Backstory: when we got married, hubby and I were living close to my parents, which is a very expensive area to live. Right after, my hubby got offered a job near where he grew up, which is 6 hours from where we lived. I was unhappy at my job and we moved.

My mother and father flipped out. Saying they was going to disown us, take my car etc etc. I pulled in my godparents and they got my parents to calm down.

Shortly after we moved, I found my dream job in our new city. I’ve been there 5 years. After almost three years of infertility and <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IVF</a>, in May 2021, I gave birth to our daughter. She’s 12 weeks old.

New drama with my mother. She was here all week to see my baby and everything was fine. She gave my baby baths, gave her her bottle, held her as much as she wanted. She kept giving me advice, most of which I listened to, even though much of it was outdated from when I was a child. I’m 32. She’s a bit overbearing but I know she means well.

On her way home, she called me and we were talking about my grandmother who has dementia and is starting to forget things. My mom is her primary caretaker. I was saying, I wanted to visit in early September because as of next week, I’m not on maternity leave.

She got mad because we’re going to my hubby’s summer cottage this weekend. (She encouraged us to go while she was here). It’s like 2 hours away, which is super doable with a newborn, and there’s no one there but us. Anyway, she proceeds to throw this in my face because when we moved I said I would visit all the time, which I did pre-pandemic and being pregnant and having a newborn. I currently live 6 hours away, which is 8 with a baby due to feeding and diaper changes (she’s EBF). I ended up hanging up on her. I’m still upset though.

I know a lot of this is from stress. She’s taking care of my grandmother basically alone, because her sisters don’t help. She’s struggling with work because they laid her off but still have her consulting and she wants to be close to her only grandchild.

I thought this drama was over. She has apologized and even wants to move here. But now she’s back on her bullshit about how we should have stayed, which if we had, we wouldn’t have a house or my daughter because we could have never afforded a house or <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IVF</a>.

I have no idea where to go from here. If anyone actually read this novel, what would you do?