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Quit with the "She's supposed to be a Christian" stuff. This isn't about her religion. There's hypocritical Christians everywhere. Welcome to the real world. Her words would still hurt even if she was atheist. This isn't the time to point out how much of a hypocrite she is. Doing so is deflecting from the real issue.
You can't change who she is, how she feels about you or what she thinks. But you can change how you react to it. You can control whether or not you feed into it and give her the reaction she secretly hopes you have (so she can have yet another reason to criticize you). You can control whether or not you take her words personal.
This mainly falls on your husband. That's HIS mother, not yours. So it's his responsibility to check her, put her in her place, keep her out of your marriage & demand that she respect you as his wife. If he's being passive about this, walks on eggshells around his mother or refuses to put his foot down when she disrespects you, then he is also a part of the problem b/c that my dear, is called enabling a b*****tch to continue being a b******tch.
Don't say anything to her. She won't listen. She won't hear you out. Let him do the talking b/c 1. That's his mom & 2. It's his job as a man to keep the family unit together by way of checking any disrespectful impostors at the door. And yes, 'impostors' may even include family members
It's not his fault when someone else doesn't like you, but it's partly his fault if others that don't like you disrespect you (and therefore him) simply b/c he didn't put his foot down when others disrespected you.
No, he can't control his mother. But he can control whether or not he tells you the disrespectful things his mother says about you. He can control whether or not his mother has the access to disrespect you personally to your face. He can control whether or not his mother (or anyone) gets to step foot in his house. Scenarios like this can easily get out of control when the husband or wife doesn't utilize the few things they actually can control.
How is he reacting to all of this? How is he handling it?
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I'm the one who has to fall in love with them, love them, lay with them at night, F them, go on dates with them, live with them, support them, raise children with them, etc. So yes, who I fall in love with, who I commit to is my business, and my decision.
Of course their opinions are valuable to me, but not so much that their wants & needs for me trump my own. They're not so valuable to me that they're given control of my life.
I don't make lovelife decisions from someone else's heart or mind. I make them from my own. And although I can't control that others are racist, that doesn't mean that I have to entertain it or bow down to them just b/c they technically birthed me.
Parents raise their children to be independent well-to-do thinkers, so that's exactly what you oughta turn out to be...an independent thinker. Not a "I can only have my own mind some of the time" thinker.
Hating someone b/c of their skin color is not a logical, rational or fair enough reason for me to consider leaving (or never getting with) someone I'm into. If they had real concerns (like the way he treats me, for example), then perhaps I would hear them out, BUT the final say-so would still be mine.
I wouldn't get advice from someone bitter b/c I'd 'consider the source.' The same goes for racists folks. Simply being a parent doesn't mean that how you think, act or judge is correct, rational or fair. So yes, even with my parents, I 'consider the source'
Parents raise their children to be adults who can make rational decisions for themselves based on what's best for themselves. Don't raise children to be that way if you can't handle it when they in fact, turn out to be independent "Live my life for me and my own happiness" thinkers like you taught them to be for the 1st 21 years of their life lol
Thankfully, I've never had that problem with my parents. They meant it when they said they wanted me to live my life for me, according to what made ME happy.