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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

BTW, this could be an intentional thing to try and convince you to move back to the local area.

There's that one famous Reddit story recently about someone who's family went as far as not telling her about a major funeral and then gaslighting her when she realized and didn't drop the issue.

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Here's one for you. I would absolutely swear I talked to my second cousin Wilfred at my grandmothers funeral, for ten or twenty minutes, got all caught up. A year later, mom mentions something in passing about Wilfreds' funeral. I ask what happened, and that's when I learn Wilfred died 5 years before of pneumonia, and was buried in that sane cemetery. I has been living on the coast and no one told me.

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I never saw that one - do you have a link?

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Dude that's wild. My mother in law is kinda like that but doesn't last that long. She usually gives up on the ignoring after about a month or two. Last year we got to do our own thing for July 4th because she got mad at us for having a scheduling conflict for an event she didn't bother to tell us she had voluntold us to help out at. She didn't tell us about it, and we had prepurchased Renaissance Faire tickets and a hotel near the faire