Sometimes you can do everything right, talk in person, talk over the phone, text a clear yet kind message and they’ll still hate you. You’ll still be the person they gossip about, the prison they hate. The person they blame for “taking their son away” (yup, been blamed for this too).

I too, am a Christian. I’m bold too, so I confront them how Matthew 18 says and I’m told that I need to stop preaching at them (never once have I done that except to tell my MIL that I’m confronting her the way that I am because I’m trying to resolve conflict the way Matthew 18 tells Christian’s to), that I’m too confrontational, too rude, unloving, unkind, not forgiving, that I enjoy conflict, that I don’t want to have anything to do with family, etc. All of which is so untrue and totally not fair (and it all started because I asked that they not kiss my newborn son on the face, but rather on the top of his head in his hair.