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October 2025 Babies 🇺🇸

Sorry for long text, I feel really lonely I don’t have anyone to talk about

Please help me figure this out. I don't understand if I have postpartum depression or if my husband's family is really acting strangely. My baby is now three months old, and I feel very uncomfortable in my husband's parents' house. They often ask me questions about myself through my husband, even when I'm right there with them. Also, when his mother sends me a message, she doesn't say hello with my name, but addresses me by my baby's name in her text messages. Hi, Ellie(name of my daughter, I’m Anna )I often feel isolated in this family. Now his brother has moved here with his wife and child, and his mother loves her very much, talks to her for a long time, etc. and I just feel invisible, like some girl who looks after their granddaughter. His mom and dad often try to grab the child from my arms, even when I'm already doing something, feeding her or doing some kind of care procedure. They can stand right in front of me, reach out their hands and say, "Give her to us, we want her now," and it doesn't matter what I'm doing at the moment. I feel like I'm going crazy sometimes. I'm very tired of his family. I often lock myself in my room and cry because I want so much to move out and live separately, without stress and without feeling invisible. Our situation is not easy. My husband is finishing university, he has six months left, but at the same time he is working, and initially he said that he couldn't rent an apartment, but lately I've started talking to them every day about how I can't stand living with his family. It's hard for him to understand because he's their son, and he often doesn't see how I live.

I feel separate from their family, and honestly, I don't want to be a part of them. I only dream of my husband, my child, and me. Now I've finally convinced my husband to move away. It will be difficult, but I can't live here anymore. I can't even go out to eat in peace because I feel anxious about having to see them. Yes, they don't really ask me anything when I go out, they just take my child to play with her, but I don't want them to take her every time I go out, so I often sit in my room and even go hungry just so I don't have to see them. I understand that something is wrong with me, that I am depressed, but I am sure that it is my husband's family that makes me feel this way, because all I think about is moving away to do what I want, and I hope I will feel better.

And when my husband said that we would be moving in about a month, I felt even more stressed because I'm already thinking about it 24/7, how I want to escape from this house. When they leave to run their errands, I'm very happy, but as soon as they come back, I want to hide in my room. I don't know, maybe it's time for me to see a psychiatrist, or I hope that moving will really help me.