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Ungrateful in-laws

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deardia · 10/04/2021 19:34

I never learn!!!! My in-laws are super ungrateful all the time!!! Pisses me off. Yet I still throw gifts their way, god only knows why! Because it only stresses me out more than anything.
Dh was going round to his mums to pick something up, I prepared gifts earlier and so told him to take it with him. It's a gift for the whole family, for context the people living in the house are mil, bil, sil, and sil one child. (Bil and sil are brother and sister to each other, so not to be confused with being married to one another)

Anyways it's a gift that you can see would've took a lot of thought, all personalised, one gift is for the whole family and the other is for sil child.

Sil was upstairs so dh didn't see her. Bil and mil was very happy with it all and Bil told dh to tell me he says thank you so much.
My point is why can't he himself say thank you!?? A simple mssg won't take any effort at all.
Sil still hasn't mssgd to acknowledge the gift given to HER child!
Her level of entitlement pisses me off.
If someone gave my child a gift, I would ensure to thank the giver.
Bil does this type of thing all the time and so does sil actually, they don't seem to like me very much and always go out of the way to show they like the other dil so much, on our group chat. Had anyone else sent what I did, they would've by now taken a pic and sent on the group for everyone to see

Anyways Bil sent a funny meme on the group, after dh returned home. No fucking thank you for me?! It's almost like he's done it on purpose just to mssg on the group so I see it and wonder why he hasn't acknowledged what I gave. He doesn't usually send memes or unnecessary stuff on the group.

I just need a kick up my backside to never ever give them anything ever again so I won't need to feel like this!! I always say I won't, and yet time and time again I still do it!!

OP posts:
rainbowstardrops · 11/04/2021 10:41

Why are you buying gifts for your in-laws? If it was for a birthday or something, why isn't your DH buying the presents?

lockdownalli · 11/04/2021 10:43

@Butterflyfluff

TBH it sounds you you only give the gifts to see what their reaction is

It sounds like you want them to grovel to you for receiving a gift they didn’t ask for and have thanked your husband for

That makes you much harder work than them

Agree with this.

You sound exhausting.

Alsohuman · 11/04/2021 10:44

@rainbowstardrops

Why are you buying gifts for your in-laws? If it was for a birthday or something, why isn't your DH buying the presents?
Perhaps because everyone doesn’t follow the MN rules? I buy presents for my in-laws, so does my dil. Why? Because both of us enjoy buying thoughtful presents and we’re better at it than our husbands. I suspect this happens in millions of marriages.
Lucywithout · 11/04/2021 11:20

Next time you put the hooha on Facebook! Photos and I made this beautiful cake for MIL, Bil and Sil and the little cupcake is for silsprog. You will probably get some thanks then.
But yes thanks to DH I would count as for me.

MiaRoma · 11/04/2021 13:05

@PrelovedWithValue

Not everyone does things our way and that doesn't make them bad people. Just different people

Nah, just normal people. That don't expect to be fawned over for every thing that we do. Love how patronising that is though! Made me laugh.

Glad it amused you. Not sure how a simple thank you could be classed as fawning but as I said, we're all different, doesn't make us bad people 😉 😜
PrelovedWithValue · 11/04/2021 13:10

Well clearly you and the op must be 'good people' compared to the rest of us 'different people' 😂

rainbowstardrops · 11/04/2021 13:52

rainbowstardrops
'Why are you buying gifts for your in-laws? If it was for a birthday or something, why isn't your DH buying the presents?'

Perhaps because everyone doesn’t follow the MN rules? I buy presents for my in-laws, so does my dil. Why? Because both of us enjoy buying thoughtful presents and we’re better at it than our husbands. I suspect this happens in millions of marriages.

That's fine if you actually like each other! OP says her in-laws piss her off, so why would she?
All this oh we're better at buying presents etc is why there are so many men that are useless at buying presents!

MiaRoma · 11/04/2021 14:52

@PrelovedWithValue

Well clearly you and the op must be 'good people' compared to the rest of us 'different people' 😂
You seem good too 🙂🙂
Alsohuman · 11/04/2021 15:18

All this oh we're better at buying presents etc is why there are so many men that are useless at buying presents!

Of course it’s not. There are plenty of men who are good at it and women who aren’t. My son’s brilliant at it, my husband isn’t.

LittleRed53 · 11/04/2021 15:28

Tbh as far as I'm concerned, a gift isn't a gift if there's strings attached. Obviously we all expect a certain level of gratitude, but going into it with specific expectations of what you feel is an appropriate level of gratitude, and how that should be shown, kind of undoes the point of giving something.

You have two options:

  1. Stop having any specific expectations of their response when you give something, just enjoy the sense of generosity knowing you did something kind.
  2. Stop giving gifts.
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