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[quote=Anonymous]We recently moved to be closer to our parents because we needed help with our two very young children. What we thought would be help, has been more work than we could have possibly imagined. My MIL is constantly criticizing everything I do as a parent. She watches my every move, makes notes, and then emails DH with a report on all the things I have done that she finds unacceptable (DS not dressed warmly enough, not wearing socks in the house, eating while standing up, etc.). She will even research something on the web that I have done as proof that I'm wrong and send it to him.  At first DH would share these with me, but now he tries to protect my from the criticism and doesn't tell me about them. This is both good and bad because now he holds all of this, plus his incredibly demanding job, and the enormous challenge of helping me raise two children on his very full plate. I also work FT and we are both doing the absolute best we can for our wonderful children. We consider two happy healthy sleeping babies at the end of the day success.

We are already in counseling and that has been very good for us.. but my MIL is taking a severe toll on my mental health and I'm really worried about its impact on our future. Do we cut them out of our lives or ignore the criticism?  Anyone else BTDT?

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