We've been staying with in-laws, who live about 5 - 10 mins drive away from SIL.
Yesterday, SIL was suffering from a nasty bout of diarrhoea and vomiting. I heard all about this, as SIL was phoning MIL every hour or so to tell MIL all about how poorly she was feeling.
Today, SIL came to visit MIL, with no prior warning, and started heading towards DS (14 months), who was playing with his cars on the floor at the time. I said that I didn't want SIL to play with DS, as she'd been ill with D&V all yesterday, and I didn't want DS to get sick. SIL got all huffy, said she was feeling better now, and took herself off to another room in the house to sulk.
I'm feeling a bit bad for hurting SIL's feelings. Especially after DH said that SIL was a drama queen and had probably been exaggerating her symptoms. Although MIL did suggest that I put DS in his cot to get him 'out of the way' when we saw SIL approaching the front door, so I'm getting mixed messages from the family here. But I didn't apologise to SIL at the time, in case she took this as permission to play with DS and gave him D&V.
I'm now wondering if I was being a little hasty and unreasonable. And probably tactless. I wasn't expecting SIL to turn up, so didn't really think too much before opening my mouth. WIBU and terribly rude?
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PurpleGentian · 09/11/2012 22:59
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