Terrible in-laws exist and it seems like their only job is to make life a living hell for the people around them. Whether they’re saying mean things or going out of their way to concoct horrible plans, it’s definitely anightmarefor anyone who has to deal with them. In some cases, it just makes sense to cut them off.
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She and her husband decided to block the MIL and cut her out completely, but they began receiving threatening messages from an anonymous account
The poster shared her difficult experience of having to deal with the loss of her child in her second trimester. As she mentioned, she was dealing with complex feelings of grief and, on top of that, had to console her young kid who had wanted a sister. Research onpregnancy lossfinds that it is associated with many short and long-term psychological effects including anxiety, depression, shame, and guilt. Along with all these difficult emotions, she also had to grapple with the words and actions of her devious MIL and FIL.
The most hurtful thing her MIL did was convince a relative to send her a wedding invitation asking her to RSVP for her 3 children. Her in-laws knew well enough that she had suffered a pregnancy loss and yet her MIL decided to do such a spiteful thing. The poster shared that she felt like she had got a “gut punch” after reading the invitation.
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Instead, the devious actions of the OP’s in-laws made her consider cutting all contact with them. Initially, she was planning to wait because her MIL’s mother had passed away, and she felt it would be extremely hurtful to gono contactthen. But, after the incident with the invitation, she realized it was time. She also told commenters, “a big push for me to finally pull the trigger so to speak is my now five year old telling me that fil makes him feel unsafe and he doesn’t like how mil and fil make him feel.”
Netizens couldn’t believe the woman didn’t cut her MIL off sooner and empathized with the difficult situation she was dealing with
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