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To not want to help inlaws?

103 replies

lovecakess · 25/08/2023 09:48

So my inlaws are getting on a bit now and have various operations coming up.

It has been hinted that they expect me to help but I dont want too for various reasons.

For years including lockdown I helped them endlessly and I feel it was never appreciated as I never even got a thank you.

MIL is a very nasty woman, she is always making snippy comments and isnt very friendly towards me and blames it on having various vitamin deficiencies.

During lockdown I did not work for 18 months and lost my beauty business and literally had to live of credit cards and universal credit.

MIL and FIL are multimillionaires, instead of offering to help ( as I have always done to them ) my MIL just advised me to go to a food bank.

As MIL is a keen sewer I would often give her clothing I did not want so she could use it for her projects. Never even thanked me.

I really do feel like an unpaid carer and they have a son who was absent for 25 years and I have basically been covering his role.

I have my own family to look after, people who are grateful and speak to me with respect unlike MIL.

I have said to partner he needs to be arranging help and not expecting me to help as I have done plenty for them.

Partner is making me feel bad, but I am done being an unpaid carer to such a nasty woman.

Am I being unreasonable?

OP posts:
SeulementUneFois · 26/08/2023 10:42

Well done OP!

You need to be vigilant that this is not just words from your partner, to placate you.
And that he doesn't start backtracking bit by bit.

pikkumyy77 · 26/08/2023 13:49

Well…its a start.

Greenpolkadot · 30/08/2023 14:40

Tourmalines · 25/08/2023 09:54

They are multi millionaires . They can pay for their own care surely. No way should you be expected too .

Agreed

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