AITA… Mother-in-law not respecting my decision
So for context I live in Canada and when I was in the twenties I made some bad decisions which resulted in me having a criminal record.
My in-laws travel to Arizona and live there for six months out of the year to get away from the Canadian winter. They have voiced on numerous occasions (I should say my mother-in-law has) that they want my daughter and my husband to come to Arizona (I can’t go due to the criminal record). The first time they brought this up, I respectfully told them I’m not comfortable with this. Not because I don’t trust my husband with our daughter but the main reason is because if anything bad were to happen and she got seriously hurt or if they all were in a car accident for example, I would not be able to get to my daughter and be with her. I thought that my mother-in-law would understand this and respect my decision, but she keeps bringing it up and she will ask my daughter if she wants to come and talk to her about it as if she is for sure going. Like they were just FaceTiming and my mother-in-law says to my daughter, “Addie, you need to get a passport so you can come to Arizona and swim in the pool everyday.” My daughter immediately said no because mommy can’t come (she also has some pretty bad separation anxiety and has to go everywhere I do) but her nanny keeps trying to convince her, even though I have said she can’t.
Im just feeling pretty disrespected at this point and it has me wondering, is my reasoning not reasonable. AITA for not wanting my daughter to go to Arizona without me to visit her grandparents. I should add that when they are home we go visit them and Vise versa a few times a month as well as she goes and stays with them for three days by herself in the summer so they see her lots when they are home.
Edit: I should have been more specific. They want her to come for a week not the whole 6 months.
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