Daughter prefers overbearing MIl over me
I took a funny picture of my daughter and I sent it in a group chat to my Mother in law, father in law, sister in law, and my husband.
My Mother in law replied
“Oh my poor child. What did you do to my child?”
I exploded.I told my husband that she always over steps and says my daughter is hers. She tells me what not to give my daughter (“Stop giving my little one juice before you make her have diabetes”) what to give her (“start giving her half and half milk so it’s not so much sugar”). how much, how to discipline (she told me “don’t you lay a finger on my child”) , that “we” are no longer using the word “no”, etc. That I need to stop telling my daughter “no” when she does something wrong
I said something as I didn’t like that
So she texted me and said she says that because she sees my daughter as her own daughter. That she loves my daughter as a mother and that my love for her is no different than the way she loves her.
Also when it was brought up this bothered me she said
“Seriously wow 🙄”
“That’s too funny you got upset”
Anyways now my daughter prefers grandma. She only wants to be held by grandma, etc. cries when we leave and of course grandma runs to her and gets her.
I told my husband I needed a break from her because she is getting on my nerves. I just don’t know what to do to get back to a good place with my mother in law.
She texts me every day and says
“How’s my little one?”
“Is my child behaving today?”
“What did she eat?”
(I have stopped replying to those texts)
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