Reply to Resent husband and his sibling over care of Mother in Law

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "Resent husband and his sibling over care of Mother in Law"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you and DH took this on by moving her to you.  There isn’t much you can expect from ILs esp when she is going to care in a few short weeks.

This is a really challenging time and right now your MIL needs your DH more than you do.  Time to step up and have his back so he isn’t feeling pressure from you.  Cover the kids and stuff.  It is only a few weeks.  Your kids will be fine.

It would be[b] enormously selfish[/b] to expect DH to do anything else but deal with his mom’s situation during this time.  Deep breath, you can do this.[/quote]

I'm going to stop you right there. OP, whenever you hear people throwing around the word "SELFISH" it's manipulation. It's used primarily with women, since we are still socialized to give until we do ourselves in. It is not selfish to be fed up. Unfortunately you cannor force the inlaws to help. You do have a right to be upset to come up with solutions. Maybe they inlaws are willing to throw money at this until she in a home? Hire help and then move her to memory care.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics