I know this post is going Ronald me sound like an ungrateful brat - & I can assure you I am not at all...... But.....
My DP and I had worked out what out of the big stuff we were each going to buy for the baby ie cot pram etc.
Iv bought everything on my list and he was supposed to be getting the pram & car seat on his next weekend home (he's in the army).
However yesterday I had lunch with his Mum & she insisted that she's going to buy us the pram & car seat! Now it's not that I don't appreciate her offer, but I'm finding it hard to accept anything from her. We've had problems for years, Shes a nightmare and her offer isn't coming from a genuine place. She hates that I'm pregnant - even told DP to force to me to have a termination. She has 7 sisters who are all asking what she's bought for the baby & questions about how my pregnancy is going etc. Yesterday was the 1st time iv seen her in months. She pretends to her sisters - who don't live in the UK that everything is great, & she even admitted yesterday she's embarrassed that she doesn't no what's going on - she hasn't tried to find out. Her buying the pram & car seat is a way to make herself feel better and look better to her sisters, not because she actually wants to help me & my DP. I'm really uncomfortable with her buying major items we need because I no she will use it as a way to control us (previous experience).
Also my niggle number 2: if she does buy these things my partner won't have to buy the expensive things in his list of things to buy - not fair iv bought all my bits already!
I no neither of these things should be bugging me that they are so thought I'd rant here.
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