Hello.

My son is currently 9 months old. My husband and I do not live near family, but his family are closer than mine - 2.5 hours away. After my son was born my MIL was chomping at the bit to babysit. On our wedding anniversary my MIL offered to babysit our then 6-month old son so my husband and I could have a night away. I was reluctant to do so, but my husband insisted so I gave in.

Just a little background - my husband has an aunt who lives in the same town as us. She is more or less a hermit, and only calls my husband and when she wants him to do some work around her house. She doesn’t care how we are doing, she is basically just a user.

Anyhow, the Aunt, she has a wound on her leg that hasn’t healed in over 2 years. It’s a deep wound that has to be packed and debrided by doctors frequently. This wound will not heal. So, not knowing why it won’t heal, we have not brought our son to see this Aunt. First of all, who knows what kind of bacteria is in her leg. Second, she doesn’t really care about us, just uses my husband for her yard work when she can get away with it.

So my MIL and FIL watched our son overnight for our anniversary. About a month after we find out that they brought him to her (the Aunt’s) house even though they had instructions to only take him out in case of emergency. They also knew that we did not want to take baby to visit this Aunt, and why. Keep in mind my MiL begged to babysit this night. We didn’t ask, and I didn’t want her to babysit. Also, my MIL was trying to keep the fact that she took my son out to see this Aunt a secret - because she knew we didn’t want him around this Aunt.

When I find out she (MIL) took my son out to this Aunt’s house, I put her in “time out.” We visited her for thanksgiving but didn’t go out of our way to see her in the meantime. She noticed and brought it up to my husband, and he told her why we were avoiding her. The fact that she wanted to keep it secret that she took my son out says it all - she knew we wouldn’t like it but did it anyway.

So now my MIL is playing the victim, saying she is a good person and didn’t do anything wrong. What do you think?

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