My mother-in-law admitted she doesn?t love all the grandkids in our blended family equally
Ah, family dinners. Such a lovely opportunity to get together and enjoy a meal, touching base with grandparents and uncles and aunts and cousins, shooting the shit and catching up on our lives. Good times. Until, that is, someone in the family says something that makes you do a double take.
?It?s just not the same,? Nana says. Those five words will be imprinted in my brain for eternity. The sentence hits me square in the gut. What fresh bullshit is this"
We?re sitting at dinner, talking about all of the amazing grandchildren she has… but. Yes, there?s a ?but.?
Rowan, my biological daughter, is with her father and her grandparents tonight. Nana?Boyfriend?s mother?and I are discussing my daughter?s father. I?m not sure how we got on the topic of my ex procreating. Is this something people typically talk about with their mother-in-law from their second marriage" But here we are, two voices among a table filled with Boyfriend?s blood relatives, Nana curious about my ex?s family planning, me wondering why she?s so interested. ?I don?t think Rowan?s dad will have more children,? Nana postulates. ?So Rowan will be his parents? only grandchild. Let her grandparents spoil her rotten!?
I stare blankly at her, not really sure where she is going with this. For whatever reason, I feel the strange need to defend the possibility of my ex growing his family.
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