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FallingWaters Asked February 24, 2024

Would you move in with your parent if your spouse was forbidden?

Would you move into your elderly parent's house to take care of them if they absolutely forbid your innocent spouse from coming to the home? My mother despises my husband and won't have him on her property. He has done nothing wrong, but if I stayed up there to tend to her, I wouldn't even get to see him (except on the rare occasion I could leave her home to meet him somewhere). I really don't want her to have to go to a nursing home, but I don't want to live without my husband and never get to see him.

lealonnie1 Feb 24, 2024
If mother is as mean as a snake, she'll do just fine in Assisted Living or Skilled Nursing care. Everyone always seems to think, Oh No! Mother will fall apart w/o me taking care of her, which is silly. The human being is strong and designed to thrive, with or w/o loved ones coddling them! If your mother has the wherewithal to treat you so badly and to hate your husband with a passion, then both of you bring out the worst in her. The strangers in managed care are likely to be treated MUCH better by her because she has no axe to grind with them. And if not, who cares? It won't be YOU she's abusing.

She hasn't earned the right to abuse you just because she's 97! Get her placed and realize she's already lived a VERY long life. She can go on to live to over 100 in managed care and you can live in peace with DH as you should.
NeedHelpWithMom Feb 24, 2024
Or the people who say, “She is going to “will” herself to die because she isn’t in her own home! What a crock of sh*t! Oh, please! It was simply their time to check out of this world and die! Their number was up!
pamzimmrrt Feb 24, 2024
nope,, just Nope. She needs you more than you need her, and you need your husband, so its a non starter for me.

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sp196902 Feb 24, 2024
Send mom to a nursing home.

Fawnby Feb 24, 2024
That’s a sure fire method to put an end to your marriage.
Don’t do it! I can’t imagine any husband putting up with it.

Mom goes to a place where they can care for her according to her health issues. No brainer.

NeedHelpWithMom Feb 24, 2024
No, I would NEVER move into my mother’s home if she despised my husband and wouldn’t allow him on her property!

Nor would I ever allow my mother to move into my home if she despised my husband!

My mother is deceased. I did care for her. She loved my husband and respected him.

Parents don’t have the right to interfere with our marriages. You are in control of your own marriage.

If you don’t want to see your mom in a nursing home, you will have to look at other options for her. She can hire a private caregiver or hire a caregiver from an agency.

If she can’t afford to pay for others to care for her, her only alternative is to apply for Medicaid and enter a nursing home. Or if she owns a home, perhaps she can sell it to pay for an assisted living facility.

You already know the answer to your question. You said that you would not want to live without your husband.

I think you are asking for validation for your feelings on this matter.

Well, I am confirming how you feel. You should never sacrifice being with your husband for your mom.

Your feelings are correct. Her feelings are wrong. Follow your heart and stay with your husband.

You haven’t told us about your mom’s health. Can you share with us what she needs help with? How old is she?

You sound like a daughter who cares deeply for her mom. I understand this but you have a right to set boundaries. Just because you love someone, it doesn’t mean that they are allowed to use you as their doormat.

Respect is earned. If she doesn’t love you enough to respect your husband, then she doesn’t deserve your support.

Wishing you all the best.
FallingWaters Feb 24, 2024
Thank you, NeedHelpwithMom.
She is 97 years old. That's the main reason for my concern - I don't know how someone of that age will be able to acclimate to a completely new environment.
She has always had excellent health although she is growing quite feeble and frail. She uses a walker and has fallen a few times. There's absolutely no reason for her disdain and nastiness towards my husband. You are right, I'm not going to stay with her under these conditions.
Beatty Feb 24, 2024
Are you asking if someone would basically make their life partner their Mother instead of their Husband?

Geaton777 Feb 24, 2024
The fact that you even have to ask others about whether this arrangement should ever happen is worrisome.

Do not move in with your parents and do not EVER let them move in with you. Your spouse comes first over your parents, all the time no matter what circumstances your parents are in.

Do not ever pay for their care. Do not manage their care unless they make you DPoA. They can pay to have aids come into their home if they don't want to go into a facility. Should they ever go into one, do not pay for any of it.

I understand your hesitancy about placing a parent in a facility, but in my own experience many of them are quite nice and the residents get all their needs addressed, even socially. There may come a day when you are overwhelmed by the care of 2 very needy elders, so before you judge facilities, please visit some gooe ones.

I wouldn't blame your husband if he doesn't lift a finger to help. He doesn't have to. Don't assume him into caregiving your parents -- it would be immoral and unethical to do so.

Anxietynacy Feb 25, 2024
I've been doing a lot of deep thinking since I've been reading post.
I've decided this
I come first
Husband comes second
And mom comes 3rd
From now on
waytomisery Feb 25, 2024
If you have children Mom comes 4th .
BarbBrooklyn Feb 24, 2024
Why on earth would you even consider doing that?
FallingWaters Feb 24, 2024
Because of her age (97).
funkygrandma59 Feb 24, 2024
After the hell that your mom has put you and your husband through, you still have to ask the question if you should move into her house without your husband???

Just because your evil mom is 97, is no reason to move in with her and take more of her abuse, and leave your poor husband behind.
Your husband/marriage, children, and grandchildren come WAY before your mom, so get your head on straight and tell your mom that she's on her own and can either hire 24/7 in home help(with her own money and NOT yours)or she can find the nursing facility she'd like to live out her days in.
There are NO other logical or sane choices here, and I hope and pray that you realize that, before you do irreversible damage to your marriage.
funkygrandma59 Feb 25, 2024
I see AC removed 2 important sentences again from my response thus the space between my first sentence and the rest of my post.
All I had said was "I mean WT(and I'll let you fill in the last letter)??? And what is wrong with you??? Both of which I personally see nothing wrong with, as sometimes the OP needs a reality check.
I guess we'll see if AC removes my reply as well.
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