Set boundaries about contact you’ll have with your in-laws – and don’t put your husband in the position of defending his family
I’m pregnant with my first child. My husband and I waited a long time to tell my in-laws because we knew all hell would break loose once they knew.
As soon as we told my mother-in-law, she screamed and started throwing herself around the room in dramatic fashion. It became all about her. My in-laws then spent all evening pushing me for information I wasn’t willing to give. It was so horrible – I burst into tears when I got home. We asked them not to get anything yet and my sister-in-law insisted she was going to immediately start buying lots of stuff for the baby.
