My MIL is a very religious lady and I have never quite felt good enough. She has become extremely opinionated in recent years, very openly homophobic although my best friend is gay, correcting the way I pronounce words as I’m from the North and my husband the South, knows best about everything and always correcting us. The list goes on.
Most of the time I can let things roll by but my patience is wearing thin. We haven’t visited since the summer (when we stayed for 2 weeks) as we have a young baby and also have just moved house which was a very stressful experience. MIL has visited us once in this period. After what should’ve been a nice weekend, I have just openly been told ‘you haven’t visited us at all this year’, ‘I was hoping you’d stay longer this weekend’, and encouraging my daughter to stay up until 10pm last night as ‘you’re leaving early tomorrow anyway!’. She also openly said ‘Santa is Stupid… have you told her Santa isn’t real’ in front of my 4 year old who is so excited by the idea of Santa this year. My husband doesn’t see it at all and says all I do is moan about his Mum. We are going back to stay twice over the next month and I’m already dreading the comments. I would love a close relationship and feel as though I try my best but it seems our relationship is getting more tense as the years go on.
If you got this far, any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. Am I just being sensitive?