My mil corrects everything I say
I want to know if people think im being overly sensitive.
My Mil is a very opiniated lady in general not necessarily obnoxious or loud about it but just very quick to be set on things.
I feel like most of what I say to her she corrects or disagrees with. Not even referring to controversial topics just everything...
Even when she's venting about something and I think im being supportive of what she is saying she will then turn around and say no its not like that.
One example I said something about a culture being more male dominated and traditional about gender roles than the country we live in. She snapped at me 'no they're not like that." But the thing is my parents are from the country/culture I was talking about, so I was referencing my own experience. But I guess she thought I was being prejudiced or something.
A frequent one is her just correcting the word ive used eg I say something and she says "no its..."
I often fact check myself after and I've used the right term. Or other times it's more a pedantic correction like if I say collar bone she says "it's the clavicle."
I think she can be like this with other people. She doesn't acknowledge their own experience or expertise. I've seen her tell a lawyer they're wrong about a legal point for example with no really reason just "the system doesn't work that way..." type thing.
She seems to do it more to me than her other children or other daughter in law though.
It does bring up my own insecurities that maybe I come across as stupid.
I mostly say nothing but if I do push back against corrections I get made out to be the bad guy. My husband knows it's annoying but just thinks im not playing nice enough.
Any suggestions on how to handle someone like this? I find her hard to understand. I wonder if maybe she doesn't fully understand that it comes across as argumentative.