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AIBU to not mind when my MIL…

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DarlingFell · 05/08/2021 13:26

…cleans when she comes to visit?

My house is clean but it’s old, there is always something that needs doing, e.g., we have some copper pans in the kitchen that I never get around to polishing, she sorts them out (I never ask her. When I get home from work and she’s visiting, she’ll be in the kitchen, cleaning something.. I’m always grateful, it helps me out! But am I unreasonable for not minding, for being grateful, should it annoy me? Is it interfering, or inferring that my standards aren’t up to hers?

We have a cleaner that comes once a week and DH and I maintain but MIL will always find something to do..

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KingdomScrolls · 06/08/2021 23:20

My MIL does my weeding and sometimes laundry when she comes to look after DS , amazing. Came home after a stressful long day at work a few weeks ago and my mum had deep cleaned my kitchen and made a lasagne! DS doesn't usually nap anymore but he was a bit under the weather and had, so she said she thought she might as well be useful. Felt like I was winning at life that day. They just remember what it is like to be working and have a young child, that's no judgement.

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