Friday, August 12, 2011

Should I keep my daughter away from my in-laws?

I conceived my daughter out of wedlock and while I was pregnant my boyfriend's parents where barely involved in the pregnancy. We invited his mother to the ultrasounds and she always made up excuses so that she didn't have to come. When we had my baby shower my mother invited his mom to participate in putting the party together. She accepted but when my mother would try to call her she would either not return her calls or return them after I told my boyfriend that my mother was trying to contact her. We also invited the guys of my family and his father to show up after my party so that we could feed them for helping put together the event. His father refused to come saying that he was busy and we later found out that he thought it was more important to go hunting then participate in something for his granddaughter. I went into preterm labor with my daughter at 32 weeks and was placed on bed rest for the remainder of my pregnancy. Not once did they ever call, visit or check to see how things were going. On the other hand, my boyfriend's other family members would call me every week or make sure there was nothing I needed. Me and my boyfriend moved out before my baby was born and we invited them again to help us move in. Again they refused...his mother left town with a friend and went shopping and his father went hunting. My entire family helped with moving us in, paying for EVERYTHING that went into our apartment. Due to my boyfriend's financial problems we almost had to move back out because I was paying for everything and his parent's told him that they would not help. My parents and family yet again dished out money so that we could stay and raise our daughter together. Now that my daughter is born and they "fell in love" with her, they want her ALL the time. They wanted us to bring her up to them when we recently had this big snow storm and were mad that I haven't let her go over there in two months. They refuse to stop by and see her at the apartment and they only live 10 minutes away. They expect for us to drive her out and come see them no matter what the weather condition is. It has been as low as 8 degrees and they get mad because they feel like I should drag my baby out. I feel like since they can't help and they were not concerned about her until after she was born then why should they be apart of her life now. As mean as it sounds, I don't want them around her. They still won't lift a finger to help us with ANYTHING but yet they think that they are entitled to having her ALL the time. She recently told my boyfriend that she hopes he is more of a man than to let me tell him that they can't have the baby all the time. It is causing problems between me and my boyfriend because I see my family bending over backwards to help us and his parents won't even bring us a loaf of bread. I don't want to jeopardize his relationship with his parents but I have no respect for them. What do you think I should do?

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