azviolet2003
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a rant on the phone? I speak to my father-in-law on the phone about once a week. Sometimes, in the middle of a topic, he will randomly bring up one of the subjects that he is passionate about. Sometimes it is forgivenesss of your parents in general, or his beliefs about family etc. He can sometimes go on about it and sometimes raises his voice, as well as demanding that I forgive my own father (he doesnt know our painful history) etc etc. Today I told my spouse that I spoke with her dad today and among the positive things I said about the conversation, I also told her that he sometimes "rants" about certain topics. I didnt say it (or mean it) in a disrespectful way at all. But she said it was hard to hear it, and that she doesnt think she would use that would to describe conversations with MY mother (my mom doesnt do that anyway). She seemed offended about it. Is she over-reacting? I didnt feel like it was a bad thing to describe it the way I did. thx for the opinions.