She isn't known for her tact. Her communications skills are rubbish especially by email and phone and she often says awful things. I don't think she means harm but some are awful. Example - when I had my dd2 - she said "oh what another girl?"
When I was going back to work after Dd1 reluctantly full time (bearing in mind she stopped work when pregnant and never returned ) she said - "oh that will be dreadful. You will never cope".
We are visiting soon and I'm not far off returning work after dd2. I am dreading the comments about my working pattern and childcare arrangements (by full time this time but still).
Im massively sensitive about this all. I'm dreading going back and any negative comments from anyone will be hard to take.
How do I handle this without being incredibly rude.
She really has no idea how lucky she was that my dad enabled her to stay at home with the kids.
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plumpjuicyraspberry · 16/08/2013 09:21
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