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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIL is going to lose her mind when the baby comes. Is she going to empty out and wash the bottles?[/quote]

OP here. I guess we won’t be finding out, as DH and I left earlier than planned and have agreed that it’s best if we stay in a hotel going forward. We wouldn’t want MIL and FIL to be upset by any mess we might make with a new baby in their house. They can come to us, or perhaps we’ll stay with MIL’s sister, DH’s favorite aunt, who lives close to MIL. She’s a really easygoing hostess.

Thanks all for the perspectives![/quote]

Just remember when they come to visit you, OP, that it apparently is OK to impose and enforce arbitrary, ridiculous rules on your guests, because it's your house.  Coffee is only served from 7-7:15 each day, or you are "issued one glass" each morning and you have to use that glass, and only that glass, all day.  I, and I am sure others, would be happy to provide other suggestions.  [/quote]

DP. I laughed, because I immediately thought about "decorative" glasses that were placed on every flat surface. But seriously, don't try to hurt other people. It doesn't make it better for anyone. Just draw your own boundaries and let them draw theirs. If she doesn't want to see a glass out in the wild, then fine -- but if her intense fixations bother her guests, then they don't have to be guests.

It's a problem whenever we try to bring more misery into the world. This includes trying to poke the bear of people who aren't too great at hospitality just as much as it includes those who try to fetishize their own mental health problems as being somehow pure, or superior, or somehow laudatory.

Neutral territory for gatherings is highly, highly underrated. [/quote]

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