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everytime i say anything about my dd, my mum turns the conversation onto her fav gc, my newphew

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greenhummingbird · 09/02/2008 20:25

everytime i say anything about my dd,my mother says something about her fav gc, my newphew
and tbh im finding it pretty upsetting

yes mum always favoured on of her three and now there child is the fav grandson

he is almost 2 my dd is 7 months

anytime i ever say anything
she always brings the conversation round to fav gc
she has 6 btw
and never mentions the others

for example even the other day i say oh [dd, only just got a tooth] oh dd really liked having her teth brushed she would say say x loves having his brushed too

even i say say negative things like im a bit shattered today dd hasnt had a nap allday she would say well x always had a nap everyday
never ever mentioning the other gc
just the fav one

its like she never responds to anything i say about my dd, just turns the conversation around to her fav gc
and because hes older i hear all the oh x has learnt how to this or that, and i nicely reply with things like oh thats good or great or say how well hes doing
but anytime i say anything about dd she always turns it around it her fav gc

what would you do?

just be nice if one in a blue moon i said something like, oh dd got on well with having her tooth brushed, she even liked it
my mum could just say oh thats good isnt it or whatever
without having to constantly bring heer fav gc into it

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greenhummingbird · 09/02/2008 21:18

tell me if you think im being over sensitive

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cory · 10/02/2008 15:31

I did have similar feelings for a while, but am now getting round to the view that in my case it probably wasn't intentional, it was more about keeping up her end of the conversation. Like two mums chatting about corresponding experiences. Particularly since we don't live close, so other grandchild [is] her corresponding experience.
But it can be annoying.

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