My mother-in-law doesn’t help with the kids, even if I ask her to stay for an hour. She lives nearby, alone, she could have spent a weekend with them. But she says that having children is our decision and she has nothing to do with it. I was especially hurt that she raised her children, I should do that too, and not shift the responsibilities of motherhood to others.
I no longer have a mother, so it’s doubly hurtful for the children that the only grandmother and such a selfish woman. At meetings with friends, she finds time to sit in a cafe, and even like to go somewhere to rest. Other grandmothers take their grandchildren with them, and ours likes the comfort.
I don’t understand how anyone can not love their own grandchildren? She has no others, her daughter is not married yet, although she is already 37. When I talk to other mothers on my walk, I also hear criticism, and it is about mothers-in-law. Mothers-in-law help, love grandchildren, and mothers of husbands behave like this for some reason. Or love one grandchild and not the other. Especially if they are the daughter’s children.
She is the grandmother of three grandchildren. Always complained that the kids loved their grandfather more than her. Why this is so, nobody knows, she does everything for them, buys, cooks, and the grandfather only plays.
I read a lot of stories when they don’t want to look after the old people. I always condemn such children, but sometimes I think that maybe so much resentment and hatred has already accumulated that it’s hard to get over it all?
