So when my son graduated, my husband asked his mother if she would like to come to my son’s graduation, and she did not want to, and that was okay because she is mean and all that. We didn’t — we were not upset by that.
But when my husband tried to show her pictures of his graduation and a, a few things that went along with his high school graduation, his prom pictures, and that kind of stuff — and this is her youngest grandchild, the baby of all the grandchildren. He said, “Would you like to see the pictures of [Name’s] graduation?” And she — he and I were the only ones with his mother at the time, and she looked at my husband, and she said, “You’re just trying to get me to give him a gift, aren’t you?” And my husband said, “Well, I really don’t care if you give him a gift, it would be nice if you did, but you don’t have to. But we thought you might want to see pictures of his graduation from high school. He did very well. He got some awards. We thought you might like to see some of the pictures.”
“No, you just want a present for him. And you’re just trying to get me to write you a check with money.” And she got up and walked away. And my husband said, “I think that’s the last time I’m gonna do this.” And I looked at my husband, and I said, “I think I’m gonna let you talk to her and deal with her, and I’m gonna go to the car, and we can go home.” And he said, “Yeah, I think it’s time to go home.” And I went to the car — he gave me the keys, I went to the car, and about five minutes later he came back and he said, “We’re done making special trips to see her.”
She died about nine months later. He had visited her several times, but not — I did not visit her again, and I came and helped them clean up her house and all the rest of that. And I did not visit her again, and I did not attend her funeral. My husband didn’t want to go either, but he had to. But, uh — ‘cause they were going to read her will immediately after, and he needed to go to that for his sisters. But I did not go, and I did not feel guilty about it in any way, shape, or form. She was the most cold-blooded person I have ever known.