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2nd Trimester
grr...overbearing MILs...somewhat long
Why must MILs meddle into everything?!
She needs to stick her nose into EVERYTHING we do! I know it's only going to get worse when the baby comes too. DH is an only child, and we used to live 75 miles away from his parents. This past summer we moved to a small town (where I teach school) a little further away...so now we live a whopping 105 miles away (big change huh?). Every time they drive here we have to hear from her about HOW LONG it took them to get here...how inconvenient it is for her, and how we keep moving further and further away. Hello, guilt trip - get over it. Many people live many many miles from their relatives!
Now she doesn't think we should have the baby shower at our house - because she doesn't think she will want to drive the extra 30 miles to come to the shower. Also, she doesn't think her relatives will drive all this way...jeez, it's only 30 miles more than what it was before!! She drives me crazy!! At least my DH completely understands - he knows she's a little 'off her rocker' and has been for sometime.
Gotta love those mils...
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Re: grr...overbearing MILs...somewhat long
Lol, I live around 600 miles from my MIL and hubbys family, and 2600 miles from my family.
Tell her she should be happy they can still drive out, visit, and drive home in one day.
Aww
My brothers and I both live over 600 from our parents.
We've heard that too...but more than likely they would move closer to us; whenever they bring that up, my husband says "why would move closer? then we'd have to move somewhere further away?" ha ha - like he's kidding...but we both know he's not!
Same issue here.. DH is an only child and my MIL is sooo intrusive and overbaring!
DH got guilt trips since leave home for college which was out of state... also in the military so we live a couple of time zones away. Once we had talked about possible moving to Europe and she FLIPPED THE F@#K OUT!!! How long the plane ride would be... how inconvenient it would be for HER... yada yada yada. There have been so many arguments the first 3 years of our marriage!
As if hubby is going to stifle his career progrssion for her selfish needs! My MIL is a wack job to say the least... arguments over her judgmental intrusion and grudges over the littlest things are sooooo insane and frequent since getting married. Now we keep contact to a minimum after the big blowup 2 years ago.
Poor hubby kept trying for the longest time to keep the peace but after some counseling, he came to see how NOT normal she is and that we have to enforce boundaries to not alow her crazy inrusion slowy errode our marriage. Who the hell knows why MILs go insane!?!