Grandparent Favoritism 🙄 (long)
I just want to know if I’m the only one who is living with the fact that my nieces and nephews (from husband’s siblings) get favored by my husband’s parents over our own child? Side note, we make more trips to see them than any of the other siblings.. we know for a fact that his parents financially support both sisters who are married and have kids 3+ kids each and for some reason, they spend the majority of their time when they are in town with the other grand kids. I have never understood it and as my son gets older, he’s a 1 1/2 right now, it’s becoming more and more obvious.
For example, they have framed pictures of all the other grandkids around their house and JUST made one of our son bc my husband made a comment about it to them. They always make sure to make a long sappy post on FB when they are with the other kids and never once have done the same with us, I just think it’s odd.
I know for a fact his sisters don’t like me, I’m the only white girl in their entire extended Hispanic Family, and it’s never bothered me until recently with this whole grandparents favoritism thing.. I honestly think his sisters don’t want my husband’s parents to like me or spend time with us..
Another example, his parents will come spend ONE night at our house and 4 at his sisters.. and the whole time they are here they are FaceTiming the other kids and grandkids! I don’t understand!! I know I can’t force them to love me and my son but it sure does hurt when it’s as obvious as it has been.. am I the only one who deals with stuff like this? Sorry for being so wordy, I’m just kind of hurt and I can’t really talk to my husband about it because i think it hurts him a ton as well. We just pretend it isn’t happening. I’m just getting to the point of wanting to write the family off and move on.
Let me also add that when they do actually make time to come over, it’s his sisters that are telling their kids to FaceTime his parents the entire time to intentionally take time away from us and my son. Out of all the days in the year, we see them 1/4 of the time they spend with the other kids and we all love pretty close. 👌🏼
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