Mother-in-law insists on organizing a baby shower for DIL on the non-negotiable condition that the guest list includes only her friends: ‘[She is] having us pay to feed these people’

When does a thoughtful baby shower offer turn into someone else's party on your dime?With time, I realized that some people are entitled by nature, and that somehow they always find a way to make every situation about themselves. If you're lucky enough, these people won't be in your life, but if you end up understanding that your mother-in-law is one of them, you should try to keep her as far as possible from you. There's always a reason to have a baby shower and to celebrate this big arrival, but there's no need to have one if the future mother is not into it. It's normal; not everyone wants to have one, and there's no big deal. When this wife told her mother-in-law this, the woman went crazy because she didn't understand her motives behind this call. That's why she suggested she could organize it for her, and the wife accepted, since it seemed like a kind offer.When time went by, and the celebration was about to happen, the guest list became an issue. When the soon-to-be parents read the names, they realized it only contained the woman's friends, and most of them weren't familiar to her son. At their baby shower, they'd have a bunch of strangers congratulating them on their baby…

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