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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it really bothers you that much, simply say, "Mary, the baby looks like me and my side of the family, too. I had a little something to do with it, after all!" In a lighthearted tone and with some humor.[/quote]

Don't say this.  You will look very childish.  You may not like her but, what harm is she doing?  It is just a way to bond with baby and make conversation.[/quote]

It isn't "childish" to gently make your feelings known. Not throwing a hissy fit and threatening to throw MIL out of the house would be childish. But letting on that this is a sensitive topic for you is not childish.[/quote]

I stand by my word.  How often does your see your mil?  Who really cares if she thinks if mil that ops baby looks like her family?    Its not like ops mil is  a stranger.  Mil is related to ops kid. Maybe that is the root of the problem
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have you actually had an experience similar to OP's or are you just taking out of your ass? MIL pouncing on everything as supposedly related to her robs you, the mother, of the pleasure of seeing yourself and your parents in your children. while it certainly does not make that experience impossible  it makes it more difficult by introducing additional uncertainty into what is a leaf reading process anyway. I can't take normal pleasure in knowing my kids look and behave like me because I have this annoying narcissist at the back of my brain screaming "this is just like! I was like this! Me me me"[/quote]

To be honest yes.  [b]The difference is it is just conversation and chat[/b]
My kids are a mixture of both sides.  You are pronably very simular to your mil which is why at the root it bothers you so much

After reading all your responses i feel sorry for your spouse.  Yikes!€/[/quote]

really? well, you sound kind of dumb. but that's just us, conversing here.[/quote]

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