My in-laws call everyday on video call. They ask what we ate for lunch, dinner everyday. They want to know each and every thing we do, know about our friends. These calls last 40 minutes every day. Me and my parents talk once or twice in a week but my husband’s parents call twice, once in morning for 30 minutes and evenings 1 hr during weekends too. Is this normal?
Is it a cultural thing that they ask -did you finish dinner everyday? I understand if the call is once a week or after a long time, people do ask. But in our case they know we have early dinner still she asks me and my husband the same thing. One day I jokingly said, we always have dinner early as I had told her this earlier as well. She said okay I will stop asking that also then. My husband did not like this and started saying I disappointed him. I mean seriously?! He says just say yes had dinner and move on.
I don’t like her at all. She had created multiple obstacles during wedding as well. It was a total shitshow for me because she controlled everything as she wanted for her son’s wedding. During reception, she created such a scene in front of the relatives shouting just because someone said I am not calling her relatives for taking pictures! I cried whole night.
Even in the morning as soon as he wakes up, calls them to tell he has woken up now will get ready for office and another call before leaving for office and sends text message to his mom in India that he reached office.
If he or me wears a different shirt/top that she has not seen before she asks is this new? One day my husband wore a new shirt that I had gifted before marriage that she had not seen. She noticed it was new! And got upset that he didn’t show it to her when bought. He now doesn’t tell them everything and lie about things they don’t need to know.
My husband is just trying to convince me that this is normal.