Most of you on here will know about my issues with my MIL, which extend into issues with my dh, who won't stand up to her and refuses to let me do it.
She phoned 12 times yesterday, basically to tell us that she has bought ds a whole of plastic shite for Xmas - which we specifically asked her not to do. I can't say anything to her about it - even politely and nicely - as she will take huge offence at anything we say against her, and will then refuse to speak to us, will stop the rest of the family speaking to us and this will all upset dh hugely.
So we are off to visit them today, to have lunch and do the Xmas thing with them. We spent Xmas day with just the three of us this year and MIL is hugely upset that we saw my family yesterday rather than going to them first, and has already said that it's their "turn" next year to have us on Xmas day - which is just not going to happen. This is just like her, to start a fight about next Christmas already!
She just makes me so angry - and it's making me really mad that I can't say anything to her because get hugely upset and start going on about everything she's done to help us (none of which we asked for, btw) and how they can't afford to replace the carpet in their house because they've spent all their money on ds and us - we didn't ask them to.
Give me some ways to cope please - amusing suggestions most welcome, i need a laugh.