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Your OG OK Storytime podcast host. And we got some great stories coming up. Before that, we have a quick two-minute break from the sponsors that keep the show a lot. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. My mother-in-law keeps overstepping my parenting. I finally stood my ground. Girl, why don't you take three steps back real quick? Three steps back. And then what? That's it?

Just three steps back real quick? Three steps back? And then what? That's it? Just three steps back? She's overstepping. This weekend, we, the husband, daughter, four years old, and son, 11 months, are going camping. Yay! We're meaning mother-in-law and father-in-law out there, followed by sister-in-law and her fiancé, possibly some friends as well, but probably not overnight. So mainly, I'll be stuck with the in-laws all weekend. Yay. By the way, this comes from fickle lion art, and if you want to submit your own stories, go to our slash okay storytime subred it. So the camping spot is literally in the middle of nowhere.

You drive through a very tiny, thin path that fits one vehicle at a time very slowly for

about an hour and a half to two hours.

Then you suddenly come to a huge opening with a gorgeous beach and a lake.

It's our favorite spot and we go every year except last year because I was super pregnant with our second baby, which is part of my issue.

What?

You keep getting pregnant?

I consider myself to have a fairly shiny spine now, getting shinier with every interaction with mother-in-law.

However, I never used to have one.

In fact, for the entire time my daughter has been growing up until this year,

I add what I referred to as a limp noodle spine when it came to mother-in-law. She has an obnoxiously

ginormous and loud presence slash personality and is the main character in every room she steps in.

Because of this, when my daughter was growing up, my mother-in-law boundaries stomped constantly

and basically took over as if she were the mom.

I honestly feel like she likes to play mommy with my kids.

It's gross and weird.

She's always posing with them for photos as if she's the mom saying things like,

oh, don't worry, Grammy just has to walk away for a second.

But I'll be back.

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