The wedding went fairly well, there were no incidences of real note, although I was a little puzzled as to why the bride and groom flew their 2 border collies down for the wedding, when they weren't even part of the procession, and the bitch is 4 weeks off due for her litter!
Since the other half's 2 sisters and mother are heading back to Perth tomorrow, he wanted to spend some time with his sisters, so then I had to drive to the other side of Coldstream (close to 2 hour drive each way) yesterday so that the other half could see his younger sisters, but yesterday was absolutely god awful.
Other half asked the sister in law about foetal habits, given that I'm getting kicked for hours on end, and she confirmed what I already knew, it's pretty normal. But then the mother in law butted in, and said it was absolute bullshit, and I should barely be able to feel it, and anything I should feel, would only be flutters! Then tried to say that the baby is only about 5-6 inches long (erm.....I'm half way through my 6th month!
Other half was somewhat irritated/amused/aghast, because he's seen my stomach move at least an inch upwards during some kicks, and can feel it when the baby is pressing on me, and dragging a limb up or down!
On the drive home, the other half started talking about how he'd done some digging about how the mother in law supposedly hated me, and why, when I heard some of the things said, it wasn't a surprise, but then the caliber of things said got worse.
Just prior to the wedding, the brother in law had told us that the mother in law hated me, but when the other half confronted his mother and put the screw on his sisters. .....turns out the opinions of me had ALL COME FROM THE BROTHER IN LAW.
He (bro in law) also decided to take a dig at me for looking into homeopathy for the baby and myself, but as the other half stated, I looked into the research, found that claims that replacements for vaccines is complete and utter bullshit, and decided against it.
Then he had another go about how he was concerned that we were on a single income (he couldn't give a shit), but as I pointed out to my H, so is the bro in law's family!
The final straw for me was when my partner's cheating, lying, plotting drunkard whore of an mother in law pulled my brother in law over and asked if he was SURE the baby was my partners.
For the first time in a long time, I could actually see myself REALLY hurting someone, and I had difficulty trying to express just how I felt, at first a wave of hurt went through me, and then pure, unadulterated rage. Some really horrible things were said and done, to the point where I literally had an eye twitch for the hr n a half drive back home.
After a few minutes silence, the other half said that he wants to move down to Tasmania as soon as possible, he's so over the bullshit his family and mine keep dishing out, and perhaps it's time to move and start a new life and a new family elsewhere.
Thank God the other half has taken carers leave for me from tomorrow, because I'm on the verge of shut down from stress and rage.