By Plenty-Angle6385 • Score: 3 • April 22, 2025 5:55 AM
I 28 (f) and my husband 29 (m) live with my MIL to help pay household bills (water,gas,house loan, groceries, etc) the day before Easter, she started yelling at my husband, it was a stupid argument and I simply told her to stop yelling in front of the kids 9 (m) and 11 months (f). She went off on me and quote said " you want to talk about my parenting" I was livid. All I asked was for her to stop subjecting my children to a hostile environment and she attacked me about how I parent.
For context she's almost 60 and thinks everything she says about parenting is right because she graduated 20 something years ago in early child development ( the same classes I'm taking right now) so she doesn't agree with how I parent or what the classes now say about parenting. We've clashed quite a bit when it comes to my parenting, but it's my parenting, not hers. Yes we live in the same house, but she's grandma, she always has to jump in and say something when I'm disciplining my oldest, or even before I get the chance to say anything she has to put her two cents in.
She got in my face after I told her to stop arguing in front of the kids, literally jumped up when I went to step outside and said " You wanna talk, let's go talk" very aggressively. I told her no I didn't want to talk, I simply wanted her to stop yelling. So she refused to talk to me or acknowledge me for the rest of the night. Fine, that didn't bug me.
What really set me off is her refusing to talk to me or acknowledge me on my daughters first easter. My husband and I even waited for her to wake up so the kids could open their easter baskets with her present. Instead of being a part of it, she went outside, and when it was done she walked back in, my husband had said to her "You just missed (daughter) opening up her first easter basket" MIL then started crying and went to her room.
I 100 % blame that on her, she's the one who left the room because she didn't want to be in the same room as me. I tried talking to her later on easter and she ignored me, didn't say a word. She then gets home today (Monday) and didn't say a thing to me even though I asked her how her day was. My oldest child was in the room and asked me why grandma wasn't talking to me.
At that point I had enough, I finished cooking dinner and packed myself and the two kids up and left. My husband told me he's not picking sides, and I'm being petty. But my MIl isn't being petty? I'm at my wits end and told him I'm not coming home until he figures it out because I'm not subjecting myself or my children to that environment. I don't think I was in the wrong for not wanting yelling around the children, but he thinks I need to be the bigger person. AITA?
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