She mentioned in her post that it all started when her MIL volunteered to look after the grandkids. The third set of hands was required because when the couple went out to run errands so, their 9-months-old and 7-year-old weren’t alone.

Her MIL said that she didn’t understand the point of them being always together. Her son told that they liked going to the store together and she had to understand or else she refused to run the errands alone. This wasn’t the first time that her MIL made a weird comment about how much the two of them liked being together.

One time her husband needed to take a small drive for smog check and wanted to wait for her to come back home from work. Her MIL tried to convince him to go without his wife. She even started teasing him by saying that it isn’t that he’ll forget to drive if she’s not right there. She got more upset with him just because he wanted to wait for her to take a drive with him.

MIL is upset that my husband and I like spending time together. from JUSTNOMIL

OP recalled that when she used to live with them, MIL used to get upset at DH if he rather had dinner an hour late so that OP wouldn’t have dinner alone after work. She acted jealous as her son enjoying his wife’s company and doing tasks together bothered her. But she mentioned that her MIL and FIL had a great relationship so it was not like she was jealous of them as a couple.

Once the thing posted online on Reddit, people agreed in the comments about her MIL being weird. She seemed jealous and very possessive and also wanted his attention all to her herself. She couldn’t accept that she wasn’t the most important person in his life and someone else agreed to this.

Someone also commented that, even if she had got her husband, she was always going to see her son as just someone who belonged to her. It’s that they need to create more distance between her and they need to accept that she’s not going to change. Somebody advised them that he would’ve stopped asking her to babysit and that one of them could go out and grab everything they needed. She also mentioned that they haven’t been to stores together since the lockdown started.

It seemed very sweet that OP’s husband liked to spend time with her so she should pay her MIL no mind about her snarky comments and could take comfort in the fact that she probably had a very solid marriage.

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