Gabriel Mizrahi

While he goes through this journey, I'm limiting my discussions about his parents with his family and working on finding spaces to share my struggles with people who will understand.

That's thoughtful.

It's been hard to realize that my husband is not my ally or advocate when it comes to his parents.

He also has work to do to unlearn the behaviors he learned from them at a young age.

I know it's not intentional, but he doesn't see how their actions and behaviors impact me and him, and it's incredibly hurtful.

Even though I've worked out my feelings about my husband's parents, I still have anxiety about all of this.

I do believe I have more power over the situation than I did a year ago.

I've stood up to my in-laws on multiple occasions and...

know how to hold my own with them.

I also take comfort in the fact that they might be making digs at me or picking on me because they're not getting their way and have turned to lashing out to retake control in the only way they know how.

How could I continue setting healthy boundaries with my in-laws?

What kind of relationship and contact should we have with them?

How do I keep taking care of myself and maintain my sanity?

And most importantly, how do I keep protecting my son?

Signed, Wanting Your Two Cents on how to stand up to these rents in the unfortunate event that they put a dent in my greatest present.

I mean, that's weird as hell.

And just realizing that that might have been the sister-in-law who was defending them.

Not reassuring, Marsha, but thank you for the confidence.

And when you couple that with their general oversteppiness, I don't know, man, if I were in your shoes, I don't think I could leave my child alone with them.

No.