MIL has punished DS because of us

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MIL told every single person in her family not to buy my son any birthday presents because we refused to travel 400 miles to be with her on his birthday. They all obeyed her.

AIBU to give up on them all? They are all horrid people anyway.

Have gone NC for less. Do it OP.

Best off out of it completely.
How did her own son react to this - was he unsurprised, hurt, angry or just thinks you should suck it up because "she's like that"?

Atrociously petty. I wouldn't want my child to have anything to do with people like that either.

Happy Birthday to your boy, by the way

How old is he? Too young to be aware, hopefully. Have my first 'go no contact', that's just awful.

Why would you want to be dictated to by a family that listens to her?

THey sound spineless,

I blame them as much as her.

I’d phone her up, have a pop at her and then go nc lol

Vile.

Not one person stood up to her?

They're all twats. You're better off not bothering.

Wow. I’ve seen some nasty MILs but that’s just left me lost for words.

What does your h think? He must be even angrier than you or is this standard behaviour from her?

Happy birthday to your son 🎂🎉⭐️ Hope he's too young to notice and that he had a great day.

Go NC - this is disgusting behaviour.

What did your husband say!

why would they all obey her?

That's just pure spite. Yeah go nc with them.

why would they all obey her?

This is what I don't understand.

YANBU. what a nasty self-centred woman to be so vindictive when she wasn't made the centre of attention on a little boy's birthday. What cowardly shallow people everyone else in the family must be to have obeyed.

That is disgraceful. Why would she do that to her own GC.?

I would walk away and not say anything to her or the family. She wants a reaction. Silence is golden Op.

Dispict his GM I hope your son had a lovely birthday

Despite.

If this is your partner's family then it's not your issue is it ?

No reason for you to have anything to do with them and as your MiL lives so far away you are not going to bump into her are you ?

Ignore it all and it will work itself out -or maybe not . But either way not an issue for you really ?

Fuck them, have nothing more to do with them, bloody terrible behaviour.

Yes I would ignore the lot of them and not give vile
MIL the satisfaction of being remotely bothered about her twattery.

Sounds like good riddance to me.

Wow - never speak to the lot of them again

What a stone cold bitch. I can't believe they all listened to her. Cowards. It's my first no contact like a poster above and I often roll my eyes at that suggestion to some of the things on here but in this case it's completely justified. I am staggered at her lack of self awareness and the fact that the rest of the family all fell in line. Is your husband close to his family?

Op how do you know and how many people are we taking about. It seems very odd!!

Oh that is so sad, your poor little boy, I can't understand why anyone would have chosen to do this.....

I think I’d want to double check exactly what story your MIL gave to family members before cutting them
all off.

She could have said that you’d requested no presents this year for example.