Is my mom right to be upset?
My husband and I are expecting our first baby and we are over the moon. I’m extremely close to my mother in law (my husband and I are high school sweethearts and there were times in my teen age years where I was even closer to his mom than my own). My mom and I are close too though.
Anyway I planned a day trip for my mom & mother in law and I to all go to Amish country where they have a lot of stores, I wanted to find some furniture for my nursery. We planned it a month in advance but the night before my mom called me and said she wouldn’t be able to go anymore.
I told her that’s fine and we could go another time, but my mother in law and I would still be going. My mom got extremely upset and told her she felt left out. I told her I wasn’t going to cancel on my MIL just because she couldn’t come.
Well my MIL and I ended up going and we had a blast, and she helped me pick out a crib and rocking chair. I sent pictures to my mom.
The response I got was not what I was expecting. My mom sent me 10 long messages about how I betrayed her by picking out baby stuff without her. I told her that was the whole point of us going to Amish country. My mom basically told me my MIL can take her place from now on because she feels unwanted. I told my mom we could go shopping this weekend for other baby stuff because I still need a lot more and she said no, forget it, to take my MIL instead.
Is my mom right?
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