I will try again. I write a paper letter,
not an email. I do not send them an email because
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I want it to take longer for them to respond
because I really truly do not want to deal with this – I can’t figure Doris out
– is she nice or is she not nice? What do I do about a future mother in law who
sometimes is nice to me and sometimes is not but who I will have to deal with
until she dies if I marry Primo? And
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Remember how Sly and Doris like to forward
emails to everyone else in the family and BCC everyone on everything? I don't
need everyone else to be in my business. Except for you guys, of course. I
don’t mind if strangers are in my business. I just don’t want people I know who
don’t like me to be in my business.
Dear Sly and Doris,
It really bothers me
that we have such a horrible relationship. This is not how I wanted things to
work out. I don't want to be estranged from the parents of my husband to be.
It's a loss for me and it's hard on Primo - he's caught in the middle and it
causes him a lot of pain.
I don't know how we
got off on the wrong foot. I wish we hadn't. I am truly sorry for anything I
might have done to cause this rift.
The three of us have
something in common: we love Primo and we want him to be happy. What can I do
to repair our relationship?
Goldie
This letter is completely true. It does bother me. I do want
a better relationship with my future in-laws if for no other reason is it would
make my life easier.
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Elephant stables are not
easy to clean.
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I also felt pretty good about apologizing because truly, I do
not think I have not done anything wrong.
I have nothing to apologize for.
And even if I did, I wouldn’t mind apologizing. I am not in
the business of deliberately hurting people. If I have done something that
offends them, I want to know so I can fix it. I don’t want to be enemies with
my boyfriend’s parents. If I have done wrong (other than eating bacon wrong), I
need to know what it is so I can repent and earn the forgiveness I crave.
What I do not say but what of course you guys all know is
that I want future in-laws who are nice, reasonable people. Until Sly and
Doris, I had always gotten along with my boyfriends' families.
Sly and Doris are the first ones to hate me. They hated Primo's
first wife.
Who is the X here?
I write the letter to get them off Primo's back. If I have
to write a letter twice a month to them to get them to stop complaining to Primo
about me, that's fine. I will do it.
I also want to see what they will say once the ball is in
their court. What did I done wrong? What feats will I have to do to? Will I
have to clean the stables? Will I have to slay the lion? Or will ten rosaries
be enough? I am a curious person.
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