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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neither your mother nor your MIL are servants.  They’re family.  Try looking at it that way.  [/quote]

Family who frequently stays overnight is just that--family. Family helps. If they wanted to be treated like guests, don't visit so damn much. [/quote]

Where does it say that the MIL wants to be treated like a guest? All I see is the OP complaining that MIL doesn't go far above and beyond like OP's own mom. And its not suprising that with such a codependent relationship, OP is going to prefer her own mom. Where is DH in all this? I'm guessing he's a classic Beta who is not allowed to have any opinions, down to the color of his shirt.[/quote]

Um, people who do nothing but hold the baby and criticize--at clearly stated in the original post--aren't helping, they're making extra work for the host: extra cleaning, extra food, extra emotional and mental energy of having to make small talk and fend off parenting critcisms from literally Armchair Grandma.[/quote]

Its not fair to compare MIL to OP's mom, who by all accounts is Dobby the house elf.[/quote]

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