“Trapped Under the Chopper: 40 Adults Reveal the Dark Truths of Growing Up with Helicopter Parents”
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#25
Not me but my wife.
My MIL is a huge helicopter parent. She calls my wife several times a day about the most minor things. It’s my wife’s fault for picking up but she has been conditioned by years of guilting.
It sucks, has impacted our marriage, caused a number of arguments, and has caused me to have a serious dislike of my mother in law.
Edit: and we have a kid now so things are much worse than there were before. She’s now a helicopter grandparent that acts like she is entitled to see my child. She throws little pity party tantrums if she goes more than a few days without seeing my daughter. She tries to tell us how to do absolutely everything and always has some 2¢ to throw into our choices. I’m a stay at home dad and my wife is a teacher so we don’t need her help or advice. One nice nugget of advice was that we didn’t need to tell my daughter she was black (I’m black, my wife is white).
My only sanity saver was that she lived 30-40 minutes away (she just moved closer) and that we got into a huge fight where I and my mother told her what we thought of her. There was a lot of yelling and crying that night. I stopped making any kind of effort to have a nice relationship with her and she is uncomfortable being around my mother.
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#26
2/3 including myself are NC and that only because 1 is still underage. I went at 23 after years of my mom hitting me and screaming at me when I visited, my younger sister left with a police escort at 19 due to the abuse.
