In-Law help!

red_devil

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

My in-laws would never come and visit us at Xmas, or any other time of the year.

It would always be down to us to go and collect presents from them for Xmas/Birthdays.

The one year though, Mil left the presents in the porch, rang the doorbell and drove away! :eek: We were in, so she could have seen the kids. I sent her a text not long after, thanking her for the presents, but asking that she didn't do it again as it was very rude. After that I made sure I locked the porch so she couldn't leave anything in there and they would be in full view outside.

These days though she usually just sends a card in the post with £20 inside.

does she ever see them?

Abbafan1972

red_devil wrote: »

does she ever see them?

Not for more than a year no.

We were always expected to take the kids round there. She would ring on the Friday and say "can I have the kids Saturday/Sunday", we could never make any plans ourselves. Also, racing the greyhounds was more important.

She would have plenty of opportunity to see them during School holidays, but she won't come up here to see them. They live half a mile away.

We got sick of jumping through hoops for her, so we stopped contact.

CH27

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

Not for more than a year no.

We were always expected to take the kids round there. She would ring on the Friday and say "can I have the kids Saturday/Sunday", we could never make any plans ourselves. Also, racing the greyhounds was more important.

She would have plenty of opportunity to see them during School holidays, but she won't come up here to see them. They live half a mile away.

We got sick of jumping through hoops for her, so we stopped contact.

That's so sad.

*Louise*

**dancingbutterfly** wrote: »

Id love to just call her and have a nice chat...but he wont let me...

He won't 'let' you?

So he won't stand up to his parents...but you won't stand up to him either?

So now you have been coerced into doing what you don't want to on Xmas day and you will be left feeling resentful about it

**dancingbutterfly**

*Louise* wrote: »

He won't 'let' you?

So he won't stand up to his parents...but you won't stand up to him either?

So now you have been coerced into doing what you don't want to on Xmas day and you will be left feeling resentful about it

He definitely wont stand up to his parents...he wont stand up to anybody to be honest

Over christmas I'll definitely have words with them if he likes it or not because it really has been bothering me.

And yep to your second point