She Rejected Her Mother-In-Law’s Offer To Throw Her A Baby Shower, Yet Let Her Own Mom Have One For Her, So Now Her Mother-In-Law Thinks She Doesn’t Like Her
This 28-year-old woman and her husband, 31, are having their first child soon.
She will be having their son within the next few days, and even though she and her husband hadn’t planned this pregnancy, they are over the moon about becoming parents.
Leading up to the birth, they’ve been purchasing everything for their baby because they didn’t think they wanted to have a baby shower.
“Both my husband and I are very private people, and we didn’t fully tell our families, our parents, or our siblings until I was four to five months along. We also told them the gender, and they were overjoyed,” she said.
After breaking the news about their pregnancy, her mother-in-law said that she wanted to host a baby shower for them.
Because she and her husband hadn’t yet told anyone else outside of their families, and they wanted to keep it that way, she didn’t feel too comfortable with the idea of having a baby shower.
“Our initial plan was to just show up one day with our baby boy in a car seat and surprise everyone. She said it would just be something small with her friends and family, and I thanked her and said no,” she explained.
At the time, her mother-in-law dropped the subject, but a couple of weeks later, she mentioned the idea again.
Her mother-in-law said that she and her husband should really think about letting her throw them a shower so that they could receive gifts for the baby from the guests (who would include her mother-in-law’s friends and sister).
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However, this wasn’t appealing to her, and she didn’t feel like she and her husband needed gifts that badly.
The months passed, and she and her husband were prepared for their son’s birth and had purchased everything they could think of that they’d need.
“My mom mentioned buying a nice dress for pictures. I thought that she had something up her sleeve, and she did. She said that my side of the family was planning a little baby shower and wanted to include everyone. At this point, everyone in our families knew since we had get-togethers, and there was no hiding the bump,” she shared.
She agreed to the baby shower, and then her mother asked her husband to invite his mother and aunt.
Unfortunately, her mother-in-law now seems to think that she doesn’t like her since she kept rejecting her idea of throwing a baby shower yet accepted the offer from her mother to have her own side of the family host the shower.
For her, the issue she had with her mother-in-law’s idea was that her mother-in-law would have invited her own friends and sister, whom she didn’t know. But her mother wanted her mother-in-law and her husband’s whole family to be invited, so it made more sense to her.
Unfortunately, her mother-in-law’s feelings were hurt, and the situation has gotten messy as a result.
Do you think she was wrong to reject her mother-in-law’s offer to throw her a baby shower but accepted the offer from her mother?
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