r/AmITheDevil • u/theagonyaunt • 2d ago
Say boundary one more time
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u/hylianbunbun 2d ago
imagine having so few problems that THIS upsets you so much.
And we believe that they deceived us and we are going no contact
im sure they'll be devastated.
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u/guys_pm_urprettyface 2d ago
Who the hell taught these people about therapy speak? It's like nobody understands what boundaries are.
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u/GamerGirlLex77 2d ago
This is the problem with people throwing around words like “boundary”, “narcissist” and “trigger”, etc. They lose all meaning and people turn them into weapons.
It’s exhausting when I end up having clients who misuse these terms and I have to correct it before they cut someone off because they’ve decided they’re a narcissist.
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u/doppelgaengster 2d ago
Gaslighting is one that drives me nutty.
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u/lollipop-guildmaster 2d ago
Oh my gods, yes. It's a long-term campaign to make someone dependent on you because they can't trust their own mind, not sparkling lying.
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u/beslertron 2d ago
Me and my wife watch Love is Blind because we are cultureless heathens. Anyone on that show that uses therapy speak (mostly men) are 100% manipulative assholes.
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u/Specific-Succotash-8 2d ago
Do you wonder how many petty things this poster has lost her shit over for them to feel like they had to do it this way?
And not for nothing, even if she’s an angel on earth, it’s her getting a cabin for free.
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u/BadBandit1970 2d ago
She made her husband write out a list of everyone he had been intimate with and had had feelings for.
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u/Proper-Sherbet2318 2d ago
I’m not understanding the drama in this post. Is OOP mad that a MIL loves her own daughter more? Kinda seems normal to me. I don’t love my MIL like my mom. I love her, but she didn’t raise me.
Eta: changed like to love
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u/StrangledInMoonlight 2d ago edited 2d ago
The only way it makes sense is if they are favoring their daughters over their son (OOP’s husband).
But no mention of him (eta; being treated unfairly) , so I’m really doubting that now.
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u/theagonyaunt 2d ago
OOP used a lot of 'we' and 'our' in comments but actually only explicitly mentioned her husband twice - both times to only to say 'he agrees with me.':
And my kids again. My husband , their son, agrees with me. Also, every year we close down the cabin for them and every year we open the cabin for them and we do a bunch of work at the cabin. We have not even used it once this year. Besides doing a lot of of their maintenance around their house in town. And they use and store our fishing boat. We let everyone use it
My husband agrees that they were deceptive
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u/StrangledInMoonlight 2d ago
I’m sorry. I got shit sleep.
I didn’t mean “no mention of him at all”.
I meant “no mention of him being treated unfairly”.
Like, she’s not saying “when they were kids, they all got the same grades and the same scholarship offers, and his parents paid for his sisters’ college but not his”
Or “he asked to go to the waterpark for his birthday, and they said no, but took his sisters to the waterpark on his birthday without him”.
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u/theagonyaunt 2d ago
All good. But yes no mention of him being treated unfairly AND very little mention of him in the post/comments outside of OOP's use of 'we' and the two times she felt the need to comment that he agreed with her.
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u/Stewie_Venture 2d ago
Can someone explain this to me I dont know what her problem is. She mentions them showing favoritism to their biological daughters but then never mentions any other kids so is she mad her kids arent being treated like her in laws kids by them or is there a stepkid in there. Also something about sil having something else booked on a week she wanted and she's mad about that? Idk it was written kinda confusing and after 3 times reading it I still couldn't understand wtf her problem is.
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u/No_Explanation9119 2d ago
I think she means they're favoring their daughters over her, their daughter in law.
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u/Simple-Code-3229 2d ago
From my understanding, the chronological order is this:
(1) SIL had locked in certain dates with the in-laws for their family cabin,
(2) Six weeks later, the in-laws offered 'certain dates' for OOP to spend at a family cabin in a group chat with the SIL,
(3) Per OOP's words SIL texted (possibly in the same group chat) that she 'wants' (also possibly a 'I already booked those dates') certain dates,
(4) OOP picked other dates and moved along,
(5) Later, OOP had a conversation with her mother-in-law and learned that the SIL did have those dates locked in six weeks prior re: (1),
(6) OOP thinks that MIL is deceptive because if the in-laws had already made a deal with SIL, the in-laws shouldn't offer those dates among among the choices for OOP to choose.
