A pregnant woman spoke out and spared a debate after slamming her “meddling” mother-in-law.
The anonymous lady in question revealed she and her husband are preparing to welcome their third baby while taking care of two children under the age of five.
She further revealed that she always keeps her home clean to the best of her abilities and that she mops the floors and vacuum cleans the house before her in-laws visit.
This, however, doesn’t stop her mother-in-law from interfering and taking the cleaning of her house into her own hands every time she visits.
“We have two under fives and our house is in the process of being sorted out for our expected third baby. It’s clean. I did the hoovering, mopped the floors, etc. before the in-laws came to visit. It’s tidy in the way a toddler-filled house can be. It’s not minimalist retiree tidy,” the stressed-out expecting mom wrote in her Mumsnet post.
The lady then revealed that her mother-in-law started putting things away and vacuum cleaning moments after entering her home.
She added: “I have children with special educational needs. So stations of things we use daily like mood boards were swept into random places. It wasn’t the type of thing where there was an obvious toy box and she was just putting them back.
“It was like she had deemed it not tidy enough and was implementing her own random system.”
As the mom insisted, she likes to know where everything is and doesn’t want help from her mother-in-law.
“For context, I wouldn’t tidy up in someone’s house unprompted but I’d get my kids and I to help when tidying was happening, or offer it at an appropriate time,” she concluded.
After asking the internet if she was right for getting upset by her mother-in-law’s action, the woman received divided responses with some women suggesting they would be furious too and others saying the in-laws probably just wanted to help.
“My mother-in-law used to do this and it is infuriating. One time she tidied inside my wardrobe but the one I completely lost my rag over was when she wiped out my cutlery drawer,” one person wrote.
Another argued: “But you know she means well and just wants to be useful, so hard to be too cross surely?”
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