Mother-in-law calls 31-year-old daughter-in-law childish for not forcing her 9-year-old stepdaughter to call her mom, DIL doubles down on upholding stepdaughter’s boundaries

Salutations, internet creatures. There's nothing like childhood. You're young, you're carefree, you have no responsibilities and you don't know the horrors of adulthood yet, usually. Unfortunately, not everyone is afforded a traumaless childhood. Some children grow up in dysfunctional homes, divorced parents, mean older siblings, or being mistreated at school. When you think about it, being a kid is much harder than being an adult in a way. You're so overwhelmed with emotions, and everything is so new. You don't even have coping mechanisms or a developed frontal lobe to be able to discern how to approach situations, deal with them, self-soothe, or even communicate properly.

In the story below, the protagonist is a woman whose stepdaughter has some childhood traumas. The protagonist is extremely understanding of this, and wants to do whatever she can to uphold her stepdaughter's requests and boundaries. That is until her MIL gets between her stepdaughter and her. Her MIL wants her to force her stepdaughter to call her mom. Read the full story below for all the juicy details.

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AITA for ignoring my MIL when she brings up my stepdaughter as my husband suggested?

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It sounds like the protagonist is really sensitive and empathetic to her stepdaughter's situation, and the MIL should respect that. There's no point forcing a 9-year-old into something, it won't go anywhere. Forcing will only make them resent and fight back more, doing unreputable damage.
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