My PILs have been breaking lockdown for weeks. Their daughter, son in law and their 3 month old baby visit them at their house nearly every day. They maintain this is fine because they’re only seeing them and not going into any shops etc. Issue is, my SIL is also seeing HER in laws, who are also seeing their other child, husband and kids. So there are multiple households mixing now. I really disagree with this but it’s none of my business. They live 3.5hrs drive away; we don’t have a car.
Recently they’ve been piling the pressure on my DH to visit them. He’s been doing all the childcare for our toddler as his work his more flexible than mine (I’m pregnant and wfh, he’s self-employed and workload gone down massively due to covid). They’re offering to come and get us all and drive us to theirs and help with childcare. DH is very tempted as he’s exhausted.
I’ve said no way directly to them twice now but they’ve kept pressuring DH and saying he could come with our son and leave me behind. I’m absolutely furious - there is no way I want to be parted from my 2 year old and have him exposed to covid. Obviously this is partly a DH problem (to be fair he has backed me to them 100%, it’s only in private to me he’s started saying it might be ok after all).
They say everyone where they live (Yorkshire) is doing it and it’s cruel that we’re depriving them of seeing their grandchild.
Don’t know what I’m asking really - just want some reassurance I’m not being unreasonable!
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PILs putting pressure on us to break lockdown
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HarrietM87 · 07/06/2020 08:01
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