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What’s something (or multiple things) your mother in law has said to you that have made you cringe or left you shook?

I’ll go first, mine always says off handed remarks to me because I don’t give my son juice and I only allow sugary sweets with supervision, anyways she told me that when her boys where little, she took them off of formula and started giving them Carnation milk at 6 MONTHS old and she fed her 10 day old rice water with oatmeal because he wouldn’t sleep all night. lol

We get along and she respects my boundaries but I definitely think it’s so funny how statements like “look at them (my husband) he’s fine,” get used.

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When I split up with my ex at 13 weeks pregnant and he moved in his mums, she voice noted me saying how “thrilled” and “ecstatic” he was to move back in with her and they hadn’t stopped reminiscing about all the good times 🤢

My MIL told me I focus to much on my husband, or as she put it "you are to obsessed with him thats why he will never appreciate you". She cheated on my husbands father and my husband was an accident baby from her sleeping with her best friends bf(hubby's dad). Still upsets me that she could say I love and care for my husband to much.

I got the rice water one also! And when my son was around 3 months old she wanted me to have him sleep with a pillow. I love her and we get along great but sometimes her old school thinking is so strange

We moved countries and hadn't found a church we were happy with yet, and my husband had the idea of our Pastor from our home country doing a baptism service over Skype and then my husband could do the actual baptism. My MIL said "aw what a nice idea, too bad she won't go to heaven as it won't count" I was shook that she could say that about her own granddaughter that wasn't even a year old yet..

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