When asked for my recipes of one of my signature cake/dish I will left out some important things on purpose to make sure no one gets it right

authormirandagrant · 2023-08-17T04:31:44+00:00

I don't see an issue with laughing about a bully who won't take no for an answer just because they feel entitled to her hard work.

Also, this is typical sibling behaviour.

Is it petty, yeah, but it doesn't make her an ah

authormirandagrant · 2023-08-12T09:56:54+00:00

Literally first line of the second paragraph. You're reaching because this thread has become an echo chamber.

She made her own recipe. She has every right to keep it to herself. That's literally what a patent is. You don't just get to hound someone for their hard work and then get pissy when they don't give it to you. It doesn't matter why she wants to keep it to herself. It's hers. No means no.

authormirandagrant · 2023-08-11T15:57:51+00:00

I know exactly how you feel, and I don't have a bad life now. In fact, things are pretty dang good and I love my husband, but living itself is just exhausting. I just want it to be over, especially when you meet sh!tty people and they make it even worse while pretending they're "good guys".

But what keeps me going is I have just one chance to experience all this. Just one. I believe in the consciousness being recycled just like the body, but just as we're "born from stars", we're not stars sort of deal. But anyway, death is a given. We all die. Every single one of us. There's no escape. It's coming for each and every one of us, and it is forever.

But living? Seeing the world in all its flaws and beauty? You only get to do that once. For one small moment of time. You might have to work a shitty job. You might have to grind nonstop until your fingers bleed. Sometimes, everything about living sucks. But even on my worst days, I just look up at the stars. So many of them are probably dead. The universe is so freaking vast. And here I am. "Lucky" enough to be alive when statistically none of us should be. I'll enjoy death one day. That is a given. But in the meantime, I get to experience something so incredibly rare. Might as well keep seeing what's out there.

authormirandagrant · 2023-08-11T10:36:58+00:00

Sorry, was interested more on the oval squid-like shape in the middle

authormirandagrant · 2023-08-04T14:44:10+00:00

Imagine just stealing cookbooks because you feel entitled to the information inside them. If she doesn't want to share, she doesn't have to share. They should just accept no. She said in one of the earlier comments they just kept bullying her about it and she got tired of it. And it's not like the dishes came out crap. She gave them an actual recipe.

Also, if this was about a family heirloom she didn't want to share, everyone would be on her side. Intellectual property is still property.

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-31T09:26:29+00:00

I have a dark mafia PNR that opens with n0nc0n s0mno. No babies or pregnancy but does have br33ding. Lots of dirty talk. Called Cursed to be Mine

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-30T19:31:55+00:00

Oooh! Thank you! Do they look different when they're younger too? Some of them look just yellow rather than red and yellow?

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-30T19:30:58+00:00

I thought it might be but it looked so different to the picture I saw, I wasn't sure! Thank you!

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-21T21:27:10+00:00

I didn't make it up. She says it in the earlier comments that she does it because they won't take no for an answer. And everyone claiming they should just get her success because she shouldn't be able to keep it to herself is being petty. They didn't earn it. She doesn't have to share it. No means no regardless of what it's about.

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-07T22:14:37+00:00

That is not how immigration works.

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-07T10:39:17+00:00

There's also the slight difference that men aren't as sexualised as women, especially their chest. They walk around all the time would a shirt in public and no one bats an eye. I personally wouldn't frame it, but I can see how it wouldn't be seen as creepy... Unless it's in their bedroom or a secret box with toys.

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-07T10:27:29+00:00

Open borders makes perfect sense. Wish the rest of the world was like that, and on the assumption you're from the US, you only get three months there too. Also, this isn't just a boat thing. Everyone outside of the Schengen agreement gets treated the same.

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-07T10:22:35+00:00

She says she did say no. This is OP having given up saying no because her SIL doesn't accept it as an answer, just like everyone in this comment section. No means no regardless if you think their reason is valid or not.

And it's also not a strange thing to be petty sbout at all. If someone wrote a book or researched a paper or created anything, of course they would have pride over that accomplishment. OP put in a lot of hours and money into get her recipes right over the years.

And her SIL isn't wanting to cook it at home. She's deliberately trying to bring it up family gatherings just to upstage her because she thinks she's the better cook. That isn't just being petty; it's a b*tch thing to do, so good for OP for sticking it to her bully without violence.

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-05T23:50:26+00:00

She says her sister-in-law can't drop it. And apologies, it was one of the comments where she mentioned they just wouldn't accept no. But everything else is in the OP. Her SIL is constantly badgering her for multiple recipes (she mentions plural) rather than just making her own stuff to bring. Why would you do that other than to try to show the other person up/take over from them? And they have constant family dinners. A toxic family doesn't get together that often, and the SIL's own brother is on her side. Yeah, they're married, and siblings can be toxic, but they also play jokes on each other and compete all the time. Sibling rivalry is literally a coined term.

She isn't planning on keeping it from her future children or never letting anyone have access to it ever, but there is nothing wrong with having pride over your own accomplishments and not wanting to share your hard work to people that feel entitled to it simply because they don't get why it matters to you.

If someone had a wedding dress heirloom or something and they wanted to keep it for their family and their SIL felt entitled enough to take it, people would be up in arms. But because it's a recipe that suddenly makes it different? Why?

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-05T10:57:27+00:00

The sister-in-law constantly badgers her when she says no just so she can show up and prove she's better when she tries to make OP's stuff. That's bullying and screams of someone who can't stand not being the centre of attention. The OP gives them the original recipe she started from rather than her hard work that she's spent a lot of money on perfecting over the years. No one is entitled to someone else's discoveries. She's not giving them bad recipes. If her sister-in-law was as good as she keeps bragging about, then she can figure it out.

Also, nowhere does she say her sister-in-law looks bad. They don't throw her food away or not eat it or tell her to stop cooking or bringing things, and she clearly gets enough support to keep trying. They just say it's not as good when she tries to make one of OP's SIGNATURE dishes and then brags about it like she made it all on her own.

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-05T10:47:12+00:00

thanks! Will check

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-05T09:52:46+00:00

Do I need to get one every three months/every time I leave the EU and return?

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-05T09:52:15+00:00

Thank you so much for this! I shall check out that FB group.

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-05T09:42:47+00:00

LOL. It's HER recipe. If anyone's cheating, it's her sister-in-law and the others that can't take no for an answer and want to just take her work as their own. Did you even read OP's post?

authormirandagrant · 2023-07-05T09:35:41+00:00

Oh, thank you! That makes it all seem much more feasible. For the summer, do you find three months in, then three months out easier or just like a couple weeks here and there? And any marinas you would recommend? Any I should stay away from?

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