"You'll never be a skinny, little girl"

What inspires you to stay on track?

I went to visit my mother-in-law last weekend. We always discuss diet. How beautiful my sister-in-law is....and she is. How my mother-in-law cared at one time, but doesn't any more. This time we started talking about diet and I said I have rejoined Weight Watchers. That is when she said it....


"Mary, you will never be a skinny, little girl!"


Huh?!


That took me off guard. My mouth fell open. I said, "I'm not trying to be a 'skinny, little girl', I'm trying to get to my healthy weight range." I then walked into the bathroom, shut the door, looked into the mirror and said, "I'll show you!!" Anorexia, here I come!! Not really, I like to eat too much for that.


Who does she think she is?!?


I know who she is. She is the most hurtful woman I have ever met. She hates me. She is very jealous of me and the time I spend with Rod. How completely weird and twisted is that!?!


Rod had her on speaker phone one day while calling to see how she was doing. He told her he just mowed the yard, and picked produce in the garden. She said, "Did you have any help?" Like I was sitting in the house eating bon-bons. Of course, my mouth fell open and I turned from my chores in the kitchen and looked at him. He immediately took her off speaker phone and went out on the deck to talk to her.


She has told me that she has the cutes picture of Rod when he was little, dressed in a cowboy outfit. I have one of me dressed in a cowgirl outfit. I said, "I would love to have that picture." Thinking how cute it would be to put the two pictures on the wall together. She looked me up and down like I was a piece of trash and said, "Why would I give it to you, so you can just leave him and take it with you?" Seventeen years later, I still don't have the picture. Oh, did I mention she said this in front of about 25 people?

She is a bitter, hateful, deceitful, woman....and she is my mother-in-law. Yikes.

This makes me know, I do not want to ever be like her.