- in-laws... 

The conversation started on the wrong foot for me

When she said, "I've been made to feel..."

Speaking to the both of us about how we're

Not involved enough with her unreasonable wishes.

I, a new member of the family, couldn't sit idly by,

And not instantly reply, "What do you mean you've

Been made to feel?", clearly not accepting we did

Anything to make it happen.  And that stunned her.

And she blubbered something to the effect that

It's just an expression I wouldn't understand

Because I'm French - it's something they say.

I don't know, "I've been made" implies strongly

That we did something to provoke an emotion,

And since she was complaining, the implication

Was obvious that she was dissatisfied we didn't

Jump through her hoops and loops to make her happy.

Clearly unsettled that I didn't sit idly by as she's used to,

I looked at her - and from what I'm told, my face 

Speaks volumes - and she did what she mustn't have done

In decades : she shut the hell up.  Not happy, but finally quiet.