealthy and she thinks I am not good enough and will always put me down and I cried so hard last night. I lost 14 pounds got blood sugars under control and docs put me on Toradol an anti inflammatory pain medicine Dentists use it well the medicine is helping and I still exercising D. D. P. Yoga Chair Warrior workout my ankles are like balloons and my bottoms of my feet swell my Neuropathy my right hand goes numb more and more. Hard to get dressed, do hair and makeup and I sit on a stool to cook or wash dishes as I work around my illnesses with what my body needs. Plus on Friday when I saw both my pain doc and g.p. I was crying so hard in pain my pain doc helped me and prayed with me as we’re both Christians and my gp by the time I got there the pain was torture as my hip went out in my sleep and my kidney was so painful, but new med is working into my system and I only take it as needed. I love life and it’s so precious and beautiful and we have enough problems we don’t need put downs and I love her, but the constant put downs, negative comments after she tells me she loves me and then hurts me. I am not going to allow anyone make me feel bad for being sick as we can’t help that and my husband’s Dad says I was the best thing that happened to my son and he’s always positive and I love both of his parents and I wish his mom to be better towards me. I am just going forward and I will stay positive and give lots of love and hugs πŸ€— and positivity and prayers for all amen πŸ™

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H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y

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Congratulations on your 48 th birthday sweetie.

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I’m glad you got to celebrate your special day with dining out but sooo sorry your mom in law spoiled it for you. πŸ€—

I’m a born again Christian myself. I understand this hurt as my hubby’s mom didn’t approve of me marrying him either. She feared I would become an alcoholic/drug addict like my mother. We barely had contact for the first 16 months of my marriage. Then my hubby was drafted into the Vietnam war. We had to move out of our home and in with his parents. We all lived together at his parents for one month then my hubby left for the Army leaving me with my little boy living there without him too. That turned out to be a blessing for me as my mother in law eventually became my Mom. We grew so very close and have remained this way to this very day.

I’m sooo very sorry this isn’t your story too. Is there anyway that you can talk to your hubby and ask him to tell his mother not to treat you this way???

I have just prayed for you about this bad treatment and trusting Him that He will resolve this for you.

In the meantime continue to treat her with respect and loving kindness. Tell her that you love her. Don’t react negatively to her bad treatment of you and let Him take care of her bad behavior.

You are absolutely right when we get sick it isn’t by choice. We must live our lives to the best of our ability working around our limitations and cope the best that we can.

I’m so glad your doctor is a Christian too. This is such a blessing that many of us do NOT have.

Maybe your doctor could prescribe you some antidepressants to help you get through this difficult time and give you the added boost needed to cope until you’re better.

I pray that everything will be better soon dear.

You take care and abundant blessings sweetie.

Love you EJ

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franklin1970 in reply to honeybug

Awe honeybug your an inspirational soul and positive friend. I am always nice to his mom and I always tell her I love her and give her a hug and his dad and I do love her very much she just she’s never really approve the release my gosh I couldn’t even imagine your situation that’s even worse by the positive shit that came out of that is that she became a mother to you and that’s a beautiful thing I my hope is one day his mom will learn not to judge me my husband has talk to her she does it to everybody and my husband so upset with his mom because she’s done this in the past to him I guess and he disowned her once before and that is not what I want and he’s so angry my husband and hurt that his mom is doing this to me that he sad we won’t see her and I said that’s not fair to you your mom your dad or your family I can handle your mom I have for years now and just told him that I love her I don’t want him to do that so I said don’t say anything to her if you’re going to disown her but he has spoken to her a few times and she’s a really awesome lady and I do love her so much and she has been kind to me but she tells me she loves me and then all of a sudden she’ll bring up something like , the fact I can’t work I’m sick and it’s a burden on him And stuff like that and that’s when it really hurts. I pray to the Lord every day I pray for all of you on here and I pray for people to realize they need to think before they speak and also to be forgiving and I have been for years with her and still will be but if she if she’s going to be negative to me I need to be able to be prepared for that as she caught me off guard on Friday and I am ok πŸ‘Œ now. I am on Pristiq for depression and I on clonazepam from my PTSD. I will keep praying πŸ™ God bless you amen πŸ™ honeybug and prayers to all and love ❀️ and hugs πŸ€— sent your way always.

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honeybug in reply to franklin1970

Bless your little heart ❀️. It’s a shame that she’s acting this way. She’s got deep problems with something in her past to treat everyone like that. It’s also a trial to test your faith too.

It took my a very long time to learn that myself. I always took all the bullying abuse misuse personally until I learned that we are tested constantly to see how strong our faith is. I remember to be steadfast and not let it wreck me like it used too.

When my Mom was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and our Poppa developed a terminal brain bleed from a fall in his garage a friend of his came over and was trying to get Mom to let him babysit her while hubby and I went to stay with Poppa for a while at the ICU. Poppa’s friend said I was uglier than him...that jolted through me. It rang in my ears for months. Then the lesson learned is to love others regardless of how badly they treat you. When Poppa passed I allowed him and his wife to ride with our family in the funeral limousine.

It isn’t always easy to forgive or forget the wrongs against us but steadfast faith will enable us.

I’m sure this poor treatment has taxed your health issues. I know it always does mine.

My dad is so bitter and negative. He has had a hard lifetime of things. He really had gotten worse since mother passed 20 years ago. He is so miserable without her that he lashes out at everybody especially family..my brother getting the brunt of it.

We all are in bad health. My brother can’t take much of it these days. He’s battling lung cancer and 2 other deadly lung diseases and despite dad knowing this he still unloads direct fire at him regardless.

I wish others understood what it’s like to have multiple chronic conditions and how stress makes them worse.

I pray that there will be a breakthrough for you to reach her and she’ll stop mistreating you this way.

Please take care dear franklin and remember that when things are tough that I love you just the way you are.

EJ. πŸ˜ŠπŸŒΈπŸŒΏπŸ¦‹πŸ™πŸ€—πŸ’—πŸ₯°πŸŒˆπŸ•ŠπŸ˜‡

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I have had people put me down and all it does is hurt and lower my self esteem. Not any more! She has no right to talk to you that way and I bet she would not accept that from you. I know you do not want to cause bad feelings but I would not even have answered and just walked away. The next time you see her act as if nothing has happened and if she does it again ask your husband to step in as it is his mother! I am truly sorry this has happened to you but this is not your problem it is hers! Big hugs xxxx

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franklin1970 in reply to Karjade

Awe Karjade ty as yes my husband has talked to her her dad her daughter as they’ve all seen it. Next time it happens I will be polite and just remove myself from the situation then I won’t get hurt.

Yes we’ve all been put down in many ways and we get hurt 😞 as we are all just trying to stay positive and happy πŸ˜ƒ and making the most of every precious day, moments and enjoying life as best we can.

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Ty granny be. We all have been in these situations and we are all sick and need support positivity and compassion and to be heard instead of ignoring us when they don’t understand why the Docs can’t help us etc. I am so blessed I pray for my mother in law to be blessed with happiness and positivity and love as I do all of you amen πŸ™ πŸ˜‡πŸ˜‡πŸ˜‡πŸ˜‡πŸ˜‡πŸ˜ŠπŸ˜ŠπŸ˜ŠπŸ˜ŠπŸ˜ŠπŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™πŸ˜‡