My husband keeps inviting people without asking

First he invited his friend from work (who is also my friend now) to be there in the room while I give birth. He didn't ask me beforehand so I had to go along with it because I didn't want to say actually you can't go..then he keeps inviting his mom to tag along on our plans, he even invited her to MY niece's birthday party! I tried asking him nicely to just run it by me first before inviting other people to things but he flipped out on me and tried to say it's because I hate his mom. No if I hated her I wouldn't have spent almost $400 on her Christmas present this year and every time she comes over, I end up being the only one hanging out with her the whole time. Ugh I just needed to vent..

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I’m sorry did you say your husband invited a colleague to witness you giving birth??! 😳

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If you haven't had your baby yet, you can absolutely say no to them being there!! It's YOU who is in that extremely vulnerable state, YOU who is going to be in pain and working hard, it's YOU who gets to decide who's there, I know it can be incredibly hard to stand up for yourself sometimes and put in your own boundaries, but in this situation you really need to

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Also as a sidenote, I fully get your frustration with him inviting people without talking to you about it, but as he's your husband surely your niece is also his niece? I totally get different family dynamics but it seems a bit odd to have a separation like that when you're literally married

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@Nikita yes 🤦‍♀️and we've barley only known her for a little over a year now.

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@Lauren I almost let her be in the room because I didn't want to go through the awkward conversation of uninviting her but I did end up telling her no. Also with him inviting my mother in law to my neices birthday it was more of the principle to ask atleast my sister first. Also she is at our house all the time inviting herself over to stay the night. I just would rather have some time away from her for a little bit :/

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that is really odd, I don’t know what is more strange him inviting her or her accepting 😕 something feels off about that particular situation

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oh that's good, I'm glad you were able to say no! Yeah that's totally fair, I absolutely get where you're coming from and I'd be really annoyed too!

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