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How are you handling unsolicited, pushy advice from Fmil??

Jessica, on August 5, 2019 at 4:23 PM Posted in Planning 0 6

Help! My FMIL is incredibly kind and loving, and super involved. She is also suppperrr pushy with opinions, asks extremely detailed questions about the wedding, wants to talk about it all the time (so I can't just not bring up the wedding or keep changing the subject - she's relentless). The problem is that, she'll ask what we are doing for xyz, I'll tell her, or tell her we haven't decided, and then she'll poo poo and criticize EVERY decision we've made (she seems to think her son hasn't been involved with every decision - he has been for 98% of decisions). Anyway, she has NO sense of boundaries (she calls our reception venue, the hotel we booked blocks at, our pastor, on and on and on). I've tried hard to establish them - for example, she asked for who I'm working with to establish the hotel block and i said "Oh I have to contact them today anyway, what should I ask them" and when she pushed I said "the manager is difficult to get a hold of and things will go smoother if it's just FH and I contacting him". So it's not for lack of trying.


WHAT do I DO while keeping the peace??? Please help.


ETA: She's not contributing financially to the wedding.

6 Comments

Latest activity by Cher Horowitz, on August 5, 2019 at 5:54 PM
  • Gen
    Champion June 2019
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    From now on I would just tell her "we're still deciding" if she asks a question. I'd also contact your vendors and nicely explain the situation lol, and tell them to please not give her information if she asks, and to disregard anything she asks them to do...

    Also I'd be asking your FH to have a conversation about this with her. It's really up to him to tell her to back off. It's his mother, this shouldn't be something YOU are dealing with.

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  • LB
    Champion November 2016
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    We told our vendors that they only had permission to talk to me, my H, and my parents (they contributed) about details of our wedding. FILs gf caused a scene at our venue once due to this and got put on the security list for the wedding Smiley laugh

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  • MrsD
    Legend July 2019
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    Your fiance needs to handle this, not you. She is his mother. He should privately talk to her in person or on the phone and explain it hurts HIM when she criticizing everything because HE has been involved in all the decisions. It shouldn't be blamed on you, he should be the one dealing with this. I'd tell all your vendors to only deal with you, and explain if your FMIL calls to not take any direction from her or anyone else besides you and your fiance.

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  • Kelly
    Champion October 2018
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    We had to set a boundary with parents that we would only be discussing or answering questions about the wedding on Saturdays from 10am-noon. Any other time we would not be available to talk about the wedding. Because it got to be too much for us.
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  • Meghan
    Devoted April 2020
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    My fmil is pushy as well, but has never tried to contact any of our vendors. I would say talk to your FH and see what he says. I had to eventually tell fmil that if she needs to know anything regarding the wedding or has suggestions, she needs to go through FH. He has filtered most of it and doesn't even tell me her opinions most of the time.

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  • Cher Horowitz
    Master December 2019
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    It seems like you've already tried your best to set boundaries with FMIL. At this point, I would let FH have a serious discussion with his mother

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