"But for some reason, my MIL has decided she gets to narrate my future. She keeps making comments about how I won't have more children, and the most recent one really annoyed me. She said maybe I'm soaking up this stage so much because 'it's probably going to be your last and you won't get to experience this again.' Who told her that? Because it sure wasn't me."
"And as if that wasn't enough, she's now started making comments about my mental health, too. I haven't been diagnosed with anything, I don't have postpartum depression, and I've never given anyone a reason to think otherwise. But she's talking like it's inevitable. She even said that if I were 'suicidal' she would take my kids so I could 'go to the hospital and get help.'"
"My future FIL asked my fiancé to cut our guest list so he could invite his friends. His parents are divorced, and we set a rule that no one's parents, even my own, are allowed to invite their friends. My fiancé put his foot down with his father, and his dad just hung up the phone. We have a budget for 100 guests and are inviting 120, with the understanding that some may not be able to attend due to distance."
A mother-in-law asserted control over family planning by claiming a current child stage would be the last despite no such decision. The same mother-in-law began speculating about mental illness, denying diagnosis absence and suggesting inevitability, even threatening to remove children if the parent became 'suicidal.' A future father-in-law attempted to force changes to a wedding guest list to invite his friends, violating agreed rules and prompting the fiancé to refuse, which led to the father hanging up. Budgetary limits and specific parental contributions factor into the wedding invitation conflict.
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