Don’t Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Bitchin’

My former mother-in-law was only happy when she was complaining

Older lady with grey hair on the telephone — Image by Sabine van Erp from Pixabay

“God won’t love the baby, but we’ll love him anyway.”

It should have been warning of things to come, of a rocky relationship with my future mother-in-law — Grandma B. But, I assumed once we were married, things would settle.

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