If you're being mistreated by someone, you have no obligation to help them.

Maybe she should start giving her MIL some unwanted names, too.

When the in-laws misbehave, then treat yourself to a wedding that does NOT include them!

"Let’s learn to put aside our entitlement."

This friend denied claims that she was pregnant. Now, she's using it as an excuse to get out of the girls' trip expense-free.

"I’m tired of it. I feel like I’m enabling him to live irresponsibly, and it's starting to feel more like I'm being taken advantage of than helping family."

"She starts going off about how perfect it would be to have a ‘big moment’ where everyone finds out the gender during my reception, and how I should ‘totally do a balloon release or confetti pop for her.’"

1 point for DIL, 0 for MIL.

"And maybe, just maybe that Disney villain caricature of a woman will think twice before doing the same to another parent."

"I guess I could’ve pulled up an article but both of my parents are VERY dismissive…"

“I've never been allowed to sit on my porch with just my husband. I can’t talk to him for more than 15 seconds before she runs over with her dog.”

“I realized I was only being her friend the last few years to keep the peace between our two families. However, I was not at peace. I decided after talking with my aunt that I would be civil with this childhood friend, but that’s all she will ever be now. A childhood friend I once knew.”

Should texting manners really be that important in the relationship?

The moment just before a baby is born is incredibly exciting. You envision, strategize, and plan everything you want to do with your unborn child. But what would you do if your parents tried to force you to give the child a specific name by means of threats and coercion? For the sake of your child, would you cave into all of their demands, or would you stand your ground? The story that follows is an account of a frustrated soon-to-be mother. The original poster (OP) is expecting a child with he…