Salukigirl, I think we have the same inlaws.

Perna and AAAAA, I was thinking later I could have said, "Hey, I can hear you!" Unfortunately, I thought that up too late. I guess it takes me a while to know what I heard. I think it's a survival technique that doesn't work anymore?

Also, I learned from Adult Children of Alcoholics that "we lie when it's just as easy to tell the truth." What's a bummer is that my mother really yelled at me about telling the truth when I was a wee one, so I actually had to learn to lie as an adult. But I do it very reservedly.

I really want to ask my mother in law what morals she was raised with, because she sure doesn't seem to have any. It's really sick and I'm glad they live so far away and we only have to see them a couple times a year.