It’s not abnormal to hear stories about people falling out with their in-laws.
I mean, some of the stories you hear about wives going to war with their mothers-in-law over their husbands/sons is crazy.
And one post on scheming website Mumsnet is no exception.
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In all fairness to the poor lady, her mother-in-law (MIL) sounds like a complete nightmare.
Her post on the website details that despite suffering from PostNatal Depression (PND), her MIL still wouldn’t play ball.
In fact, the opposite. She insisted on being extremely difficult and doing things her way.
You just knew from the first line, that this is a lady in dire need of help.
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She wrote: “I am struggling with my MIL so much!! We had our first baby in lockdown last year and sadly that meant she couldn’t see much of our son for the first 6 months.
“We were limited to walks only and despite telling us she missed him constantly here are some reasons she cancelled walks on me (please keep in mind her husband was WFH at the time).
“1. The carpenter is coming. 2. I have to move some logs. 3. The gardener has lit a fire and I can’t leave it. 4. The electrician is coming. This was all after I had been diagnosed with PND too!!”
But now life is slowly returning to some form of normality, you’d imagine that the demon MIL may have eased up a little bit.
You thought wrong. If anything, things have gotten worse.
The frustrated mum continued: “So fast forward to present day and no lockdowns and all that missed time. Have we ever been invited over for dinner? No!!! She claws at my son and tries to take over every time I see her.
“She even takes him out of the room away from me when he gets upset at being taken by her. He’s very attached to me after spending 6 months in lockdown with just me while his Dad was at work. I’m now back working PT and she very very generously offered to have my son 1.5 days a week.
“This is amazing BUT she ignores my every request. She doesn’t feed him when I ask, she refuses to put him down for a sleep when I say he needs to nap.
“He comes home covered in food and stains despite us asking a million times to use bibs and try and keep him as neat as possible. He drinks 4 x 5oz bottles a day for us at home, with her she struggles to get 1oz down him. So he’s missing out on 8oz of milk a day on the days he goes to her.
“Every little noise my son makes she’s rocking him to to sleep! He’s nearly 10 months old and she knows he has 2 naps a day, yet I pick him up and most days he’s had 4 sleeps with her!”
And for the final blow: “It is causing a real rift between me and my partner.”
Nightmare!
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