This is mostly a rant post but also I have no idea what to do or how to feel. Help!

So I just want to preface this by saying that my husband lived with his parents right when we got married because he worked at their precision machine shop that was on the property with the house and we couldn’t afford to move out right away. We tried to move out to be on our own and get away from the drama that surrounded the shop between his older brother and his dad and pay and so called “lack of experience”. He’s three years younger than his brother, that’s the lack of experience they’re talking about 🙄

Years later, after quitting the shop because of a bunch of drama and pay issues and just generally being disrespected on a daily basis. We started building a house and we wanted to sell the house as soon as possible to ensure our finances. We also needed to be somewhat close to the property we were building on to clean it up and keep an eye on the building process which brings us to where we are now. Back at his parents house to save up money while we build. It’s been 7 months and the building is so close to being done but it feels like it’s still so far away.

We have three kids about the same age as his older brothers three kids and everyday it’s something between our families. Our parenting styles are very different.

For example:

They have a no sugar additives, no dye, no natural flavors, no nitrates, no dairy. We aren’t like that and will let our kids have a moderate amount of what they call “bad” food and the kids comment on it enough to my kids to where my kids are very aware about the things they eat. I’ve talked to my kids about it and nutrition before and we eat a lot of the things that they do too and always have and my kids definitely eat more vegetables than theirs do. But the parents, mostly the dad is very adamant that they have the best nutrition and that their kids never get sick and basically that they’re better than us because of the way they’re parenting their kids.

Another example of some of the stuff going on, my middle chicks just had her birthday. And the day we celebrated, the oldest of their kids freaks out because my daughter wouldn’t share her brand new toy that she was playing with. And screams, “She never shares any of her toys! I’m not playing with you ever again!!” To which the parents are like, “that’s not true, she shares with you all the time. But you’re right that isn’t nice that she isn’t sharing her toys.” Like…what?!??

There’s a lot more going on that I could share but I don’t want to make this post too long. I just feel like I’m in the twilight zone or something and I needed to tell someone 😓