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We received an email from a listener that has a tough decision to make. She doesn’t want her son to call her mother-in-law “Mimi.” Should she address it or not?
Here’s her email:
I don’t want to come on the radio but have a situation and I’m not sure how to handle.
My husband and I have a 1 year old baby. (His birthday party is this weekend). Our son is the first grandchild on my side of the family but there are already 5 grandchildren on my husband’s side of the family. All of the other 5 grand children call my mother-in-law “Mimi”. The oldest is 10…so for 10 years she has been called “Mimi”. We don’t see them that often but they will be coming to town for his party this weekend and I need to tell her that I don’t want my son calling her Mimi. I’d like a different name for her. I know she is going to be furious and make the weekend hell because of it.
My mother-in-law has been so nasty and condescending to me from the moment I met her. She doesn’t deserve to be called Mimi and I can’t associate that name with this woman. “Mimi” was what I called my grandmother. She was everything my mother-in-law is not. She was kind, caring, and selfless to everyone she met. She was the most important person in my world until she died. My husband’s mother is NOT a “Mimi” and I can not stand to hear her or anyone else call her Mimi. I certainly do not want my son to call her by that name. I’ve tried to tell my husband that the name is too special to me without telling him that I can’t stand his mother. He doesn’t understand. If I’m going to put my foot down and insist our son call her something else, it needs to be done now before my son starts talking and knowing her by name.
Do I have the conversation with her or do I just ignore the fact that she is known as “Mimi” and just start referring to her as “Grandma G”
