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newtothis03's picture

So I know I have vented before about DH's family. Well here we go again:

I guess you can say we were having a "couple" night with his aunt, uncle, grandmother, and grandfather. All the men were grilling outside, which left me inside with the ILs. They were asking me about the wedding, which is in little over a month and a half. I politely answered their questions. When I went shopping for my dress, I only took my mother and sister. My maid of honor lives out of state. For some reason his family felt they should have been invited and it hurt their feelings they weren't included. It was nice to just spend the day with my mother. Why they couldn't understand that was beyond me. Then they went on to ask me about the flower girl. Originally, I had wanted SD to be the flower girl. But after several discussion with the future hubby, we both decided she was still a bit young (1 1/2) and it really wouldn't be worth the fight with BM. So I asked a friend if her little girl would be up for the job. Well that just seemed to offend his grandmother and of course his aunt went on the defense for the BM...saying how hard it would be for her that SD was included in OUR big day when she is single. blah blah blah....thats pretty much what I hear. Then his aunt really sent me into orbit. DH gets SD every Wed, but since we are going to be on our honeymoon, he was going to request to have it be moved to that Fri (the CO states that as long as we give a 2 weeks notice for change in visitation, she has to oblige) anyway, the aunt decides she wants DH's visitation day and states she is just going to ask BM if she can have SD that Wed instead. Um..HELLO....I quickly stated that maybe rather than assuming DH would just want to give up a visitation day, she needed to ask him first rather than go straight to BM. His aunt's reply: "Well I know BM will let me keep her....plus at least she will be with DH's family on that visitation day"...my simple reply "That's not what I said. You need to speak with DH first. It's his day, his decision if he wants to just hand it over to you." She got mad and didn't really talk to me the rest of the night. But I am so sick of them doing that. Completely not caring how DH feels or his opinion on the matter. DH later asked me after we got home what the tension was about and I told him. He was pissed needless to say. And i told him as kindly as I could that I was almost to the point of not wanting anything to do with them. I mean what other options so we have

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bi's picture

this kind of bullshit is exactly why fdh and i have decided that when we get married, we're taking off to vegas for a weekend and telling no one except whoever we decide to leave bs with. not my dream wedding, i always wanted the church, guests, big cake, etc, but it's not worth it to me to have to deal with the bullshit that i know sd and his sm would bring, and i would have to worry about my own mother ruining everything with her drunken bitch stupidity. so vegas it is. and they can be just as pissed off as they want to be, i don't give a F.

newtothis03's picture

You're right, i have no bio children of my own. And the DH and BM were never married, nor a couple. They were more of what you call "bed buddies" from time to time. She would bring him booze and they would have sex. DH knows none of her family and that's the way BM wants it. She does not send or give him pics or videos of SD. We have tried to give her a few pics we had made of SD but she refused. Said she had some of her own. BM knows his some family because of how visitation was originally set up before the final CO.
I never said it was wrong for them to visit with the child, but she planned to just take DH's visitation day. And that's exactly how she worded it. She would just ask BM if she could have his visitation day. And having dealt with the BM.....she would count it as DH's visitation day. I simply told her she needed to discuss that with DH before just assuming DH didn't want his visitation that day.

imjustthemaid's picture

Thats such crap!! My inlaws try to stick their nose where it doesn't belong also. When we were planning our wedding, MIL and SD (11 at the time) picked out SD's flower girl dress. Um hello, no one asked her to be flower girl and I had a 5 yr old daughter of my own. So me and DH planned our wedding to be just us two, my parents and his parents. His parents were so mad we didn't involve the kids, they didn't even give us a card or a present!! I had to get my exh's exwife (my exsd's BM) to watch the kids overnight for me!!

Now I don't even call my inlaws at all. I stay far away from the crazy!!

newtothis03's picture

I'm about there myself. I really liked them at first but the more I get to know them, the less I like them.

Frustr8d1's picture

It IS such crap! My inlaws did the same right before we got married. We had a small wedding in our backyard and invited everyone. But, the inlaws decided not to come and they didn't give us a present or even a card. Not even a phone call! Ever since that day, it has been one insult after another from inlaws...and it's always because they are sticking their nose in our business with SD. They never even care or ask about their OTHER grandchild--the one I had with DH!

I don't call the inlaws at all either. After 5 years, I gave up trying to reach out to them.