Ok, I think I’m being ridiculous but I’d like other opinions.
OH and I have just had our first baby, she is 8 weeks and the first grandchild for both sets of parents. MIL and I do get on very well, however sometimes I find her to be very over bearing and too involved. She was never like this before LO was around and to be quite frank, didn’t show any interest in me at all so I am finding all the attention from her strange as I’m not used to it
She messages me a few times a day asking for updates, pictures, what’s she doing, how did she sleep etc. I have always shown willing and replied to the messages (I try too hard to please sometimes) but have now found out from my OH that she copies and pastes the messages she sends to me and sends them to my OH. We obviously reply slightly different each time as we didn’t know we were both texting her and if OH mentions something that I haven’t she questions me on this (e.g. she asked how LO slept, I said well, OH replied that she slept through the night for the first time and then MIL replied to me saying “how good she slept through!” I was so perplexed how she knew which is how OH and I came to find out she sends the same messages to us both).
AIBU to think she doesn’t need to text us both the same texts 4/5 times a day for bloody updates and then compare our answers? If I said something to her and said I felt it unnecessary would I look like a complete b**ch? I know she means well but I’m just finding it really irritating.
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