Dealing with obnoxious in laws
So baby is 6 months of age and my in laws have become increasingly difficult to be around. I don’t enjoy their visits. I’ll list some of the things below as an overview:
- calling me fat twice when pregnant
- one comment that I was only an incubator to them
- passive comments that my weight looked better a few weeks and months after birth
- kissing newborn and baby when hubby specifically said no kissing
- apparently tummy time is pointless
- not on any visit have they helped, we’ve made them drinks and food, including a time when we hadn’t expected them to stay for dinner and I had to make a big dinner. No thanks or appreciation whatsoever. Quite rude.
- Hogging baby and passing comments that they’d always wanted a girl, a third child and will take my daughter home with them.
- insistsing that my mil stay for a week but I didn’t feel comfortable with that (can you guess why? 😅).
- insisting we visit them which is a 3hr trip and very expensive pet holiday care, which we can’t afford.
- Drinking too much alcohol around baby (fil 10+ beers)
Husband is terrible at communicating with them and might only call them for 10 min once a week and they might visit us every 6 weeks. Their visits are difficult for me. I need to stand up and say something because I’ve given up on my husband doing it. At the same time I don’t want to fall out.
Any advice?
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