Overbearing “Helping” Family Members

Stacy

Be given birth a little over a week ago and was lucky enough to have my family be there for me afterwards. When I mean family, I mean around 5 people. Two which have constantly been over and have been somewhat insensitive to me. I have heightened anxiety, baby blues and I don’t think anyone around me gets it other than my boyfriend, which now has returned to work. He feels that they’ve been hindering us, making life more stressful and less helpful than if we were to do everything ourselves. I have to agree with him. They’ve pushed my buttons, given me countless unwanted opinions and advice, hard for me to get some sleep, made me feel like I’m crazy, and had some necessary drama. Mind you that my birth was extremely rough and traumatic too.

I want to tell them that we don’t need their “help” anymore but they were planning to stay another week. I know that if I ask this of them they will make more drama out of it saying that im ungrateful or something along the lines.

How should I tell them?