I come from a family of quite rational people who don't have high expectations of me, they're happy to see me when they do and are happy for me to go when I'm ready.
MIL isn't like this at all.
She is extremely over bearing and after asking her to keep a bit of distance between her and DS and I, she has treated me very coldly eber since. This is fine. Whatever.
What I find completely bizarre is the way she then acts around DS when she sees him. When we visited this week, she was waiting in the drive way for us and scrambled to the car, yanked open the door and shrieked "oh, he's here, MY baby!"
It was all a little strange and over the top. We only live a mile away from her and she sees DS every couple of weeks for a good few hours at a time, so hardly like she ever sees him.
She obsesses over DS all the time, wants to know everything he's doing, what he's eating, thinks she hears him when she's walking down the street and is always disappointed to see it's another child. It's like she thinks I've stolen HER baby or something. It's weird.
She's even been talking of building another house on her land and has mentioned us moving in to it (not a chance.) She buys DS things and never gives them to us, but leaves them at her own house such as bedding etc. I find it a bit creepy tbh. I've mentioned it to DH who thinks her behaviour is 'sweet.'
Is it sweet or just plain strange?