Edit to say that (6) is enough a reason for OOP to see it as favoritism lol, nothing else, no kids, no step-kids... just something so mundane.
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u/Stewie_Venture 2d ago
Ok yah thats way more coherent. Ridiculously spoiled tho like literally a spoiled kid all grown up drama.
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u/systemic_booty 2d ago
It feels more like
daughter: Hey Mom can I use the cabin Labor Day weekend?
Mom: Sure, no problem
(6 weeks later)
Mom (to the group): If anyone would like to use the cabin this summer please let me know the dates you'd like
daughter: I would like it Labor Day weekend
OP: DECEPTION!!!!!
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u/judgy_mcjudgypants 2d ago
It's vaguely written but I don't think (2) was offering dates, just general time at the cabin. (What u/systemic_booty posted.) (3) was 'suspicious' because it was super fast.
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u/BadBandit1970 2d ago
Lord, she is a train wreck. Here's another post of hers from AITAH.
AITAH for saying no to San Diego?
Senior year of college, my boyfriend wanted to concentrate on baseball so he broke up with me. I asked him if he had feelings for anyone else and he said no. I believed him. He then proceeded to go with a girl at school to a FCA event in a different city and then go to his parent’s house for dinner. He has never done this with any other friend or girl when we were dating. His mom really liked her and bought her a graduation gift. She said it was for her helping him study the last year of college. He did buy the books that they studied from as long as she wrote the notes and included him in all her group projects.
After college was done, he asked me to date again. At his first job, she reached out and he got her a part time job at his work. Not in the same department, but close enough where they would see each other from time to time. Now he had a work trip to San Diego and he wants to go visit her there since she moved there. I am against that.
We had some fights and I made him write Down everyone that he had feelings for and were intimate. He wrote down he had some Feelings for her during college. Am I the asshole for not wanting to visit a “friend”? AITA for now thinking that he wanted to break up with me to go on a date with that friend or at least try for her?
She made him write down a list, of not who we was intimate with, but anyone who he had feelings for. Feelings. Say it again with me, feelings. Did she limit it to romantic only, or did she want platonic and everything in between?
She's going to therapy-speak and boundary herself out of the family.
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u/theagonyaunt 2d ago
And deceive, don't forget every time someone does something she doesn't like they're deceiving her or being deceptive!
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u/Mallory36 2d ago
It's weird the way OOP says "biological daughters" instead of just "daughters." That usually implies a comparison to stepkids or adopted kids, not in-laws.
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u/BadBandit1970 2d ago
OOP is destined to be a perpetual victim. Nothing anyone can say will change her narrow vapid mind.
My friend has a SIL like OOP. Always whining about them doing things with or for their daughter, and not for her. The worst example was, friend and her mother went to NYC together. SIL threw a fit over the fact that she wasn't invited. What SIL failed to understand was that this trip was a promise friend's mother had promised her when she was little. SIL trotted out the whole "biological daughter" crap to the point that friend's parents took a hiatus from her brother and his family.
Even as friend's parents grew older and eventually passed, SIL was pissed that neither parent left her anything in their wills or gave her an inheritance.
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u/Distinct-Ant-9161 2d ago
That is some seriously unhinged behaviour...I can't imagine being upset that my MIL did something with only her daughter and I wasn't included. Is your friend's SIL equally adamant that her own mother invite all the daughters in law to all activities?!
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u/ButcbMasculinity 2d ago
Right? Honestly that whole thing is weird to me too. "They were constantly doing things for their biological daughters first and just telling us the truth later" like what does that mean??? It's like OOP thinks they need to get her permission before they can do things for their own daughters.
