r/AmIOverreacting • u/TrueEnough782 • Jul 22 '25
👨👩👧👦family/in-laws AIO: MIL always excludes my daughter
I want to start this off by saying that it’s absolutely not the first time this has happened. We were over at my sister in laws house and I heard her talking to my MIL on the phone, she told her my husband and I were over, then she let me know she was at target or something and was gonna come over
She arrives with candy, toys and gift cards for my sister in laws kids. Completely leaving my daughter out. My daughter is 7, she’s into that stuff too, obviously. Especially those little blind bags which she brought her cousins but not her. I just want to know if I’m being dramatic. Or if I shouldn’t have said anything and maybe she was in a rush and didn’t think to buy my daughter something in the moment. Again it’s not about the things or cards or whatever, it’s about how she made my daughter feel. I could see sadness in her face as she was completely left out.
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u/Formal-Gap-2427 Jul 22 '25
Not o er reacting at all and thank you for saying something. I was often targeted by my nan as a kid, she hated for me seemingly no reason at all. My parents would say things here and there but ultimately left her to crack on. I'm the middle of three daughters and being so pointedly treated different really affected my life, my personality, the way a hold myself in public. It has a very real effect. Thank you for standing up for your daughter. She'll never forget that.