Be honest - am I overreacting?
on every other mother’s day, my husbands mom doesn’t care and when he calls and offers to take her out, she declines… but somehow, on my first mother’s day ever, at the ass crack of dawn, she texts him and tells him to call her and when he does, she says that she wants to stop by. she has a gift for me which is thoughtful but still… my parents had gifts for me and still managed to plan ahead.
no wait, it gets BETTER. my husband responded with “idk what we have going on later, let me talk to her about you visiting this evening and i’ll let you know.” His response to my frustration was “well to be fair, your parents do see our son way more and it is mother’s day and you got your parents a calendar of the baby and didn’t get my mom one..”
CRAZY how i planned ahead to see all the grandparents of my side of the family beforehand so that we could spend today with just us since it’s my first mother’s day… wouldn’t have been that difficult for him to do the same.
CRAZY how i handled getting my parents gifts and he didn’t even get his mom a card… like, did he get my parents a gift? NO. and now, if we say no to her, it’s on me because he said “let me ask her.”
CRAZY how my parents only see our kid more because they ask in advance, make more of an effort, and respect our parenting wishes (AKA, she wouldn’t stop kissing our baby in front of us when we said people couldn’t kiss our babies face) If his parents wanted to see him more, they’d do those things.
like dude.. you tryna get kicked to the couch on mother’s day? the one day im supposed to relax and not stress, you think my MIL coming over is a grand idea? on top of waiting until the DAY OF to plan it and tell me? i’m telling my dad that my husband desperately wants to do a father in law/son in law bonding hike on father’s day. MENNNNNNNN.