One step at a time.........

[brandnewday]

Lights,

Although I know you are correct I am not ready to make peace at this time with MIL.

I have absolutely no argument with anything you wrote to me.

I have to deal with one thing at a time and MIL is not on my list of things to do.

Although I might sound like a spoiled brat right now, I still feel as though nobody in the family acknowledges any of the pain I have been through, nor that of my children. Instead of being a support to me, they turned their backs on us and pretended like we didn't exist.

Nobody stepped in to see if things were OK, or asked if we needed help. Maybe this is why I refrain from asking for help nowadays. It is hard to believe that strangers are kinder to me then family.

I love my Husband (and I really should post a couple of the lovely emails I have received from him this past week), and I would never do anything to stop him from having a relationship with his Mother.

I vent here but not to him about my struggles with her. He too has mentioned some of the things she has done to me and feels she has issues.

I am hurt that after over 20 years of being her only DIL and being the Mother of her only Grandchildren, that she would turn her back on me.
Our relationship wasn't always this way.

I will get over this one day, I know it is wrong but give me just a little more time.