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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the OP. I completely respect the comments that I'm probably overreacting by threatening to leave, and clearly I am under a lot of stress (mostly self-imposed). However, I don't really think you can say this isn't a problem. DH knows how much his parents' comments bother me and he has had to have very serious conversations with his mother about not making negative comments to him about me (when I am not even there). These are people who love to cut me down and he knows it. We've long since agreed to not participate in their negativity with other people, yet he feeds it when it comes to his wife. [/quote]

Clearly your husband smoked some crack before talking to his parents, OP. Sometimes people say things without fully thinking through the ramifications of their actions. I am sympathetic to this because I do it. However, I also don't take any shit from people. I understand why you're upset. Take some time to calm down. In the meantime, have your husband call his parents back and do damage control. Teach him that when his parents make cracks about the gold-digging whore you are, he is to stare at them with a look of half-boredom, a quarter pity for their stupidity in not getting it, and a quarter confusion while firmly saying, "That's not the case at all, and I don't know why you'd say that." If the in-laws are in your home when they make cracks he needs to give them one freebie with a warning. "Guys, I love you, but hate how you're talking about Larla. If you make a crack like that again, passive-aggressive or outright, I'm going to have to insist you leave." Then he has to follow through.

OP, meanwhile, you stay focused on what you need to do to get a new job. [/quote]

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