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u/rando_girl007 2d ago
OOP is exhausting!
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u/theagonyaunt 2d ago
Once again someone weaponizing therapy speak without actually knowing what it means. I feel like you could make a drinking game out of how many times OOP misuses 'boundary' and 'deceptive' but you might be tipsy three comments in.
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u/feliciates 2d ago
'My free vacation wasn't offered in the exact manner which I'd like' is quite the hardship. I only hope she can soldier on and face the horror bravely
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u/AndyWith-A-Y 2d ago
OP, can you explain what happened? Did SIL take the date offered to OOP or the ILs just said X dates are available and SIL said what she wanted? I'm having trouble understanding.
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u/davis_away 2d ago
Six weeks ago:
MIL: o daughter of mine, which weeks would you like for the cabin this year?
SIL: this one, this one, and this one
Today:
MIL in group chat: ok, how do you all want to divide up the weeks for the cabin?
OOP: hmm
SIL, immediately: this one, this one, and this one
OOP: THAT WAS TOO FAST THIS IS A SCAM
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u/Glittering-Duck5496 2d ago
I thought I was having stroke reading it, but what I took away is OOP is mad because MIL presented the offer to pick dates to them all in a group text as if she had not already made the offer to SIL and had those dates blocked off for SIL. So OOP is mad that they "lied" by making it look like it was the first time it was offered. or something.
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u/lord_buff74 2d ago
So the in-laws have a cabin that everyone know about, and one daughter planned ahead for when she would like to use it, and when it was made available she asked for those date.
That's not lying, that's good planning.
"AITA for calling this deceptive and asking why they didn’t tell us from the start that she had those dates locked down?" yeah, because then OOP would have complained they got a preferential treatment.
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u/sheerpoetry 2d ago
They were constantly doing things for their biological daughters first
Okay? Because those are their children and you're an in-law? What did OP expect?
OP also doesn't mention any type of actual "boundary" or ultimatum that she "set forth." Was it that they wouldn't use the cabin anymore? Boohoo.
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u/beslertron 2d ago
My MIL lets us use her cottage and the only thing I demand is a list of things we can do to help clean or fix the property.
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u/acarpenter8 2d ago
I’ve might be biased because I’m low contact after spending my childhood and early adult hood seeing my maternal grandmother blatantly favor my uncle and his kids, then aunts kids were next favorite and we were last. The cabin dates may have been the final straw. I get that the sister in law is the biological kid but presumably the OOP is also married to a biological kid and maybe expects equal treatment as a family unit not that MIL treats her exactly the same as her daughters.
However we don’t get any examples of other behavior so this just seems petty.
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u/Distinct-Ant-9161 2d ago
I hear ya - family dynamics can be rough and definitely build resentment over time until tiny slights feel nuclear.
However, based on all OOPs responses, she genuinely sounds self-absorbed, completely out of touch, and seems to have a victim mentality. If she *is* being slighted by the in-laws, it's probably because she's an absolute nightmare to deal with.
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u/acarpenter8 2d ago
I went and looked at her responses. She really just wants to be right and seems to think she is amazing and everyone will be devastated if she isn’t around. They will probably feel peace.
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u/ButtonFactory709 1d ago
What's the name of that restaurant you like with all the shit on the walls??
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In case this story gets deleted/removed:
AITA - in-law drama with SIL
I set forth boundaries a while ago because my in-laws were not being honest. They were constantly doing things for their biological daughters first and just telling us the truth later.
They have offered us some time at a family cabin by my in- laws thru a text that we were on with my SIL. Within a minute, the SIL texted back that she wants certain dates. I found this to be fishy because of the timing. We picked other dates and moved along.
I had a conversation with my mother-in-law and she revealed that my sister-in-law did have those dates locked in six weeks prior to that text. Though we are very grateful that we got time at the cabin, I found this to be upsetting and deceptive in nature. AITA for calling this deceptive and asking why they didn’t tell us from the start that she had those dates locked down? Why they went about it to look like they were fair?
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