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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Take my mother-in-law. Please.
"I swear I won't be in the way. I just want to help."
RIGHT.
Get out of my kitchen, woman! And stop trying to tell me how to take care of my baby, since you haven't done it yourself for about 35 years.
Re: Take my mother-in-law. Please.
I know your pain.
Growing Up Olson
I swear there is a misguided class they take some place called "how to help your DIL when Baby comes" (taught by the doozy of all unhelpful MILs and secretly designed to have the new mom end up in a padded room so MIL can raise her son's offspring as she sees fit.)
Spirit of Power
Eat, Drink, and be Keri
Ah, I see your MIL has adopted the "Smother-them-with-too-much-love-and-advice" approach. It's very common to see this develop after the birth of a first grandchild. My MIL was great before we were pregnant, a little needy during our first pregnancy and bugged me to no end right after her first visit as the Grandma. All I can say is that it gets better - they get less attentive and figure out how to stay out of your way more.
Plus on a serious note, I bet it's hard to go from being a mom for 30+ years to a grandma role where your "advice" isn't always wanted or needed. As a future MIL, I can totally see trying to hold back my "advice" but also secretly thinking I know a little better. Yup, someday my DILs will be venting about me on TheFuturisticNest.
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And herein lies another dilemma. She bought an open-ended ticket, and my father-in-law has now joined her with an open-ended ticket of his own. We were thinking they wouldn't stay past Friday; yesterday they announced they can stay until Sunday. So if we ask them to leave earlier, we come off as the bad guys.
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I've been trying to break her of the "mom" role for a while.
We came home from the hospital to find she had FOLDED OUR UNDERWEAR.
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Ah, see I'm totally not someone you should listen to b/c if my mom or MIL does laundry for us, I wouldn't think twice and would probably thank her for folding our underwear. I know they have done this for our whole family before. Truth be told, if I do their laundry (which is really rare) I don't think twice about folding their clothes either.
Now if she cleaned your underwear drawer without asking and folded undies that are normally just tossed in...that is weird.
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