Mother-in-Law Offers to Pay for Grandchild's Nursery, but Mom-to-Be Shuts Her Down

Mar. 15, 2025

Young couple in their nursery in stock photo.Photo:Kondoros Eva Katalin/Getty

Kondoros Eva Katalin/Getty

A 29-year-old woman expecting her first child said she has turned down her mother-in-law’s offer to pay for a new nursery — because the mother-in-law wants to decorate it herself.

In a post shared toReddit, the woman writes that she and her husband are “proud” of the work they recently completed on their home nursery.

“It’s simple but feels perfect for us,” she writes. “We went with soft colors, some handmade decorations, and furniture we either thrifted or built ourselves to save money.”

But when the woman’s mother-in-law came over to see it, she had questions.

Eventually, the woman says her husband came around, calling his mom to explain “that we’re happy with the nursery the way it is, we worked hard on it, and that it wasn’t fair of her to keep pushing us to change it.”

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His mother did not take it well.

“MIL completely blew up at him, saying I was ‘controlling’ and ‘turning him against her,’ and then she texted me directly to say she’s cutting contact until I ‘stop being so selfish and ungrateful,’ " she writes.

source: people.com