My In-laws are worse than your In-laws!

I don't see any reason to insult only children. The mean, selfish people I know all have siblings.

I apologize - I wasn't trying to insult all only children but there is a theory that some only children are raised that the world revolves around them and that's what I was referencing...again, not all only chidlren are raised that way. And yes, I know lots of people with siblings that are mean and selfish as well. Sorry if I offended :confused3
 
Argh my long post was deleted by the mods, I called MIL a slang that they thought I used to try and get around the filter. Oops! I'd like to call her a whole lot of other things too, but surely I'd get points!

I dreamed about her last night, how ironic. I dreamed she kept pulling up in a car trying to take my kids. That's not even all that far fetched - she adopted SIL's daughter - BUT SIL gave up her daughter for adoption - at age 9. THEN got pregnant again 3 months later - and kept that baby. Yeah way to mess with a kid's head - my mom didn't want me & gave me up for adoption after 9 years, but then had another kid & kept it....but really the 9-yr old thought MIL WAS her mom, she was raised to believe that. I always said it was weird that my neice called her grandmother "mom" - because she knew she had a mom (my SIL).

I let the cat out of the bag though - at neice's 7th b-day party the clown was asking for neice's mom. "Is neice's mom here, where's neice's mom?" SIL wasn't there, she was out partying with flavor of the week, so I said "Her mom isn't here today." EVERYONE there that wasn't family went "what? her mom is right there" - and pointed to MIL. I piped up "That's not her mom, that's her grandma" and boy you should have seen everyone's faces -and the scowl on MIL's! Here she had been lying to everyone all along telling people at school she was her MOM not her GRANDMA! (this was before she adopted her). Whack-a-doodle I tell ya!
 
Is it wrong that I want the raccoon to be wearing blue eyeshadow? If it is, I don't want to be right. Also, there's a chance I want to be that raccoon for Halloween.

Blue eye shadow. Check.
Red hair. Check.
Crazy @$$ gleam in my eye. Check.
Yup. Got it dooooooooooown pat. Okay hunny, let me show you how the raccoon is done.

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My ML bears a striking resemblance to Judi Dench. Same dour look on her face and all.

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AFter reading 5 pages of this thread I have no doubt why there are lonely people in nursing homes.

My inlaws were not perfect but not nearly this bad. The very first time I met FIL after we had been married 8 years his first comments to me were to tell me a filthy joke. Way to make a good impression.

MIL was the most self centered and selfish person I have ever known. Every conversation had to be turned around to her. She had to be the center of attention. But maybe she was worse than some of these others. DH and I strongly suspect she had Munchaussen Syndrome by Proxy. If you don't knwo what that is it is parents who intentionally make their kids sick to get attention. When he was about 4 or 5 he got really sick with vomitting. That was the only symptom. Just throwing up. I told him kids don't die from throwing up. Not in modern times. But the doctor said they would try one more thing and if it didn't work he would die. Well he got better. She was always hauling him and his sister to the doctor for the least little thing. I think he maybe got sick but got better. She gave him something to make him vomit (epecac?) and it almost went to far. DH was talking to her on the phone once a couple of years ago and he said she almost confessed. She is now gone so we will never know.
 
Let me start with the fact that my mil and I get along great now. Dh and I have been married 20 years. In the beginning though there were a few red flags, glad they didn't scare me away but I think this one is kind of funny.

After I had met dh's mom for the first time she invited us over again. She was a seamstress by trade. Well when I arrive she hands me a present. It was a BRA that she had made! All stitched up by her.

I couldn't get out of my head that she had been staring at my ****s that first time trying to figure out my size. Scary thing is that she got it right too!

Her only other oddity is that when she doesn't want to do something it's always " because her husband is dying" he's been dying for the past 25 years.
 
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Update -

Spent the day with the in-laws yesterday and it actually went well. MIL didn't make any nasty comments and was fairly decent with dd. The only "funny" thing was that we found out they arrived a day earlier than they told us they were coming.

They are staying for two weeks and actually asked when we can get together. It doesn't sound like they have a ton of plans with friends. I am shocked, but we'll see how things go.
 
I adore my MIL.



Now, my ex-MIL. Such a treat and treasure she is :rolleyes1

She still to this day swears that DS18 does not belong to her son, because I got pregnant before we were married and I was framing her perfect angel of a son who would NEVER have sex before marriage. He was a good Christian boy and I was obviously a *****, which she made sure to tell everyone. She thinks he belongs to her son's best friend because DS has blue eyes like the best friend and her son has brown. Never mind my eyes, my parents' eyes and my brother's eyes are all blue. Her son was smart and motivated and was going places and I was capitalizing on that because son's best friend was a party boy and I knew he couldn't "keep" me in money like her son could. Blech. There was never any money. Still isn't. :) She caused nothing but trouble for the 6 miserable years we were married.

And she still causes problems. She made a bunch of snide comments at DS's graduation party, after she blatantly ignored me and my entire family for the first 2 hours of the party.

Her biggest issue was that DS had ripped jeans on in his senior picture that she got. I emailed her to let HER pick the one SHE wanted, and I paid for it. She picked the ONLY shot out of FIFTY you can see the ripped jeans in, and she decided to complain about it at his party, in front of everyone.
 
