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AIBU?

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DH insists I move on from massive row with his parents

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LoveIsTheLight · 17/12/2020 12:18

I am looking for an honest answer. I want to do the right thing. I have no shame in admitting I am wrong, but I have always been brought up to only apologize when I have done wrong or unjust. Long story short, we moved (to where my husbands family reside) from overseas and decided to stay with his family until we could find work and become stable. We don’t live there anymore but everything happened while there. Shortly after, found out I was pregnant with first DD. My mum came to visit from overseas after a massive operation to help out with new baby because it was her first gradchild and it was her hearts desire to hold her newborn grandbaby despite her health condition. In laws made clear they would not be able to help and MIL booked 6 teeth implant procedures during the delivery dates. So as a new mom I was hugely relieved and grateful that my mom was going to be there to help me navigate the first few weeks of motherhood. I had no expectations from inlaws despite living in their home. Anyway MIL and SIL (who came to visit on the date of my delivery) were horrid to me throughout. MIL actually forced her way into my delivery room as I was screaming in pain (I had a traumatic delivery, DD almost did not make it, neither did I as I lost alot of blood) and nurse had to ask her to leave multiple times as I was often naked, being checked by multiple doctors and bleeding profusely on the hospital bed. She managed to blame me after for making her feel excluded during the delivery. Which to me was shocking as she did absolutely nothing for me and her grandchild once we were home, not even offer to make me a cup of tea. My mom was the rock who helped, cooked n cleaned n did laundry and made sure I was fed and on the road to recovery despite being rather unwell herself. Anyway one day I had enough and snapped at MIL when she passed a rude comment at my mother. She started yelling and ran out in the garden and said some horrible things about me. Fast forward a few days later when things were calm, DH,DM and baby and I sat down to have a conversation with inlaws and speak heart to heart about how we were feeling. She got so angry about the things I shared, denied them all infront of her son snd husband and threw her glasses violently towards my baby and mom and screeched at My DH, “take her away! Get her out of here!” as if I was a dog and started hurling obscenities at my mom n I. Baby started crying/my mom was shocked, she took baby in arms and asked me to leave with her. Fast forward, we moved out at a very inconvenient time financially and with a new baby. Now DH has a good stable job, financially comfortable and have a beautiful apartment. Happy domestic life. But DH insists I go along with him to meet his family and let by gones be bygones. His parents have been asking about me and telling him time has passed, she should forget what happened etc. I think they want access to my daughter which I am on the fence about. But by refusing to go, I am essentially coming off as the B^t*h here. AIBU in not wanting to go?

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RubbishQueen · 17/12/2020 12:40

I'm on team fuck them too. She sounds horrible!

EKGEMS · 17/12/2020 12:42

@unmarkedbythat 100% this!

iano · 17/12/2020 12:42

No way! He takes DD to visit and leaves you out of it. Mil sounds mental.
Frankly I'm not even sure id want DD to see them

Tonightstheteriyakichicken · 17/12/2020 12:43

Yanbu and FWIW, MIL owes your mother an apology too.

LoveIsTheLight · 17/12/2020 12:43

Hey I have answered this. Previous page.

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MrsGulDukat · 17/12/2020 12:43

Has he forgotten that his own mother angrily threw something at his newborn daughter?

For that shit alone, the bitch shouldnt be allowed within a mile of the baby.

ArrowsOfMistletoe · 17/12/2020 12:44

Tell your DH you won't do anything of the sort until you have had a proper apology for their appalling behaviour. He needs to stand up for you.

JumpingJamboree · 17/12/2020 12:45

No fucking way!!
Even if she had sent a grovelling apology after it happened, I would be keeping her out of my life and DD's as much as possible.
If you give in now and pretend like it never happened, that is just a green light for her to do it again and again.

ChaToilLeam · 17/12/2020 12:45

Has there been a massive, groveling apology?

If not, NO. The way your MIL behaved was appalling and unforgivable.

