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Originally Posted by RachelandSadie  my FIL and MIL both do lots and lots of things and they never consider me or my feelings or opinions. just the other day i had dh ask them to please not bring my gifts into their smoke infested house from my SIL who mailed it to them. the FIL says ok and then guess what my presents were on their table inside when i went to collect them....thank God they somehow stayed smoke free from the wrapping paper protecting them, but still!!! they expect me to like all the useless CRAP they give me and it's almost always cheap thrift store crap. my SIL for her first child got a pack n play that i had my other SIL and MIL go in with me on. What did i get from my MIL for gifts?? a cross stitched plaque that looked 100 years old all about how great grandparents are and a couple smoke infested books. thanks a lot. she wasn't even going to come because she all of a sudden doesn't believe in baby showers 
anyways sorry to make this about me. just letting you know i feel ya on MIL problems. i have a fair share of them and know how awful it gets. i finally have had to put my foot down harder and if DH won't say something I WILL. esp with my little bear cub to protect from her now. i'll be a lot more vocal and less timid when it comes to my baby. she may be grandma but she's nothing to me when she's drunk or strung out and she won't be around my kids when she can't control herself. |
Uh, I'm pretty sure you and I have the same mother-in-law...Sounds very, very familiar.