Here is a little backstory
So I and Her son(DH) married about 2 years ago ,at first, I really tried with my MIL.
I smiled through the backhanded compliments —
“You’re not what I pictured for him, but I guess love is blind.”
I let her redecorate my kitchen because “she knew better.”
then we had a baby boy
She kept calling our baby the name she liked, not the one we chose.
I bit my tongue. A lot.
Because I was raised to respect elders. But everything has its limit so mine ended too as
one day, she looked me dead in the eye and said,
“You’ll never understand him the way I do. I raised him.”
I smiled back and said,
“And now I’ll protect him — from anyone who disrespects our home, our choices, or me.”
She wanted control.
She called it love.
I called it manipulation.
Now she gets what she always asked for: respect —
from a healthy distance.
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