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Ex MIL wants to take my 1 year old away for 3 months

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diamontee · 22/08/2023 13:14

I know I'm not being unreasonable, but just need somewhere to rant!

Ex MIL casually dropped in the conversation that she wants to take DD (13 months) to her home country for three months. I immediately said absolutely not! She then followed up with "ok, just one month then"! This is apparently so that DD can "get used" to being away from me as she is very clingy. Why on earth would a 13 month old need to get used to being away from their mother for months at a time?!

Apparently I'm completely unreasonable for not allowing this and have been accused of "hogging" the baby... honestly couldn't make this up!

OP posts:
StMarieforme · 23/04/2024 20:51

SaveMeFromMyBoobs · 22/08/2023 15:34

Not sure why so many posts saying if she hands daughter over unsupervised she is going to be victim of FGM. OP never said MIL belonged to a culture that practices it and quite simply MIL does not have the right to remove daughter from country. She doesn't have PR. She can't get a passport. Chance of MIL getting daughter out the country is negligible when OP is not agreeing to it.

No one has said that? Just that it's a risk. Which it is.

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