My mother in law is driving me insane! She's acting like such a princess. Everything that happens to her is the end of the world. The mail came late...whine on the phone for 3 hours. she has a hangnail....call the national guard.

She doesn't eat right and got stopped up and ended in the hospital...again....

I get so I angry I want to yell.."try having a real problem lady. Try struggling with mental illness for 60 years!"

But then I think, hmmm, she's elderly and lonely and maybe she is nervous or depressed. We tried talking to her about this but she insists that because she is old she has a right to be cranky and demanding.

I'm frustrated because if she was MY mother I would drag her to the doctor and insist that we at least discuss the issue. But my husband and her other son aren't on the same page. Oh God I'm tired of this.