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Mil told me being hospitalised with pneumonia was a social snub

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DoneWithMIL · 27/01/2026 08:39

I wasn't able to go to my brother in law's wedding because I was really ill at the time and 25 weeks pregnant - was physically exhausted and struggled to do much. My husband went to the wedding. A week later I was hospitalised with bacterial pneumonia for a week. Felt reduced movements and my baby had to be monitored daily.

Now after an argument with mother in law over something trivial she sent this massive email with everything I have done wrong - one of the things on the list was me not attending my brother in laws wedding. I reminded her about the pneumonia and she said well you didn't communicate this. We did.

She also said that I broke her dying mothers heart because I didn't bring my newborn daughter to see her mum. As well as the pneumonia my daughter wasn't growing in the last week, then she almost died during labour - I had an emergency c section. Then she had seizures at a few days old.
Excuse me for not prioritising people that live 60 miles away. Husband cant drive so would have had to be public transport.

OP posts:
SirBasil · 28/01/2026 10:40

DoneWithMIL · 27/01/2026 17:37

He will say I am having a go at his mother again 🙄 and get defensive

oh god.

In that case, i go along with "print it out and stick it on the fridge"

(I have to say that i am extremely petty. I would be running over now and then and going "oh yes, and that one" and ticking them off one by one with a red pen)

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 30/01/2026 10:07

WhereYouLeftIt · 27/01/2026 14:55

"she sent this massive email with everything I have done wrong"

Print it out and put it on the fridge. Keep it in front of your husband's eyes.

Good idea

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 30/01/2026 10:12

SumTingWongwithme · 27/01/2026 18:00

No she doesn't she has a bitch of a MIL. All the sheep on here write this as a standard trope and I get sick of seeing it!

But this literally is a DH problem.
He didn't stand up for his kid when his cunt of a mum was discrediting his Autism. He didn't stand up for his wife having nearly died in child birth.
He says OP is digging at his cunt of a mum.

How is that not a DH issue?

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