*wants to vomit*

[skoosiepants]

My mom just called and talked to J's mom and for some reason I find that highly unsettling. J's mom thinks I'm very quiet. OMG, I'm too quiet. Me! It's SO TRUE. I'm horrible with real people. Like a robot, only less charismatic. I've known these folks for three years, and I can hardly hold a conversation with them. I'm such a freak.

My brother's fiance and my mom are like best buds or something, and I can't even be alone with J's mom or I start sweating.

So none of this matters, of course, except I'm going to have to somehow involve his mom in all the wedding planning, and it's like agonizing just thinking about picking up the phone.

I keep thinking they hate me behind my back, and J doesn't help because he thinks my fears are hilarious and often says that they DO hate me, and then laughs, because he's evil and I hate him. So does anyone have any in-law stories to help me feel not quite so freakish?

I'm going to worry about this all night.

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[exegesis.livejournal.com]

I have the problem wherein I have a permanently blocked nose and I am a small person. Consequently I have a kind of squeaky, nasally voice. The problem with the eventual inlaws lied in that they are both schoolteachers. His dad, not so bad. His mother - EVERY TIME I talk to her on the phone, she talks back to me like I'm four. She doesn't do this when we are in person (not always, anyway) so I assume that she just hears the higher pitched voice and regresses back to the classroom. But do you know how galling it is, at the age of 25, to be spoken to like a four year old? Seriously, each time I want to stab her with a fork.

Childishly, I get revenge by calling her by her first name continuously, which always throws her. ;-)

Seriously, hon, remember, it's YOUR wedding and his parents are just minor inconveniences. It may turn out that they are as shy as you are around them, and so they just come across as standoffish - maybe that's how you seem to them too. Sometimes shy people seem snobby rather than shy. Plus, remember, you may never win with them - after all, you're taking their little boy away!

[skoosiepants.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that would serously bug me. And I wish I had enough courage to call her by her first name. I actually think she'd like it, though :)

Sometimes shy people seem snobby rather than shy. I'm constantly afraid that's what people think of me!