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Ugh. Sorry you're dealing with that.
I have a MIL who harps on and on about a different subject, and what has really worked for us is that dh and I chose a couple of "soundbite length" phrases that we BOTH use in response to her. We don't explain, we don't argue, we don't even really engage. We use the broken-record technique and just say our little prepared phrases.
If she really wanted to know more, she'd ask. If she actually cared, she'd listen. But it's really about her getting her way in our family's life, and guess what? She had her turn to use her parenting choices. We have considered what she has to say. We just disagree, and now we don't need to hear it anymore.
This has really made it alot easier to give her a cheery response, and she's nagged alot less as it's sunk in that we're not taking the bait.
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~~~Kim~~~
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