‘My daughter is not a burden’: New mom bites back at entitled MIL when she suggests being a grandma is better than being a mother on social media

Navigating new motherhood is like diving headfirst into an unknown pool whose depth you don't know. You can watch as many parenting videos, read as many tutorials, and speak to veteran mothers about parenting, yet you'll still be in for a surprise when you bring your prized tiny tot home to start the rest of their life. It's times like these that you should feel grateful for the support systems in your life who have your back when things start to overwhelm you. However, for every great person, you have another emotionally incompetent person just waiting to drag you down. New motherhood shouldn't be like this, but sometimes, it's unavoidable.

The new mother in this story is fed up with her mother-in-law after she denounces motherhood and claims grandmotherhood is the better option. This is a common saying, but the woman explains she knows her MIL wrote this online for people to see and to influence folks to make negative assumptions about the woman's status as a mother. Scroll down to read the entire story.

The woman describes her relationship with her mother-in-law as “tumultuous," which is already an interesting start to the story. You might think MILs are constantly given a bad reputation for no reason, but the proof is in the posting. Though it isn't fair to vilify one kind of in-law, it's important to analyze the potential reasons why MILs make life difficult for their child's spouse, namely on purpose. In this woman's story, her MIL likely does so because she wants to make herself feel more important.
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"MIL thinks being grandma is more important than being my daughter’s mom."

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