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We all live together...

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Oaklands · 21/11/2018 09:53

My mum has been my best friend my whole life.. so when I told her I was pregnant, She couldn't have been happier.

I was living with my mother and my brother (very close family, enjoyed living together). It was decided after I found out I was pregnant that we should move home together, and find somewhere bigger to live with my partner also (all sharing utilities etc).

We found the perfect house, moved in etc..

It's been a couple of really trying months living together. I can't actually think of a day I've had at the new house where I've been happy.

My mother and brother get on very very well with my partner but they make comments and moan to myself frequently when he is not around over ANY TINY thing.

I am very much in the middle and do not know what is right or wrong most of the time, or who I should be sticking up for etc.

My partner is very nice and not difficult to live with, he has his moments, but my mother and brother do too, yet my partner would NEVER moan to me about them?

Don't get me wrong, no body has ever publicly fallen out or rowed about anything to each other it's just when my partner is at work I seem to receive comments about him. Maybe I tell my family too much about my relationship?

I have tried to talk to my family about this and results in everybody getting upset, then it just goes back to the same situation again, I'm trying to have good days, look forward to my baby arriving, at the same time as dodging nasty comments.

I end up looking like a kept woman who will stick up for her boyfriend no matter what,which isn't the case.
It's very confusing what I should do, I feel very stressed.
I absolutely hate being in the middle.

OP posts:
Dirtybadger · 21/11/2018 20:20

Solution: move out, but relatively near by. Best of both worlds.

category12 · 21/11/2018 20:29

Try having a conversation with them at a calm time, where you ask them not to comment about your partner or criticise him to you.

Create some boundaries. They bring up a tiny thing - say "if tiny thing is a serious problem to you, you need to speak to him about it - don't put me in the middle of it." The other main boundary to draw is yours, stop making them privy to everything that goes on in your relationship.

PolkaDoting · 21/11/2018 20:46
Confused

I don’t get to, what does Wait a sekonda watch mean?

maximumcarnage · 21/11/2018 20:58

Lol that’s your take away from the thread. A wait a Sekonda watch reference. Brilliant!

beeefcake · 21/11/2018 23:40

If a woman (or your DP) came on here complaining that their MIL or BIL we bitching about them constantly the advice would, without a doubt be to get the hell out of that living arrangement. You are really lucky to have such a patient DP but his patience may just run out

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