I have a 2.5 year old daughter. I am a stay at home mother and I am always with her. I buy her all the latest toys, clothes, I am dedicated to her every need, I go to extraordinary lengths to make her happy. I take her to all the nice places I can find and she has a great time with me when no one else is around. She feels excited about her dad when he comes home from work but it’s not like she’d ignore me if he’s around or anything. My husband goes to my in laws i.e my mother in law and my sister in law on weekends. Both these women had a habit of trying to snatch her from me when she was a baby, my husband never got along with them before our marriage and after marriage they unleashed hell and we eventually moved far from them but he does see them regularly. They have a habit of saying things like my daughter doesn’t care if I’m around or not, or things like my daughter doesn’t like me that much and prefers her aunt to me, or my daughter is so much better around my sister in law and my husband and how she prefers all of them but me. It doesn’t help that when my daughter is around them and I try to chat with her on video she really doesn’t seem that enthusiastic to see me. I feel continuously slighted by these people and tried their best to make sure I was working round the clock and doing all the routine work while they did the fun things with her in the first year. My daughter can be quite a handful and on most days she sleeps past 2 am and I’m burnt out playing with her and taking care of everything. When I see how unenthusiastic she is to see me I feel heartbroken. I have started scolding her these days becuse she behaves badly with our dog sometimes, she bites me and stuff. I would like to point out that otherwise she is always clinging to me but only when she is around these two women does she seem a bit off. They are horrible people but I admit they do love her and she has a good time when she visits them and I would never discourage that. But as a mother whose back is literally breaking everyday I feel crushed when I have to hear things like that and my daughter’s behaviour corroborates it. I feel discouraged that my decision to be stay at home to be there for her was useless and she really doesn’t care about me.