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Mother-in-laws don’t just observe; they supervise. There’s no aspect of parenting too small for their scrutiny or too personal for their commentary. Whether it’s the baby’s sleeping habits, feeding schedule, or sock selection, they’re there, ready to weigh in with all the authority of someone whose “expertise” expired a generation ago.
This is exactly what one exhausted mother faced when her mother-in-law turned parenting into a spectator sport, complete with endless tests, contradictory feedback, and passive-aggressive critiques.
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"AITAH for shutting down my MIL after she kept “testing” me as a mother?"
The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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Sorry kid, grandma's a bit crazy
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'No matter what I do, she finds a way to make it wrong like she’s waiting for me to fail': First-time mom snaps at mother-in-law after endless “tests” and passive-aggressive remarks about her parenting push her to the brink
Humans have this remarkable gift for inserting themselves into situations that don't concern them. For reasons no one can quite explain, the sight of another person quietly existing—parenting, eating lunch, drinking water—triggers an overwhelming need to pipe up with advice that was never requested. Somewhere along the evolutionary timeline, the survival instinct to share useful skills like fire-building got twisted into a compulsion to micromanage everyone from across the room. And while advice could, in theory, be helpful, the kind most people insist on sharing is less about helping and more about a thinly disguised power trip.
Nothing brings out this deeply ingrained instinct quite like new parents. There's just something about a baby that makes the world treat you like a walking suggestion box. Everyone from your neighbor to the random person in line at the grocery store suddenly has feedback on your every move—feedback that's usually condescending, contradictory, and just annoying enough to make you question all your life choices up to this point.
And then there are mother-in-laws.
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