Timeline for Girlfriend's nosy mother keeps expressing that she'll show up unannounced
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| Jul 14, 2018 at 5:10 | comment | added | Andy | @baldPrussian even if the GF resolves this on her own, the mother could still misinterpret it as the BF manipulating her into doing it, unfortunately. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 7:56 | comment | added | SQB | Do not use key safes, as they're generally easily opened. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 7:51 | comment | added | Mawg | You have lived there for a few years now, so ought to know the neighbours. Whether you do, or whether you want to lie to to your potential mother in law, you can always say, quite correctly, that an emergency key is best left with a neighbour, for immediate access. If you are locked out, you don't want to wait for mum in law to drive over. If you are on holiday, a neighbour can handle plant & pet sitting, and, indeed, you can always claim that this has already been the case for several years and you do not want to offend the neighbour by replacing them with the dragon in law. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 3:31 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | The main emergency is when you lock yourselves out, it can be useful to have someone else with a key (but there are other solutions, too). Others can be things like a leak or something detected while you're away on holidays, but again.... It's very unlikely you need someone to have a key, and to use that key without talking to you beforehand. | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 17:04 | comment | added | baldPrussian | As I think on this, I ask myself: what need would someone have to get into your place? Unless you have pets, I haven't seen in 30 years of living on my own that anyone has needed to get into my place. I'm kind of the opinion that an emergency requiring a key to your place barely exists. | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 1:39 | comment | added | MaxW | The person who needs to resolve this is your girlfriend. ABSOLUTELY!! | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 22:08 | comment | added | Cork | I've had the conversation with GF, she's fully aware of her mothers' behaviour. In fact, she forewarned me before I met her mom that this has been an issue previously. I really like the idea of 'we have to go, thanks for stopping by!' option. Will definitely use in practice. | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 21:55 | history | answered | baldPrussian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |