The Blackmail Game

What to do when your mother-in-law starts the blackmail game?

Really exasperating when my mother-in-law pulls the blackmail card, I remember her calling my husband with the constant nagging about me keeping her grandchildren away. At first it would be ridiculous and you even laugh it off. But wait a minute this angle always find its root with every call and citing of unconnected examples like how you came and took them away after they spent only 30mins or how you would not allow them sleep over. All unrelated but told manipulatively interconnected.

Do we join into this game of manipulation and blackmail? So tiring and draining. Much worse when there is  proximity to promote forced relationship.