Grrrrrrrr

T,
And you think that probably my parents are not the best parents in the world? My? We always visit them with a pleasure, love spending time with them etc... But we do not like (and actually mostly my husband) spend time with my parent-in-law... They are very nice but somehow toxic...
Yesterday my Dad had a stroke, just left the intensive care unit, on Monday he'll have the surgery, immediately we've bought plane tickets and have just landed in our homeland... In meantime my husband let his mum know what happened (our parents are very good friends) and what was her (my mother's-in-law) reaction? "Oh, sorry to hear, but you go to visit your parents-in-law and not us? you visit us only when you really have to, while you now are going to spend your holidays with your parents-in-law, you like them more than us..." etc. etc... How someone can say something like that to her own son?!
I start getting what people mean by emotional abuse, my parents-in-law know exactly how to make my husband feeling guilty (sorry I'm too egoistic - I don't feel guilty, I just feel mad...)