{"id":36920,"date":"2024-12-09T08:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T08:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=36920"},"modified":"2025-02-24T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:50:12","slug":"am-i-wrong-for-kicking-my-mil-out-of-my-home-after-she-came-over-to-do-me-a-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=36920","title":{"rendered":"Am I Wrong for Kicking My MIL Out >>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-424.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-424.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-424-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When my mother-in-law, Melissa, came over to help with my colicky baby while my husband was away, I thought I\u2019d finally get a much-needed break. But what happened during those few hours left me questioning her intentions, my instincts as a mother, and even my marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sank into the couch while Emily\u2019s faint cries echoed from the nursery. I didn\u2019t even have the energy to respond right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three months in, and I still wasn\u2019t sure how people did this. How did they care for a colicky baby, sleep two hours at a time, and still look like they had it all together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hair hadn\u2019t seen a brush in two days, and my shirt was a patchwork of spit-up stains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter had called earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow are my girls?\u201d He\u2019d asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re surviving,\u201d I said with a weak laugh, bouncing Emily on my shoulder. \u201cYou\u2019re lucky you\u2019re on the road and not stuck here with this little tyrant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=36917\" title=\"\">ALSO READ&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my mother-in-law, Melissa, came over to help with my colicky baby while my husband was away, I thought I\u2019d finally get a much-needed break. But what&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49392,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36920\/revisions\/49392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}