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Name: Tony S

Dear friends,
Pl. help me solve this. My MIL always tries to come in betn me and my 2 kids. She always tries to tell them that dadi (grandmother) is the best. She plays with them so much, makes nice goodies for them so that they keep saying dadi dadi all the time. It is becoming too much. Even though we stay in separate cities and if there is a function like my kid's b'day or a baby shower(which we do during Sankranti) she wants to be the main person around. She tries her best to sideline me so that my kids give me just a little importance and tries to create an impression that she is the most important person in their lives. My kids naturally are attached to me and their father more (obviously) no matter how much she tries. She gets very very very very very jealous if my kids keep saying mamma and they come to me most of the time and miss me when I am not there. But ironically she wants her kids esp. her son to keep saying mamma all his life. Overall she is quite an affectionate lady but can be v. dominating and double-tongued and manipulative if she wants to. She basically hates me getting attention from anyone whether it is my husband or my FIL or even my kids. It sometimes gets too much and I just get so angry and want to tell my kids how manipulative and partial she is (She prefers her daughter's kids to her son's). But they r too young to understand that (they are 4 and 2 yrs resp.) SHe wants to be given too much importance unnecessarily. Tell me friends do u also face similar problems. How do u solve it ? Thanx.

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