It can only be family

My wife loves her Bubby very deeply. Her Bubby thinks my wife loves her because when she sees Bubby, Bubby gives her money.

My wife has spent a lot of energy trying to convince her bubby that it isn't true, and has turned down money to prove her point.

In fact, of all her grandchildren, my wife is the only one who calls on a regular basis to check up on her (she lives alone in manhattan).

So this past week, it came to a bit of a boiling point. Bubby gave all her grandchildren money except my wife. My wife, not knowing that this had happened, did not do anything out of the ordinary.

Bubby, knowing it had happened, kept an eye on my wife to see if she was being treated differently.

Bubby slept in the same room that my kids clothes were. There was another woman sleeping in the room as well. When my wife went in on the first day of Yom Tov, to get clothes for the kids, she saw the other old lady was up and quietly said good morning, so as to not wake up her bubby.

My wife dressed the boys, and passed by the door where her bubby had been sleeping. Bubby was now fully awake, yelling at eem (my wife’s mom) that my wife didn’t say good morning to her because she didn’t give her any money.

She was in quite the pissy mood all morning, and then went into the back room, where she hid out through lunch and refused to come out from until long after lunch. People tried to get her to come out, but she refused, not wanting to spend another minute in the same room as my wife.

(She eventually did emerge. Nature has a way of calling people out of their hideouts.)

So, to recap, my mother in law was upset, due to her extreme co-dependence on Bubby, and not being able to tolerate it when her mother is acting ridiculous. My wife was upset because bubby was being ridiculous. Bubby was upset because her sanity ran out before her body did.

Not to be outdone, the next day, Gramma, my wife’s other grandmother, decided to pick a fight with grandpa, because while gram was trashing my mother in law, grampa was defending her. And since you can’t reason with Gram, she had a little fit of her own.

(In Gram’s defense, instead of hiding in the back room she went into the kitchen and started cooking up a storm.)

She decided that this was the issue that she was going to leave her husband over, but somehow, after not getting the reaction that she wanted, she came back down to earth.
Anyway, I told you that story so I could tell you this one.

My wife was talking Ab (her father) this morning, and asked if Bubby was coming for the last days. Ab said, as a joke, yeah, she is coming as long as you’re not going to be there. My wife thought that was funny and laughed it off.

A few minutes later, Eem walked into the house, got on the phone with my wife, and was having a lovely conversation until someone mentioned Bubby. My father in law heard it, made the same comment about Bubby coming because my wife wasn’t going to there, causing my mother in law to drop the phone and burst into tears.

Anyway, lets do that math.

Bubby is insane.
Gram is insane (although you can’t tell from this story, I can certify that it is true)
Eem is borderline insane (depends on the day)
My wife is still sane. Most days.

Which brings up the real question.

How is this going to effect me?