Am I Wrong ??

My Mother In Law calls my son her little boy, like she will text me saying “how is my little boy” Am I wrong for feeling annoyed at this ??
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Yes, lol. My mum calls my little boy her little boy sometimes as well. It is just a term of endearment ☺️

Nothing to be offended by. She loves your child and sees her as her own

She doesn’t mean factually lots of people say that xxx

At first I found it a little annoying when my mother-in-law called our girl "my little girl" but then my hormones calmed down and I love the fact that she sees our little girl as her little girl and her family, I feel its the greatest compliment that she has accepted me by feeling that my little girl is hers too. Give it time, and I'm sure you'll realise that it's actually lovely that she feels so comfortable calling your boy "her little boy" x

My mum does it, it doesn’t bother me at all. Find it kinda cute.

I think it’s sweet, my mum and sister do this with my children and I love that they love my babies as much as I do. I also imagine I would feel the same towards my grandkids if my son or daughter decide to have babies in the future and I would hate for their partners to feel weird about it

My mom and my best friend does it. Doesn’t make my baby theirs My baby is still my baby regardless of what they call her It doesn’t bother me a bit

Yes it really annoys me. Even when talking to him she says stuff like your my baby, even caught her once calling herself mummy to him!

It’s sweet, she loves him

my partner and I don’t have any family other than his cousin and sister - the cousin constantly does this and says my son is hers and although I know it’s just a term of endearment it annoys me too. They’ve seen him probably 4/5 times in the 3 years he’s been alive and never check up on him etc so it annoys me more because they never help out or bother with him. If my partners mum was still here I wouldn’t be annoyed because I know she’d be helping me most days - so I guess it depends on context. It’s ok to feel annoyed by it, just maybe try to remember they are probably coming from a good place xx

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