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Confessions

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Re: Confessions

  • I confess that I dread doing anything with MIL.  I know she has a lot of health issues (including mental health issues) but I have a hard time listening to her tell me how she is following her diet and her exercises when she is CLEARLY retaining fluid again to the point where she cannot walk up stairs anymore.  I hate that everything is an OMG HUGE DEAL (which it never is) because of her anxiety issues (which she refuses to deal with).  Uhh!
  • I confess that I cannot stand my FMIL. She has been an addict for years and doesn't have any desire to get it together. My fbil is a teen now, but he has lived with us for periods of time b/c she went to live with a bf who wouldn't let her son live there.
    I also confess that the experience of having FBIL living with us, with me being 95% for taking care of him only solidified my resolve not to have kids.
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  • ggmae, I'm WAY late, but wow.  I would likely have had a come to Jesus conversation with FMIL.  Something like this:

    "FMIL, having children is pretty challenging if we can't ever sleep in the same room.  And since there's no space for that in your house, I can't see where my children might sleep safely were they to come to visit.

    Further, you don't get to dictate when our children come to visit you.  You can invite.  We will accept or decline as we see fit.  And, if you can't agree to abide by whatever rules & agreements we make, they won't be staying with you unsupervised.  Period.  To demand differently is really disrespectful.

    AND - if there's a time or place in which we want you to visit us, we'll invite you.  Please stop trying to invite yourself."

    Sorry, your MIL is just a beast, I think!  Feel free to tell her squirrly said so. 

    My confession:  I don't want to go to work.  At all.  And definitely not once we have kids.  I want to be able to be a SAHM, at least for a little while.  That's about 5% likely to happen, though, and I'm a bit miffed about it.

    I'm also irritated with FI over one of the DIY wedding projects.  He's been putting off helping, and it's the only thing I have really asked and asked, because I literally can't do it alone.  He refused today, and I yelled at him and told him he'd have to shell out the cash out of his pocket to get it done, then.
    DIY & Planning | Married 

    Married: 2010
    Mom to J: 2011
    Mom to H: 2014

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