Hello, I no longer know who to turn to and I will tell my story here. I am married with 2 children. My husband and I are firmly connected and live in harmony as much as possible nowadays. The problems come from something else - the names of the children. My first child is a girl and we named it after my mother-in-law at the insistence of my husband. My mother, who is a very powerful woman, had objections, but everything passed with time. Things got complicated when I got pregnant with my son. I have no contact with my father, he has not wanted such with me since I was a child and I grew up only with my mother. For this reason, my husband expressed a desire to name our second child after his parents, who have always loved me very much, especially his father. I discussed the issue with my mother, whose name is in no way a masculine variant, and she said there was no problem for her. It never mattered to me either. And so my son was born, I named him after my husband at his father's request. The moment I told my mother, it was a big nightmare. She hung up the phone, came to the maternity ward the next day, just looked at the baby in disgust, and left. He did not come to the discharge. I was a traitor to her, long battles began to fix our recovery.
She stopped coming to our country, did not call the child by name for at least a year, stopped coming to the holidays for both children. She told me many times that she was sorry that she had given birth to me, that it was better for her to commit suicide than to look at me as a child, etc. I am ungrateful and a traitor to her, I did not love her. I had to name my child after no one, not my father-in-law. Because it turned out that I only love them. He denied me, he doesn't want to see me. She only calls me when she needs something done. I want to note that even before I married my husband, I was always nothing to her, other people always had children, only hers were useless. They ruined my graduation ball, she didn't want to come to my wedding because the flowers for the decoration weren't what she wanted, she kicked me out of the house because she didn't want the dog, etc. It's not easy, but I've always been silent. I am very sad that we are in such a relationship now. I was so wrong with these names. Should I have complied with my husband. I don't know ... It's been a long time, sorry. It's not easy, but I've always been silent. I am very sad that we are in such a relationship now. I was so wrong with these names. Should I have complied with my husband. I don't know ... It's been a long time, sorry. It's not easy, but I've always been silent. I am very sad that we are in such a relationship now. I was so wrong with these names. Should I have complied with my husband. I don't know ... It's been a long time, sorry.
1 iflycaribbean answered
Hey, calm down! You didn't do anything wrong or blame yourself! Your mother is just a narrow-minded person and petty when she reacts and acts so rudely. The only leading thing in human relationships should be love, everything else is details that have almost no meaning. I know you are suffering now, but you have to accept that your mother is not one of the most loving and is also a terrible egoist. Do not put a burden on your heart by experiencing its negative attitude every day, just let it pass through you without holding it in you and thinking about it. The most important thing is that your family is united and that you are all alive and well. And she can't live as she wants, so you can't, and you shouldn't try to change her. She needs to learn the lessons of life on her own, because she has obviously missed many of them! Smile, you have the greatest wealth. I am speaking on behalf of a woman whose child is named after her mother-in-law!