How Should I Handle This?

Question: Dear Luise:  My sister n law and I have the same group of friends and she constantly talks bad about my inlaws  to everyone. She would rarely let my mother in law see her child, and would complain about everything she did. Now on the days I leave my child with my mother in law she brings her toddler over there. She is expecting another child and has made comments that she is going to leave it with our mother in law so she can have her time. This wouldn’t be that big of a deal if she has always depended on my mother in law, but I feel like she is doing this to be vindictive. My mother in law can’t say anything to her because she enjoys see her grandbaby since she rarely got to see him before. but a toddler and two infants is too much of one person to handle. how should I handle this? A.

Answer: Dear A.: I would stay completely out of it, if I were you. It is your mother in law’s job to learn to say no or pay the consequences. It you intervene, you will likely get caught in the middle and nothing will change.

You might want to bring this issue over to my Web-forum for some additional feedback and support:  www.WiseWomenUnite.com . Blessings, Luise

About Luise Volta

Luise’s long life has brought her to being the great grandmother of four teenagers. Born in 1927, the miles in between her teens and theirs have been full of falling and getting up, learning and growing and then falling and getting up again. A normal, though not simple, process. She has had diverse careers in nursing, teaching preschool, interior design, Real Estate sales, insurance adjusting and dairy herd testing. She’s lived in the Mid-west, South and West Coast. Luise is married to the love of her life, Val, born in 1911. Their little terrier, “Rosa,” makes most of the major decisions at their house, (or thinks she does).

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