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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m not sure why this situation existed, since I’m not sure why you would take a 5-month old who just had a medical emergency anywhere but home.  But I also understand why you are upset.  We were still during the early phase of vaccines, during COVID strains more dangerous than Omicron, and most importantly, your 5-month old could easily have caught COVID and therefore been at huge risk due to being medically fragile.  That trumps any political views on masking.  And your family was so hell-bent on making political points that they disregarded your fragile baby’s safety.  That would be hard for me to let go too, especially when they had agreed to help out with masks and then refused when you got there, knowing your baby had just been in the hospital less than 24 hours ago.

[b]If it were me, I would accept that they put political views as priority over your baby’s safety [/b]and accept they are out of your life for now.  Spend more time with DH’s family.  Hopefully eventually your family and you will come together again.  But with the understanding that you now know how they will treat boundaries and safety and as PPs said above, act accordingly.  Assume they won’t and if/when you get together with them again, put systems in place where you can leave if they don’t respect safety requests with other issues as well (stay in hotel, start with only couple hours planned visits, make excuse and leave at first sign of safety disrespect).

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But this is also what OP did.  OP was extremely into covid precautions if she had friends/family wear a mask AND was truly concerned about her 5 month old catching covid.  It seems like OP and the relatives are on different sides of the COVID spectrum.  It’s likely hard for OP to understand the relatives aren’t concerned about covid and vice versa.  [/quote]

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