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June 2013 Moms
jennOK
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Family drama (Long)
jennOK
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As usual it was family drama on another holiday with my husband's family. We had Easter with them this weekend, spent the night Saturday and church/family dinner today.
It seems like every holiday with them there is a fight. It always involves my MIL. It varies who she is fighting with, sometimes FIL or my husband or her other son. All I know is people are always unhappy and yelling.
Well, today after church MIL wanted to take family pictures. I won't get into all of it, but she got really annoying about posing. Then got defensive when my husband didn't want to sit on this dirty bench she wanted us to pose on in our nice clothes.
She started griping about how she never gets family pictures and started harping about how we didn't get to a cousin's wedding early enough 3 weeks earlier because she had wanted to do family photos then, and we ruined that for her.
(Um, hello it wasn't our wedding or our photographer. Yeah, she wanted their wedding photographer to take our family photos while we were there. We weren't supposed to be hogging his time for OUR family pictures. He was there for the bride and groom. I had no idea this had been her plan or she was upset about it.)
Anyway, hubby walked away like he usually does when she starts acting this way. This makes her even madder. She follows him into the room where I now am with LO, and they start fighting there.
I had enough. I had to treat them like I do my kids at school since that's how they were acting, like children. I used a calm but very stern voice and told them I had enough. That they were acting rediculous and my child would not be exposed to this. I didn't put up with this kind of behavior and would not anymore. I'm sick of it.
My MIL looked like she had been slapped. She turned and immediately left the room. I stayed in there and talked to my husband, talking to him about his part in the ordeal and inappropriate reactions. After a cooling down period, I sent him out to apologize to his mother for his part in the incident.
My MIL tried to talk to me later. She tried to smooth things over, saying she just gets so angry. Well, she needs to get some anger management therapy then because this mama isn't going to expose her child to this level of disfunctional family anymore.
It seems like every holiday with them there is a fight. It always involves my MIL. It varies who she is fighting with, sometimes FIL or my husband or her other son. All I know is people are always unhappy and yelling.
Well, today after church MIL wanted to take family pictures. I won't get into all of it, but she got really annoying about posing. Then got defensive when my husband didn't want to sit on this dirty bench she wanted us to pose on in our nice clothes.
She started griping about how she never gets family pictures and started harping about how we didn't get to a cousin's wedding early enough 3 weeks earlier because she had wanted to do family photos then, and we ruined that for her.
(Um, hello it wasn't our wedding or our photographer. Yeah, she wanted their wedding photographer to take our family photos while we were there. We weren't supposed to be hogging his time for OUR family pictures. He was there for the bride and groom. I had no idea this had been her plan or she was upset about it.)
Anyway, hubby walked away like he usually does when she starts acting this way. This makes her even madder. She follows him into the room where I now am with LO, and they start fighting there.
I had enough. I had to treat them like I do my kids at school since that's how they were acting, like children. I used a calm but very stern voice and told them I had enough. That they were acting rediculous and my child would not be exposed to this. I didn't put up with this kind of behavior and would not anymore. I'm sick of it.
My MIL looked like she had been slapped. She turned and immediately left the room. I stayed in there and talked to my husband, talking to him about his part in the ordeal and inappropriate reactions. After a cooling down period, I sent him out to apologize to his mother for his part in the incident.
My MIL tried to talk to me later. She tried to smooth things over, saying she just gets so angry. Well, she needs to get some anger management therapy then because this mama isn't going to expose her child to this level of disfunctional family anymore.
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