DS is 22. His girlfriend is 24. DS lives in another city and he’s been with his girlfriend for over a year. They live together. We haven’t met her yet, and at the weekend they are both coming round and will be staying with us. I can't wait too meet her - DS is so happy and in love. DH told my MIL that they’ll be coming round, and she proceeded to invite herself over for the weekend so that she “can check up on the girl.”
MIL is insistent that DS and his girlfriend sleep in separate rooms. That the girlfriend should take DS’ old room and that he sleep on the couch in the living room. I told her attempting enforce some form of Stalinist chastity upon them is futile. They are a couple in their early 20s – a couple that lives together. Of course they are having sex. MIL said that they are not married and that having them sharing a bed is a sin. I said they are both adults, not teenagers. I said it’s silly to have DS sleep on the couch when there’s a perfectly good bed IN HIS OLD BLOODY ROOM. We argued over it, and in the end I told her that it was my son, my house. I wish DH hadn’t mentioned DS and his girlfriend coming over to his mother. It’s going to be a long weekend. I feel for the girlfriend. MIL is going to interrogate her like she’s a suspect in a murder investigation. Going to need lots of wine.