A new mom has shared how she was left fuming after her mother-in-law demanded that her husband drive their 6-week-old baby to visit her.
The woman explained that she did not get along well with her husband’s mother but she would still welcome her mother-in-law inside their home to see her grandchild.
However, her MIL wanted her son to take her 6-week-old daughter even though she lived four hours away. She also didn’t want his wife to travel with them.
“My daughter is 6 weeks old. Her grandma already saw her via video calls but lately, she has been pressuring my husband to bring our daughter to her,” the woman wrote on Reddit. “She lives 4hrs away and she told him she didn’t want me to come along.”
The new mom said that her initial response was ‘no’ because her daughter cannot go anywhere without her.
“My husband tried to argue saying if it’s about feeding then he’ll get formula but I told him it’s not about that. He got mad at me and said that I’m being unreasonable to keep our daughter away from her grandma.”
The woman told her husband that their daughter is still too young to travel.
“He asked me to explain how many ‘years’ his mom has to wait and then said it was no huge deal but I’m making it that way,” she continued.
“We had an argument and I refused to let him take her. He got angrier and called his family who tried to get me to agree to this but I kept refusing. AITA for refusing and rejecting the whole idea?”
Her in-laws also said that her mother-in-law just wanted to respect the boundaries she established.
People on Reddit were on the new mom’s side, with one person commenting: “I have a six-week old and I would never agree to this. Why can’t she come to visit you? And her telling your husband you can’t come is ridiculous. Because of that alone, she wouldn’t be seeing my baby.”
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