Lol at 'It's mine.' And that friend who took all the gifts at the white elephant, oh boy. I hate it when I introduce someone to a group and they do something like that.

Many of the bullet points in that toxic checklist are all too familiar. I don't think there's any hope of a reasonable conversation about the gift interception and it's really a minor aggravation compared to the other stuff she does, like poisoning my relationships with other relatives or finding out what my plans are and showing up even when she is not invited or wanted. It was just so weird last weekend. My relative is physically in the process of handing a book into my hand and my mother rushes from across the room to take it. The book was related to my father's family history. My parents have been divorced for 20+ years. Why would she want that or think it was for her?

Now that I think about it, she was also complaining about the gift I gave her for Christmas at the dinner, multiple times. I need to book something out of town for Mother's Day and be thankful there isn't any reason for another family get together until August. She's always threatening to move to another state, wish she would act on it.