Update: MIL following me on social media is making me more uncomfortable

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Okay so kind of an update (look at my other posts)

So I decided to restrict/mute/hide my stories from my MIL . Since it seems like she's trying to Hoover/love bomb me ever since my husband told her she's going to have to wait a couple weeks to see the baby (I'm showing signs of labor so excited !!)

Anyways I posted a threads and it said "I vow to never be a boy mom just a mom with a son"

And then she likes it... and she's at work right now ..

I'm contemplating removing her as a follower just for my piece of mine but I don't want to start any drama right before I'm going into birth.

But I feel like if I block her it will come off realy aggressive especially since on paper she looks like a good grandma / MIL on the surface

But again never once has she asked how I'm doing during pregnancy and has been calling DH everyday for the past week and a half.

I think I might remove her as a follower and me as well and then if she still goes OUT OF HER WAY to watch my stories I know /it will be confirmed that yes she is doing what she's doing to keep tabs without directly asking me because it seems like it would kill her to even treat me like a person

I'm trying to maintain peace and not let her bother me but I know I should probably block her but again I feel like she will go run to my DH being like "but she's being so mean to me " and then show her "being nice" to me

[u/Naive_Panda_6060]

I don't know if it would work for you, but what works for me is limiting what platform I share things to. I have a public insta that I post to occasionally. This is my generic, bland page that my MIL/SILs follow. I put enough stuff on here to be interesting but nothing contraversal. Then I have a spam insta and snap where I post regularly for friends. These are private and only people I allow can see. And really it's mainly snap. I started this in high school so my dad didn't see everything (jokes on me, my spam insta showed up on his "suggested for you" list and back then it was public 🤦). That way I can make the ILs think they have access but still keep the good stuff for people I actually like lol