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My husband, “Frank,” and I have been married a couple years, together for four. It’s a second marriage for each, with two teen kids each. One is off in college, so we have three now with us. After we got married, we didn’t immediately move in together as we were looking for a house, and often we had alternating custody schedules so we would go back and forth to each other’s homes. Sometimes we would have all the kids together, but not regularly. Then about six months later we found out that Frank’s company was transferring him back to his home country in Europe. So we postponed buying a home, but he…

FYI: The forums are currently down until further notice due to technical issues. My relationship with my husband is great except for when it comes to his mom. She has never liked me, which I’ve always just dealt with, but since I became pregnant, her behavior has become even worse. Her actions originally followed the typical MIL-from-hell activities — trash-talking me to others, passive-aggressive comments when I was around, and just seeming to try to undermine me at every turn. She would often try to align with my stepson against me, and she eventually blocked me on FB after I politely asked her to keep her political comments off my posts. In…