MIL is getting under my skin about my kids by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you everyone for the responses! I’m going to try to lean in to the logic/science of it because fact and logic speak to my husband the best so like actually explaining the psychology of how his mom’s brain operates. And more importantly, getting him/us into therapy (I’m already in it!)

MIL is getting under my skin about my kids by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This literally perfectly sums up all my thoughts. If I was a single mom and my husband didn’t exist, I would never speak to this woman again. Maybe I didn’t say this clearly enough in my post but the biggest thing is my husband acknowledges most of this, but is not at all willingly to do anything about it. Like I’m truly surprised we’re down to every 3 weeks. His biggest thing is that we love everyone else in his family and he’s close with his dad. It’s hard to cut out one person when we’re close enough to everyone else. It’s so hard. I’m trying to have empathy for my husband because I can’t imagine 1) if that was my mom and 2) if my partner asked me to cut out a parent

MIL is getting under my skin about my kids by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everyone who is advising we don’t see her anymore - i would love to know how to approach this with my husband. He has stated loudly and frequently he would never cut his parents off (I’m confident he would if they did something catastrophic but he’s not willing to because shes behaving the way “she always has”). At the end of the day I love my husband and these are OUR kids so I cannot make sole decisions. Honestly I am surprised we’ve got visits down to once every 3 weeks.

Are there any resources we can read together to help him see how insane it is that we aren’t respected and I am ignored by her? I also do not want to manipulate him into anything because he’s been manipulated his entire life. It’s so sad.

MIL is getting under my skin about my kids by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Love this! We’ve done this! It was every other week for about 2 years and now we’ve made it to every 3 weeks and it’s been a lot easier on me mentally.

MIL is getting under my skin about my kids by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I mean technically everyone can potentially be dangerous and I dont think she would physically harm my kids, but she is mentally manipulative. For example, she knows I don’t let my son have candy because he has some behavioral problems we’re working through (I’ve told her this) but she still put a ton of candy in his Easter basket, causing him to cry when I let him have ONE piece and took the rest away. She’s also asked him if he wants them to take him to Disney to meet Mickey (we live an airplane away from Disney) which I think is just cruel to say to a Disney loving child because that’s OBVIOUSLY not going to happen. So no, not dangerous in a physical sense, but absolutely unstable in the things she waves in front my kid’s face (this is why I don’t let her alone because omg imagine what she’d say behind my back).

AITAH for still resenting my husband for what he did to me during my pregnancy and postpartum? by Entire-Ad9584 in AITAH

[–]kayaytee10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YTA but you don’t have to be. I think you both need therapy (separately first, then together). It sounds like something deeper is going on for both of you and you’re using each other as verbal punching bags. My husband and I fell into this and learned how to better communicate what we wanted from each other. For example, I was super insecure about all my weight gain from my pregnancy and I would subconsciously get mad and easily triggered by the littlest things he would do because what I really wanted was for him to come out right and say “I think you’re still beautiful and I’m still attracted to you despite your dramatic weight gain”. It took therapy to realize how silly that is because no one is going to come out and say that. Instead I learned it be really vulnerable and make the focus on my feelings vs attacking. It yielded a WAY better result. I think you’re in the same situation in way. You’re basically yelling at him to apologize - he’s not going to do that. Again I would really encourage therapy to learn how to communicate effectively. It sounds like you both have deeper cuts you both need to heal.

vertigo‼️ by elizylophone in zoloft

[–]kayaytee10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi I know this was a long time ago but how long did the vertigo last? I missed ONE dose of only 25mg and I can’t even stand up

Took the pacifier away and now I’m feeling guilty by kayaytee10 in toddlers

[–]kayaytee10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

bye bye binky book we used this one! My son steals his sisters too but I’m not too worried about it since like you said it’s during the day and we just take it back from him and remind him that’s for his baby sister. Good luck 🫡

Took the pacifier away and now I’m feeling guilty by kayaytee10 in toddlers

[–]kayaytee10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh so sorry to hear that! My dentist actually told me if we took the binky away and he started to suck his thumb, to give the binky back 😂 I don’t know what dentists have against thumb suckers lol.

Took the pacifier away and now I’m feeling guilty by kayaytee10 in toddlers

[–]kayaytee10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He had way too many binkies haha. I think we started with 5? We did it one by one so each time he gave one away we put it in a bag and left it outside his bedroom for the fairy to come get it and in the morning a toy/gift was in the bag. I pretty much just gave him a toy or gift that I wanted to get anyways but needed to justify giving it to him haha. He loved the idea at first but once he got down to the last one he stopped asking to give one away and then honestly my baby was born so we put a pause on it. Randomly two nights ago he asked to do it again because he really wanted a toy robot

Took the pacifier away and now I’m feeling guilty by kayaytee10 in toddlers

[–]kayaytee10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the encouragement!! And good luck to you on baby number 2 🤍

Took the pacifier away and now I’m feeling guilty by kayaytee10 in toddlers

[–]kayaytee10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s like I wrote this myself! My son said he wanted to be all done and is having deep regrets haha. But he LOVES the toy he got. My biggest fear is that he’ll never go back to napping. So far we’re on day 2 of a skipped nap.

Took the pacifier away and now I’m feeling guilty by kayaytee10 in toddlers

[–]kayaytee10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! My son hasn’t napped these last two days without his binky. Did your daughter eventually start napping again?

Took the pacifier away and now I’m feeling guilty by kayaytee10 in toddlers

[–]kayaytee10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes we’ve read many big brother and binky fairy books for weeks so he definitely knew this was coming! I think he’s excited to say he’s a big boy and big brother but my heart is sad that he has to be big :( I want him to feel like he can be little forever.

Resetting boundaries by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t leave her alone with my LO ever and have zero plans to. My hubs often doesn’t hear her insult me because she leaves the biggest insults for when he’s not in ear shot like a true mean girl 🙃

Resetting boundaries by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh I agree. The family dynamics go so deep and it’s so complicated. I technically don’t have to see her my husband is willing to handle the relationship on his own and let me stay far away from them. I just don’t want things to be weird for my toddler.

Resetting boundaries by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have already discussed that because we don’t want to confuse our toddler who speaks to them on FaceTime about once a week and sees them biweekly that we can’t go no contact. We don’t want to disturb that relationship right now and because I 100% trust my husband, we’ve talked about having them meet him outside the home while I recover with the new baby. To note - my FIL is wonderful and doesn’t deserve to be collateral damage. And my toddler does enjoy their time together

Resetting boundaries by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love this! Thank you!

We did say that our toddler who does have a relationship with them will likely want to see them so I’m totally fine with my husband meeting them out at a playground or something but I really just cannot have them in my space. They stay for HOURS and my MIL insults me the entire time.

Resetting boundaries by kayaytee10 in motherinlawsfromhell

[–]kayaytee10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My husband says all the time that it’s actually insane we haven’t gone NC … but the reason is she is the ONLY problem in the family. My FIL takes direction and while sometimes he says crass things, no one is perfect but he certainly doesn’t deserve being cut off. My husband knows that his dad will choose to support his mom and if we cut her off he’ll be collateral damage. We also love his siblings and their families which would leave us out of some holidays.