This sounds like such a childish whinge and know is pretty low down scale of feeling rubbish due to family but I can feel the teenage me wailing 'it's not faaaaiirr!! I knew she was your favourite!'
Background DS has 2 DC, 3 & 7- just after their births DM has taken time off work to go there and spend a week with the newborn, at DS and BIL agreeance, all happy with this. She is about a 2hr drive away we are 1hr from DM/DF. DM has now retired and goes up about every 2 months for a long weekend to babysit as their nanny does not work weekends to let DS/BIL go to away- have absolutely no issues with this- her time is her time and i rightly have no say in this. My whiny gripe comes in as the 2nd thing she said to me after we announced my pregnancy (after congratulations!) was 'don't think we'll always be on hand to babysit as you live closest' and then told us last month shes booked a 2 week holiday abroad either side of my due date. Again this is her holiday, her time, but she then alson announced she would be going to DS to baby sit when back while DS/BIL go on hols as nanny is going home for a week at same time. Having said that her new GC could be a month old before she sees them her solution is that we then travel the 3 hrs to bring them to her at DS home. I think when I look at it from an unemotional point of view I know I can never make someone choose to be interested but it just brings up so much teenage angst of unfairness! (even just typing this has helped release some tension!)
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TallulahTheTiger · 12/06/2016 11:31
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