So my mother in law is pretty supportive and I generally like her, in small doses anyway. She is extremely sensitive though and acts like everything revolves around her. She loves to entertain at her house. She’s very generous and a lot of people take advantage of her in that sense, which I would never do. If anyone asked her she would do anything they asked. But, she’s also very sensitive and most people feel like they have to walk on eggshells around her because when she gets mad she blows up and causes a huge scene. I’m very independent and headstrong and I like to do my things my way, so I pretty much just go along for the ride and don’t question her. HOWEVER, I’m due any day now with our first baby. I’m a very private person and I like my space. Pregnancy hormones also have made me have a very short fuse lately and my patience is nearly nonexistent. My husband, his parents, and myself are all in a group text together and every morning MIL is on there wanting to know if there are any updates with the baby. I get that she’s excited, but my goodness I need some space. It seems like everybody and their brother wants to impose themselves wanting updates about the baby and maybe it’s because she constantly asks and makes suggestions to get labor started, idk. It just really bothers me. So I asked my husband to referee the conversation and let me be. I’m tired of people stressing me out. So he responded with this:

“As far as the progress goes it’s been so up and down these past couple weeks that we’ve pretty much just decided it’ll happen when she’s ready to come so we’re trying not to think about it until it happens.”

I feel like he did a good job and this shouldn’t have offended her but she got butthurt about it and is now mad at us, which then makes me feel bad. What the heck. #facepalm In addition to the current problem, she’s probably gonna lose her mind when we tell her not to come visit the newborn for a few weeks. Not even remotely looking forward to that conversation.