When you allow others into your home, you expect a certain level of privacy - even if they are family. That's why one woman was left displeased when her mother-in-law thought it was appropriate to "lie on [her] bed" when she wasn't there and kept going in her room despite being asked not to intrude.
Understandably this behaviour caused the woman to feel like a "teenager" having to ask her husband's mum to get out of her space.
The distraught mum said that her mother-in-law had "p****d her off" so much when she was behaving bizarrely while her son was napping and that her husband had even had to ask her to leave after the unusual incident - but the older woman didn't think she'd done anything wrong.
She took to Mumsnet to write: "I'm on maternity leave and once a week mother-in-law comes over to watch my son for a few hours.
"I sleep in a bed beside my son's cot in the nursery and my husband sleeps in the master.
"Because my bedroom is also technically 'the nursery' my mother-in-law feels she can go into it as she pleases.
"Her argument is she needs to be able to put my son down for his naps, but the time she regularly comes doesn't overlap with his nap times, I always put him down before and after her visits.
"She may need to go in there occasionally to get a muslin etc but I feel she needs to be more respectful and only go in when necessary.
"My husband has had to explicitly tell her not to lie in my bed. She's constantly taking things out of the nursery and scattering them around the house."
And there was one specific incident that acted as the catalyst for her to post online about her mother-in-law.
She continued: "But the other day she really p****d me off. My son was still napping when she came - I was alone in the kitchen and saw him cry on the baby cam, I walked into the nursery to find her half on the bed with her face up to him.
"I thought she was in the living room! He did his scared 'wtf' cry and I said annoyed 'oh...hello..?!' and my husband, also annoyed, asked her to leave (he works from home).
"She said 'he was already awake' but that's not the point! I feel like a teenager shouting at my mum (in-law) 'get out of my room!!' Am I being unreasonable?"
People defended the new mum in the comments, calling the mother-in-law's behaviour 'all kinds of odd.'
One person wrote: "This is all kinds of odd. I simply wouldn’t leave her alone in the house to do this sort of nonsense she clearly needs supervising!"
Another suggested: "She probably sees it as a bed for whoever is in the nursery at the time rather than your shared bedroom?"
Someone else said she ought to be grateful her mother-in-law was helping out, commenting: "It's not your bedroom it's the baby's room that you sleep in. If you're not happy with the free childcare she's providing, then look elsewhere."
"In what way is she not 'respectful'?", a mum fumed. "She is doing you a massive favour - I should stop griping if I were you."
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