Dear Mother-in-Law,
Butt out of my family. While I appreciate your offers to "help" us with our financial situation, it is no so bad that we need to start putting our bills in your name and opening our finances to you so that you can "oversee" them. I also am not interested in moving into a home that you buy so that you can be our landlord. I have never had any trouble making my rent payment, and I only see this as another attempt to manipulate my family into moving closer to you since all other pleading has fallen on deaf ears.
Your son is 29 years old. His children come before you do, and I resent the fact that you make him choose between neglecting his kids that need him, and you who does not. That is what you do when you won't let him off the phone to take care of the kids. You actually get mad at him for not putting you first. Get over it, and go smother your 13 year old, instead.
Speaking of which: he's getting sick of your over-mothering as well. He'd like to decide on his own hairstyle for once, and he's sick of you telling everyone he "almost died" just because you fell out of a boat and he *almost* did. You embarrass him. He's told me this.
Oh, and my sons? They are my kids. MINE! Stop referring to them as "my babies". And stop making them promises so that you look like favorite grandma, and then take them back and leave me to explain why they can't go see grandma like she said. You are unreliable, and you wonder why I won't let you tell them plans for trips ahead of time.
Final note: remember when I first started dating your son? You told him that if he married me, his kids would never know their grandmother. Yeeeaaaahhh. Funny how things change, huh? Bet you didn't know your son told me that, either. and then you actually have the nerve to ask your son why it seems like I don't feel close to you.
Someday, lady. Someday, I will tell you exactly what I think of you. For now, I bide my time.

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Jesilyn » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:09 pm