Is She a Control Freak or Snotty??

Updated on September 06, 2011
D.D. asks from Goodyear, AZ
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My step-cousin and I have been on again off again through the years. When we were younger we played well. Our families both moved away. We got married and had our babies. She divorced and went out and found herself pregnant with her other two children. I happen to be pregnant too. It was great to have us go through this together. Long story short while she was a single mother my husband and I went and helped her get wood for the winter, and hung out with her during the holidays and birthdays. Her ex-husband came back into their lives, made her quit her job (it was part of the fall out) he started his own business and is making out very well. Yeah!! She has her family back, and he told her to give her baby his last name. She is blessed.
Our children are now 5 yrs old and in kindergarten. We went to dinner at their house last night, bring your own meat. OK I thought that works. In addition to our portion of meat, I brought over some fresh veggies from the garden, peeled them at her house and placed them in one of her bowls. Went and sat down to visit with the rest of the group, and she is like, “Will someone come grate the cheese? Well I had just propped up the recliner chair and could not get it back down. I am trying really hard, she is laughing at me, and he daughter said when I was pregnant I could not get out either. My husband tried it, and said he was afraid to break it, but he got it. The other ladies just sat there and did not say a thing. My cousin ended up grating the cheese. Then my kids were in her son’s room, and they knocked down the blanket off his window. She is like my son can’t sleep with any light what so ever so we place that up there, and your kids just knocked it down. Opps I thought! Then my 5 yr old son asked for a toy they played with last time, and she replied that she put it up. Then she went on at dinner to complain that the neighbor kids were all ways stealing her son’s Disney Cars cars. Then she went on to say she was selling her son’s play set, that was in great shape and getting a wooden one and building a sand box around it. Myself and the other ladies were all happy for her. We went in the house and started watching this J-Lo movie (one where she wants to have a baby and has found out she has twins) got us mommy’s talking about our baby war stories of delivery ect great conversation during the movie. Then her 20 yr old daughter turns it to her Bad Girls show and her mother tells her change it back, but she does not. I just tell my 13 yr old to go outside and tell dad we need to go, while I get your brother and sister. I am thinking wow…what a selfish family.

FYI:
Another time she invited us over for a meal, she asked us to bring something (I can’t remember the item) and she did not hang up. I heard her say, “Oh good I am tired of your dad and I always paying for everything!”

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R.J.

answers from Salt Lake City on

I have to agree with a few of the other moms not understanding the snotty part, was it that she needed a little help in the kitchen, or that she was buying a new play set, Oh the tv thing I get but the rest I am kinda not getting.

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K.R.

answers from Springfield on

You lost me at grated cheese.....

It sounds like you two just need to communicate better.

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J.C.

answers from Columbus on

Sorry, I'm trying to sort out what the snotty part was.

Was it when she asked anyone to help? When she comiserated with you about your trouble getting out of the recliner? Was it just complaining about the neighbor's kids? Or is it the 13 year old not obeying her mother's wishes about the TV?

I really don't mean to be rude, but I don't understand what the big conflict was. Could you narrow it down? Was there a reaction from your step-cousin that led you to believe she was being snotty?

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M.L.

answers from Houston on

It sounds like maybe you are being nitpicky, perhaps from prior experiences. I don't know why it is weird she said the blanket needed to be on the window for her son to sleep when your child knocked it down. She was maybe explaining it to the kids. Why is asking someone to grate the cheese weird? Our family get togethers we help each other in the kitchen. Is she doing these things in a huffy, rude way? It doesn't sound like it. I don't think anything you described was snotty or controlling.

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M.P.

answers from Provo on

Ummm . . .I think you need to word this better. The only thing I understood was the tv station, and then the child would be snotty, not the entire family.

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D.P.

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You kind of lost me at "bring your own meat"! LOL

You know what they say, you can pick your nose and you can pick your friend's nose but you can't pick YOUR FAMILY!

BTW, my vote is for "snotty"!

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D.B.

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L.F.

answers from San Francisco on

I would limit my time as much as I can with them. People that are self-absorbed like your cousin don't change. Make it work for you. Don't try to change them---let it go and spend less time together.

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K..

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Sounds draining. Also sounds like you are having reservations about this relationship. Don't ignore that little voice. If it's not right, it's not right, and maybe the relationship has already served it's purpose.

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