LoveIsTheLight · 17/12/2020 12:46

For what it’s worth, DH has been taking DD to visit every couple weeks to visit. No problems there. I want her to have a relationship with Grandparents. They haven’t complained. But I think MIL wants greater access to DD n DH. Hence insisting involving me as I am the centre of our little family, given that I am the primary care provider n DH basically depends on me for most decisions.

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Toddlerteaplease · 17/12/2020 12:46

I agree with @Pinkdelight3

Doihaff2 · 17/12/2020 12:46

She sounds awful I definitely wouldn’t move on

Yohoheaveho · 17/12/2020 12:47

Move on???
I'd punch her fucking lights out 🤬
(Metaphorically)
She's like a feral cat
And forcing her way into the delivery room!!! she wanted to savour the experience of you at your most vulnerable exposed and in pain
Horrifying woman😱

TragedyHands · 17/12/2020 12:47

YANBU and tell your dh he has no right to insist anything, you aren't his servant.
Don't see them, she sounds awful.

WhereYouLeftIt · 17/12/2020 12:48

@unmarkedbythat

Wtf is wrong with your DH?!
Exactly what I was thinking.
Puzzledandpissedoff · 17/12/2020 12:48

DH is deluded enough to believe that his family have no issues with me whatsoever and i am the one hanging on to the past and not letting anyone move past it

Yes you've got a massive MIL problem, but you have a still bigger one with DH who seems to be appeasing whoever's most assertive

Granted staying with IL's can be challenging, but there are no excuses for how she's behaved - not ever, under any circumstances - and it's worrying that he can't see the need for a full and unreserved apology

Trouble is he's probably placated mummy by painting you as the awkward one now, so I doubt that apology will arrive and it's down to you as to how you want to handle this now

Sally872 · 17/12/2020 12:48

Because it is his mother I would not expect DH to cut contact. I would also be ok with child going (so long as with dh). I would never see her again. That is awful behaviour.

Unicant · 17/12/2020 12:50

nope.
Tell your DH he can still see them if he wants but you are not having anyone who treats you like that in your life. I really think your DH needs to grow a pair.. how can he want you to see someone who behaved like this to you?

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 17/12/2020 12:50

I was ready to read this and think you were being precious and should just try and get along with them, but fuck that. An apology wouldn't be enough for me. I wouldn't have forgiven her just for the shit in the hospital. That would have been the end for me, never mind chilling something towards my baby. She would have been picking her teeth off the floor.

RedToothBrush · 17/12/2020 12:52

@LoveIsTheLight

No apology at all. Sends food when DH visits. Very manipulative and tells DH to bring me to visit and forget what happened as several months have passed. DH is deluded enough to believe that his family have no issues with me whatsoever and i am the one hanging on to the past and not letting anyone move past it.
The issue is the argument hasn't gone away as far as his family are concerned, and he's not dealt with the argument and backed you up.

So its no longer simply about the original argument and the lack of respect will fester until confronted head on.

And that can only be done if HE acknowledges the original issue so you are able to move forward.

He is the barrier. Don't just suck up poor treatment to just be nice cos he says so.

TragedyHands · 17/12/2020 12:52

Tell dh if he takes the baby to her again you'll report to ss that he isn't keeping baby safe as mil throws objects at dd.

TicTacTwo · 17/12/2020 12:52

What wrong with your h? He can't insist that you move on.

Your current actions of sending dd and your h to contact is very reasonable but be prepared for MIL to say something to your dd about the situation. Your dd will need an explanation

testingmitb · 17/12/2020 12:53

Sorry pressed YABU but you definitely are YANBU. No way would I re-establish relations with them. They don't sound nice people.

Mumtoalittlegirl · 17/12/2020 12:53

Wow.

Cut ties and never see the crazy bitch again.

LoveIsTheLight · 17/12/2020 12:53

@Puzzledandpissedoff agreed. And I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel resentful towards him re this. I really did expect more truth be told.

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