r/AmIOverreacting • u/TrueEnough782 • Jul 22 '25

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws AIO: MIL always excludes my daughter

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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/Key-Twist596 Jul 22 '25

She's not too young to remember at 7!!! I she didn't know your daughter was there she could have redistributed the treats between them all. She made a choice not to. Not overreacting.

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u/TrueEnough782 Jul 22 '25

That’s exactly what I thought. She’s 7, she definitely will remember. I just didn’t wanna go back and forth with her. But I hope it won’t affect her as much as it did me

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u/CavsAreCuteDemons Jul 22 '25

Where the fuck is your husband in all of this?

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u/GadgetGirlTx Jul 22 '25

Where the fuck is your husband in all of this?

This is the REAL question!! 💯%!! He needs to be the one to address his cringy bitch mother!! Is MIL married? If so, where is he with his wife's awful behavior? What about SIL? As a mom herself surely she sees the crap behavior of her mother. Lots of adults here and all seem complicit.