mothers-in-laws and chopped wedding photographs.
 

What would motivate a mother-in-law to chop the bride off the wedding photographs ?

hatred, jealousy perhaps.
A monster-in-law?:eyebrow:
poor bride. It is better if she and her husband have a house of their own.:worried:

What would motivate her to do that and then let you know about it?

Yes , I think the bride was expected to know about it , Elspode . She walks into the sitting room and automatically looks at all the photos that have always been there . You know the scene , we are talking about glass cases . And yes , she has been chopped off her own wedding photograph . The truncated photograph has been carefully put back into its frame , and then back into the glass case .
What next ?

I think you need more information . Bride= wife . The recently chopped-off bride has been married to the groom in the photograph for eighteen years .

I think that's a question you need to ask the bride, or the MIL, unless the bride or MIL is you? Then, I think you should already know the answer to that.

There's a "your mom" comment here, somewhere...

Mental problems?
Anger management issues?

...takes a pretty sick puppy to cut someone out of photos and then re-DISPLAY them. Obviously, they WANT to be asked. I don't think I'd want to hear the reply.

I imagine it to be starkly symbolic, IE "I cut you out of this picture becasue you cut me out of your life" (translation: you're blocking my attempts to interfere with your personal business, which I percieve as being on the other side of a differently-placed boundary system from an earlier generation)

I can't think of anything that is *good* being behind this action, that's for certain.

We'll all feel bad when we find out she chopped the pic so it could be part of a hand-made birthday present!

It's rather a sick thing to do unless it's buddug's mother-in-law in which case it's totally understandable. :cool:

That's kind of what I was thinking ...:o

Bruce and Limey say that it is perfectly understandable 'if it is 'Buddug's mother-in -law' .

Why do you say that , Bruce and Limey ?

I can't speak for Bruce, but you do get on my nerves and I'd understand it if you got on your mother-in-law's nerves too, so I'd understand if she removed you from the photos but kept the pictures of her son. I was being flippant in a cruel way (or cruel in a flippant way). On a more serious note, I also agree with Hoof-Hearted that the fact that the photos are diplayed like that means that the mother-in-law wants to be asked about it. Does the bride/wife have the gumption to ask her mother-in-law what's up?
As with all posts asking for an interpretation of a third party's actions - the only way to find out is to ask the third party. Even they might not understand why they do what they do, of course.

She is a sick unhappy women and the bride took away her little boy. By cutting her out of the pic she has made a statement that she means nothing to her.

Your comments interested me , for I do not say very much in terms of actual words in real life ; I am very polite of course . I am the product of the British Public School ( my parents tolerated an Australian primary school , but I had to be sent to the United Kingdom at the age of twelve .)

I am a beautiful and silent woman .

cjjulie , I think that the lady is unhappy , but not sick .

In this same glass case , I once saw an extraordinary photograph that had never been there before .

A strong fine man of about forty . Bald and strong with a small beard . He was sitting at an easel , and the photo was taken through a mirror .

I walk into that house and always look at that glass case . That photo shook my entrails , because I felt sexually attracted to that man . This sounds like a separate feeling , but it is not . The man in the photo taken forty years ago looks like the man I love .

I am married to a man who does not know who his father is .

That photograph then disappeared from the glass case . The glass case then explored the idea of me being excluded from my own wedding . The glass case no doubt explores more than I think I know .

Any questions ?

Some questions
 

Perhaps you should speak to your mother in law? Or your husband - did he see that photo? Are you just stringing us along?

Some people are just mean. They don't have the guts to say something with words so they speak with actions.

Yeah, what does the husband have to say about all this?