My Mother-In-Law definitely has her fair share of issues, but we all do, so my husband and I tried to be understanding and compassionate for her, for a long, long time. My husband and his Mom weee always really close since he is the youngest of his two brothers. I lived with them for awhile before we got our own place, and his parents were going to move to Tennessee. I was also going through a lot of stuff with my family, so it was a very strange time, but it was never unbearable being around my husbands family on a daily basis. When his parents officially left the state, that is when things just started going downhill. Since my husband was the baby of the family, that’s how he was kind of always treated. When we announced our pregnancy and marriage, his parents were really happy, but it was very short lived by his mother. We invited her and his oldest brother to the ceremony at the courthouse, along with my family. She made the entire dinner afterwards about her, my new husband and I did not get one word in at the dinner, and we looked like two little kids sitting at the dinner table. It was not an enjoyable time that’s for sure. Shortly after this, was Thanksgiving, we decided to split up the holidays since my husband’s mom had moved back to NC because she was going through the waves and motions of getting a divorce around the time we announced our wedding. At Thanksgiving, I was around 23 weeks pregnant, and I was feeling it! I made a ton of food to bring, and we had to drive 40 minutes out to see my BIL and MIL. They were mad that we were about 25 minutes late to dinner, and also come to find out, if I didn’t bring any sides, we would have only had turkey on Thanksgiving. His brother is vegan, so he bought all of his own food, and we couldn’t eat any of it. Now keep in mind food gets cold when you have to drive so far away, his Mom actually said the food would have been better if it wasn’t cold! After this, my husband and I felt completely disrespected as the new married couple who have a baby on the way, so we distance ourselves completely. His Mom stopped calling, stopped asking me how I was, just stopped caring in general. When she does reach out, it is all about her, and she intentionally tries to get me to talk negatively about my husbands father, and I am not going to spread the negative energy back, because he has done nothing to us. Narcissistic people will try so hard to make everything about them, if you talk about yourself, they always relate your situation to something that happened to them, and try to make their situation worse or better than yours. I am now almost 34 weeks pregnant, and she texts us on occasion, but nothing more than that. My husbands entire family except for his grandmother and father, have completely alienated themselves from us, even though we try to reach out all of the time. It’s a very sad situation, but there is nothing more we can do to correct it. My husband and I have come to terms with the fact that we are going to have our child in 6 weeks, and the people that were there for us, will know how much we have appreciated their support over the past few months. The ones that were not there, and were simply a ghost in our world, will not all of a sudden be getting any special favors or will be the first ones to see our child. Overall I am proud of my husband and I for stepping up, and growing up for our child.