Mother in law
Is everyone having such a hard time with the mother in law? My wifes Mom is a nice person, but she keeps asking these strange questions over and over again in the same conversation. “Are you sick yet?” – “Do you have depressions?” – “You know, you can tell me if you have depressions. It’s ok.” – “Is Christoph treating you well?” – “Do you have depressions?” -> and so on. It’s almost like that she cannot accept that Simone is having a really good pregnancy. No, it almost makes the impression that if we do not report something negative she does not believe us. Very annoying and actually causing us to become stressed about it. From the past we also know – if you do not have problems to report, people seem to care less. They only want to hear about problems. Good news – that is boring. 
No matter what I do or say anyway – her Mom will never believe it. She will always think that I am putting Simone down all the time and she is not treated well by me. That hurts, but what do you want to do about it? Her friends are the same way and so she gets ‘confirmation’ that she is right all the time. And of course – all her friends have their grand childs and kids around the corner (and under control). It’s just us living so far away. Something can’t be right then ……
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