Sorry this is unnecessarily long!
We had a baby 3 months ago and have sent out thank you cards. When we sent them about 6 weeks ago mil offered' insisted under the pretence of being helpful to write the envelopes for her side of the family. She has distinctive hand writing and would love that people had noticed she had been involved in the cards. I let her do it. My husband is shit and never got round to writing his side of the cards so in the end I did his distant relative ones. I know I shouldn't have but I just wanted them done.
Anyhow, this weekend his mum turns up with a dress from my husband's great aunt. While I'm not in the room she offers to write the card (we have a stack of those photo cards) and post it for my husband and my husband agrees. She is only offering so she can get the glory. When she was about to leave she asks him for a card and I discover what's happened and say 'no, we can do it'. mIL looks pissed off but accepts this. I just suggested to my husband that he go write the bloody card and he doesn't want to and says I should have let his mum and he thought I would do it as I'd said no to his mum. He is thirty fucking three! I said his mum was rude for even offering and let him know his age in case he had forgotten that he's not. 3. He says he doesn't even see his great aunt so his mum could do it. He is now stomping around the house in a mega mood.
So... Is it acceptable to get your mum to write thank you cards for you when you're an adult? Have I been a bitch? I don't think so but maybe I have. I shouldn't have said his mum was rude though, I know that. I wish the concept of thank you cards didn't even exist. This is a ridiculous argument.
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AIBU? Husband, MiL and a thank you card
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seven201 · 22/09/2016 18:34
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