When I read all these posts this is the song playing in my head...

:rolleyes1Insane in the membrane, insane in the brain!...and now it's stuck in there.
 
She still to this day swears that DS18 does not belong to her son, because I got pregnant before we were married and I was framing her perfect angel of a son who would NEVER have sex before marriage. He was a good Christian boy and I was obviously a *****, which she made sure to tell everyone. She thinks he belongs to her son's best friend because DS has blue eyes like the best friend and her son has brown. Never mind my eyes, my parents' eyes and my brother's eyes are all blue. Her son was smart and motivated and was going places and I was capitalizing on that because son's best friend was a party boy and I knew he couldn't "keep" me in money like her son could. Blech. There was never any money. Still isn't. :) She caused nothing but trouble for the 6 miserable years we were married.

And she still causes problems. She made a bunch of snide comments at DS's graduation party, after she blatantly ignored me and my entire family for the first 2 hours of the party.

Her biggest issue was that DS had ripped jeans on in his senior picture that she got. I emailed her to let HER pick the one SHE wanted, and I paid for it. She picked the ONLY shot out of FIFTY you can see the ripped jeans in, and she decided to complain about it at his party, in front of everyone.

Well, if her son isn't his father, then she's not his grandmother, so she shouldn't get pictures of him anyway, let alone be invited to his graduation party... :rolleyes1
 
Crap on toast! She strikes again! (the MIL, not you :) )

She can't take a hint, can she?!
This is to all you who hate your MIL's. Give those ladies a break! You all sound like DIL's from hell. I'm not a MIL
but God help me if I ever have some of you as DIL's. I will be pleasant and trust my childrens judgement! If they love them then I will too!
 
This is to all you who hate your MIL's. Give those ladies a break! You all sound like DIL's from hell. I'm not a MIL
but God help me if I ever have some of you as DIL's. I will be pleasant and trust my childrens judgement! If they love them then I will too!

And WHY should we give them a break? When they say and do terrible, mean things? Personally we did give MIL a break...from us. Sometimes everybody needs that.
 
Let me preface this by saying for the most part I do get along with my IL's and they've done some very generous things for us over the years. However, they have some boundary issues and FIL is a just a doozy of a personality. My all-time favorite was when our neighbor was giving away this killer wooden playset to us for FREE if we disassembled it and hauled it off his property. We already had a smaller playset at our house but decided to set this awesome one up at the farm so our kids could have something to play on while at the farm. All the other grandkids would have had access to this amazing playset at the farm as well, so we felt it would be better used there than at our house. So, DH spent an entire day of his own time taking it apart and hauling it away. Before he even got a chance to set it up again FIL saw it, called up my SIL and took it upon himself to give it to HER kids. Why he thought he one -had a right to give away something that belonged to US and two- thought it was a good idea to take something away from one set of grandkids only to give it to another I'll never understand. In the end it caused a huge rift between my SIL and I and to this day I won't go to her house because I don't want to look at that ****** playset.
 
This is to all you who hate your MIL's. Give those ladies a break! You all sound like DIL's from hell. I'm not a MIL
but God help me if I ever have some of you as DIL's. I will be pleasant and trust my childrens judgement! If they love them then I will too!

Wow! I think that's a big assumption that you are making that everyone on here is wrong and being judgmental about their MIL's...maybe that's it? Maybe we are all misunderstanding our MIL's and we're all the crazy ones :confused:
 
This is to all you who hate your MIL's. Give those ladies a break! You all sound like DIL's from hell. I'm not a MIL
but God help me if I ever have some of you as DIL's. I will be pleasant and trust my childrens judgement! If they love them then I will too!

You already sound very judgemental so I really doubt it........ :lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:
 
This is to all you who hate your MIL's. Give those ladies a break! You all sound like DIL's from hell. I'm not a MIL
but God help me if I ever have some of you as DIL's. I will be pleasant and trust my childrens judgement! If they love them then I will too!

"If you don't have anything hateful to say, then don't say anything at all." A direct quote from Bambi by Thumper's twin, Mad-eye.
 
Let me preface this by saying for the most part I do get along with my IL's and they've done some very generous things for us over the years. However, they have some boundary issues and FIL is a just a doozy of a personality. My all-time favorite was when our neighbor was giving away this killer wooden playset to us for FREE if we disassembled it and hauled it off his property. We already had a smaller playset at our house but decided to set this awesome one up at the farm so our kids could have something to play on while at the farm. All the other grandkids would have had access to this amazing playset at the farm as well, so we felt it would be better used there than at our house. So, DH spent an entire day of his own time taking it apart and hauling it away. Before he even got a chance to set it up again FIL saw it, called up my SIL and took it upon himself to give it to HER kids. Why he thought he one -had a right to give away something that belonged to US and two- thought it was a good idea to take something away from one set of grandkids only to give it to another I'll never understand. In the end it caused a huge rift between my SIL and I and to this day I won't go to her house because I don't want to look at that ****** playset.

My mom pulls that crap all the time. I hate it.
 

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