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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have to think that some of the defense of the wife and the son's lack of weighing in at all is influenced by people's experiences/perceptions of overbearing MILs.

1. You have a best friend you talk to one or more times a day. She is happily married and you like the husband well enough. Over dinner one day with that couple, the husband informs you that they are going on vacation and won’t be talking to anyone at all for two weeks. Your best friend says nothing at all. Mute.  Do you not mention this at all to your friend? You don’t bring it up because doing so would undermine them as “a married unit” and hearing from the husband is basically the same as hearing from your good friend?  You have no questions for her?

2. Or, if it was the husband in this scenario that delivered the message to his MIL?  You, as MIL, watch your daughter sit silently as you hear this from your son-in-law? You don't follow up?

Again, no issues with the decision itself.  It is fine.  But it is odd that the person with the primary relationship to OP did not speak at all.  And to have some questions, even just "That will be interesting.  How did you guys decide to do that?  Do you think it will be a challenge for you to not be in contact with anyone? I was told "no screens", are you really not going to check news or social media?  Impressive!" [/quote]

The people defending the wife here would cut their own spouses off from all outside contact themselves if they could.[/quote]

Wow! I hope you didn't break your legs jumping so high to make that leap. Where did you come to this conclusion?

Also how do you not acknowledge the MIL's creepiness and enmeshment here?[/quote]

Original PP- so how would you react in both of the scenarios I described?

And FWIW, I acknowledge, and have acknowledged, the OP's odd response.  (But I do think it is telling that she is so frequently referred to as a "MIL" when that is not the primary relationship at issue...) [/quote]

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