"She loves her grandchildren, but she is very interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful to me and my husband. On this recent visit she brought a children's book for our 5-year-old daughter that was missing the last two pages. The book was about a girl who visits her grandmother for the summer every year; my MIL wrote an ending with my daughter that sent a chill down my spine."
"It said the girl's parents died and she got to live with her grandmother forever. It was written like a happy ending! When we confronted her (away from the children) that it was inappropriate, she blamed our 5-year-old saying it was all her idea. I am so upset I can't even look at this woman; and now she is suggesting we get together again next month to go camping. What should we do?"
"Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints. But it takes a certain kind of genius to come up with the idea of ripping out the final pages of a children's book and writing the happy ending about becoming an orphan so that one can live with Grammy forever! As usual, when you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk."
A family of five vacationed with the wife's in-laws while the family provided accommodations. The mother-in-law behaves more like a second parent, described as interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful toward the married couple. During the visit she brought a children's book missing the final pages and wrote an ending claiming the child's parents died so she could live with the grandmother. When confronted away from the children, the mother-in-law blamed the five-year-old. The mother is deeply upset and reluctant to see the grandmother again. The husband is urged to have a serious conversation with his mother and ask her to reconsider her behavior.
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