She Told Her Mother-In-Law To Stop Questioning Her Parenting Because She Was Never Even A Good Mom

fizkes - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
fizkes - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

This 36-year-old woman’s teenage daughter recently graduated high school, and she couldn’t be any prouder – especially since she didn’t get to graduate herself.

However, in her eyes, her daughter “made it” and will be attending UCLA in the fall.

Her 61-year-old mother-in-law, on the other hand, has an issue with how she parents her daughter. More specifically, her mother-in-law believes that she shouldn’t be assisting her daughter past the age of 18.

“In her mindset, she thinks when kids turn 18, they should be out of the house, and if they’re not out of the house, they should [pay] bills,” she explained.

Quite frankly, though, she just never was “that type of parent.” In fact, she finds parents who cut their kids loose as soon as they turn 18 to be “weird.”

But, it makes sense to her why her mother-in-law thinks that’s the right way to parent since all of her mother-in-law’s children were kicked out upon becoming of legal age. In fact, her mother-in-law even claimed her kids should “fend for themselves.”

As for why all of this is relevant, now that her daughter has graduated, her mother-in-law actually believes that her daughter should be out of the house already.

“But that’s not going to happen because my daughter can stay. This is her home, too,” she said.

Well, after she made her own perspective clear, her mother-in-law actually claimed that she was going to “ruin” her daughter since the teen needed to learn what it was like to be an adult.

fizkes – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

“To speak ill about your grandchild is weird,” she admitted.

“My mother-in-law even told me my daughter would never make it in life. This was giving jealousy and projection. I wasn’t going to let her trash my daughter at all.”

So, she wound up saying that her daughter wasn’t going anywhere. Then, she told her mother-in-law to stop questioning her parenting and mind her own business since her mother-in-law was never a good mom to her own kids.

“Don’t worry, she won’t be seeing my kids again, and my husband and I have talked about it,” she vented.

Still, she’s not sure if telling her mother-in-law off and saying she was never a good mom was the wrong way to handle this situation or not.

Do you think that kids should be cut loose once they turn 18 or not? Either way, was her mother-in-law overstepping by commenting on her parenting? Did she handle this appropriately or not?

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Katharina Buczek graduated from Stony Brook University with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Digital Arts. Specializing ... More about Katharina Buczek

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