My Mother in law is on my a$$…
My husband and I are struggling to find a place to live. We both make enough to survive, but not enough to rent a house or apartment in our area. We live in a bigger city where rent is astronomical across the board. In the meantime, my husband and my 8 yo son are staying with my in laws. They are both elderly, 72 and 81. Super old school. But it has gotten to the point where I can’t even leave our room to get a glass of water without my MIL ranting to me about the things her son doesn’t that I have tried to help with but he won’t accept my help. So in a way she takes her anger for him out on me. I work from home so sometimes I’ll run down to get some water and she catch me, and keep me there for 15 mins just going off while I have pending tasks to be completed, and later get in trouble for. I can’t go in the kitchen to cook dinner without her hovering and asking a million questions and watching me in a somewhat judgmental way. She is constantly criticizing every move or decision I make. For instance, I’m currently employed but my company isn’t doing so well so my hours have been cut. I’ve been seeking employment elsewhere that will pay me what I deserve. I’ve had 2 job offers. 1 is 30 mins away but with traffic to my commute it’s 1.5 hours to, and 1 hour back. That’s 2+ hours spent on just a commute and time away from my son. Where the other job pays roughly the same and is 10 minutes from my house. Bc the job with the longer commute pays more and is a bigger company, she is pressuring me to take that job, not considering the time I’m wasting in a car that could be spent with my son. She’s pressuring me to think about my future and I’m like “lady this is a job for an electrician… I’m 6 months away from getting my associates degree in criminal justice.” She just truly expects me to be okay with childcare facilities raising my child so I can have a good career opportunity. Which I don’t rock out like that. My child comes first. I’ll work at a gas station to make sure he is okay, bc i DONT matter anymore. HE does. And the most important thing I can give him rn is my presence. On top of that, I have been searching for affordable housing for my husband and I. Yesterday I was on a phone call with a property management group regarding a rental I was interested in. I had an intuitive feeling to shut my bedroom door bc I am a very private person and get uncomfortable if people around me hear me making professional calls. As I went to shut my door, guess who was standing there ease dropping on me? If you guessed my mother in law, you’re correct. I’m got pregnant by my husband and made it to nearly 14 weeks after 2 miscarriages. Finally a healthy baby, when my husband told her she said to him that she would fly me out to another state to have an abortion. Alone. I try to stay locked away in our room but as soon as I exit, she is blowing up on my husband for every move he makes and it’s getting to the point that I can’t handle it anymore. It’s overwhelming, stressful, chaotic, and making me realize that a lot of my husbands issues that effect me, are the result of her failing to be a compassionate mother and verbally abusing him. I don’t know if I should divorce him bc his toxic mother has caused so much stress on us, or if I should stay.
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