I went to Meijer today and got some groceries. I picked up some chicken Alfredo, Gatorade and some sushi. I totally forgot to get some hair conditioner. Ugh
I went next door to pick up my girls. I was supposed to get back by 3pm to pick them up.
My mothe-in-law asked me what I picked up for supper. I told her mac and cheese. She asked if it was just Mac and cheese and I said yes. She said that wouldn’t go over well in her house and that her husband would have to have meat with it.
I told her that just having Mac n cheese was okay and that you didn’t need anything else with it. I then was grilled about what meat we had in the house that I could add to it.
Seriously, what I bought wasn’t good enough for her. I didn’t have any extra thawed cooked meat to add to it wasn’t good enough.
I did talk to my husband about it and expressed how I wasn’t good enough for her. He said she has a narrow walk that she has with her life and if someone doesn’t fit into that narrow path then she comes down on them harder. He did agree that she comes down on me harder than some people and he would talk to her.
After 13 years of marriage I honestly don’t think he will do it. He has never stood up to his mom. Ever. Even when she called me backwards and said I was raised wrong.
I also think that my husband gaslighted me tonight.
He said I have a tendency to rewrite things in my mind that happen. Then he said that he would talk to his mom. I know he’s trying to make it seem like things didn’t happen the way they did and that I’m overreacting.
He’s said things like this before. Him and his family are one of the reasons I don’t want to have anymore kids. I honestly would love to have another child. But I don’t want it with him.
Brutal honesty there. I said it. I didn’t mind all the doctors appointments and the monitoring I had.
What I did mind was the terrorizing that his mother did to me while I was pregnant. He never stood up to her. He just let her do it. He took her side on things.
That’s why I don’t think he’ll have a talk with his mom.
The quiet mouse 