We all get this from time to time, right?
No matter how much you love your in-laws, spending a large amount of time with them can be super stressful.
Whether they do things differently to you, or your mother-in-law is just overbearing, most of the time you have to just grin and bear it.
However, this mum doesn’t know what to do as she’s away on holidays with her family and in-laws, and they’re all driving her up the wall.
She took to an online forum and wrote:
“On holiday with dp and his parents. Didn’t realise how hard it would be! Am I just being really nasty here or does anyone else get what I mean… there’s no privacy.
“Mum keeps mothering him and making remarks ‘he’s got a poorly leg watch out’, that was me just passing by his legs (dp had a motorbike incident prior to the holiday).
“I just feel suffocated. I feel I can’t complain, this was dps Christmas present from ‘us’ ,he’s paid for it all and I know I should try stay put and let them enjoy their holiday but it’s hard, we have another three nights and four days. It just feels all too much.
“Should I say something? I feel guilty for these thoughts.”
Many other parents replied to the post saying that they feel her pain, and tried to give some advice.
One said:
“If they are just being generally irritating I’d suck it up. It’s just a few days. Can you fake a headache and go and lie down with a book or go for a walk with dh leaving then with the kids.”
While another wrote:
“You will just have to brave it out, by the sounds. Try to imagine DP and in laws are on one holiday and you and kids on another. Expect to just enjoy the rest of the hol with the children and the minutiae of DP and parents is not your problem.
“Easier said than done, but worth it if you can. Some of my happiest hol memories are of little holidays I took my DSs on when they were small and I was single mum.”
How would you handle this situation?
