Mother-In-Law Stories February 10, 2002

February 10, 2002

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	Worst gift: I have so many horror stories about my in-laws that I don't even know where to start. One year before I was married, I developed papillary cancer of the thyroid and had to have an operation to remove my thyroid. I didn't receive a get well card or even a kind word from my husband's family. They knew what I was going through, and we had already been dating for over two years at this time. Since the thyroid regulates your metabolism, this caused me to gain weight. I went from a dress size six to a ten. I have a SIL who is very weight conscious and works out all the time (my husband tells me she was a heavy teenager). She makes snide comments about overweight people all the time. She also gets this from her mother, my MIL. This Xmas she gave me a size extra large, sleeveless, thin, see-through, knitted blouse made out of a net like material. I didn't know how to react, so I just said, "Thanks," and placed it back in the box without trying it on. I have gained weight, but I still fit a size medium or large. It was not necessary to purchase a size extra large. I know that it was her snide way of telling me to lose weight. I eat a balanced diet and run at least 2 miles, three times a week. My health is more important to me than my dress size, and I am not about to let her project her own insecurities unto me. Luckily, my husband was with me when I went to exchange it. He was able to hear the salesperson say, "I can't believe how ugly some of the things we carry are." P.S. The blouse only costs $9.99 and my SIL drives an expensive, imported car, and wears only designer clothes. Signed - Too Numb to Care RESPONSE: Too Numb to Care At any rate, anyone who acts like this to anyone suffering from a health related problem, or any weight problem at all, should be disdained. Every normal human being would be ashamed to be caught acting like that in the middle of the night, let alone in the presence of all the family at Xmas. Cheer up! Do not let boars give you pains.
	Worst gift: The worst present my MIL (should be "outlaw") gave me was a used t-shirt that she has worn many times. She has even worn it in front of me! Signed - Obedient DIL To A Domineering MIL
	Frequent Fry Her^TM. - The Fish 1 of 4 /Posted: 10-FEB-02 The Betrothal. MIL was VERY angry when she found out we'd be getting married. See, DH had been married before. And, in MIL's book, the ONLY a reason a husband and wife ever get divorced is when the man has an affair. Therefore, DH MUST have been screwing around on his first wife. Therefore, it is HER responsibility not to support him and offer him an ear during his time of crisis, but to harangue him and tell him what a horrible man he was for FORCING his wife to leave, and that he was a TERRIBLE father. I could go on, but you get the picture. So, DH asked me if I wanted to go with him when he goes over to tell MIL and FIL that we were getting married. Ummm, let's see - NO! You get to do that one all by yourself, buddy boy! So, DH, being the chicken he is, took the kids with him, presumably as a buffer. So, he went in and told mommy dearest. FIL was not home. And, you know what mommy said? In FRONT of her ONLY grandchildren, she FORBID DH to have any more children with me (yeah, and YOU get a say in that WHEN?) because, get this, "You don't love the ones you have." And, then DH had to explain away her words to his children the rest of the evening! What a b!tch!!!! It doesn't matter who she hurts, as long as she hurts her son. I'm not sure what I was more angry about - her presumption that she actually gets a say in MY procreative activities, or the fact that she just really confused the cr@p out of her grandkids. Signed - The Fish ( I want my own Frequent Fry Her^TM Page )
	Frequent Fry Her^TM. - The Fish 2 of 4 /Posted: 10-FEB-02 Here's the story of the first time I ever met my future MIL. I was still DH's girlfriend. We'd been dating for about 6-7 months at the time. I knew it was going to be kind of odd, because DH didn't talk to his mother very much. My oldest stepdaughter, then 11 or about to be 12, kept telling me that grandma doesn't like anybody. I remember the previous fall, that MIL and FIL had gone on vacation. I knew they had come back, and I was urging DH to call her to say, "hi". See, at this point I thought she was normal, and that everyone had a relationship with their mother the way I did (or had, before she died). DH got very angry with me, as I was urging him to call her, and said he did not want to talk to her unless he had to. Hmmm. Big red flag there. So, she came over (they, unfortunately, live only 5-10 minutes away) to bring DH and the kids their souvenirs from this trip (4 months later). So, she brought some stuff in the house, and DH and SS headed out to her car to get the rest. I was sitting on the stairs that led from our kitchen to the upstairs. My SD brought MIL into the kitchen and said, "Grandma, this is XXXXX." MIL didn't even GLANCE in my direction. She said, in that really irritating old-lady "my way or the highway" voice, "So is THAT the one that says your father cheats at backgammon?" Then she turned around and walked out of the kitchen!! SD was embarrassed, but not surprised. I was so embarrassed, that my butt stayed glued to the step I was sitting on until the b!tch left the house. See, the day before, we had been playing backgammon. DH vs. me and SS and SD. It was a funny kind of game. We were ALL cheating outrageously, and it was all in good fun. At some point I DID call DH a cheater, but it wasn't an angry kind of thing. It was just the way the game was going - we were all laughing about it. This was my first lesson in kids remembering and repeating EXACTLY what you don't want them to. And, MIL isn't the kind to understand that. Hindsight tells me that I probably should have called her on her behavior right away, but would a simple "Hi" have been too difficult? Apparently! Signed - MIL Isn't The Kind To Understand ( I want my own Frequent Fry Her^TM Page ) RESPONSE: MIL Isn't The Kind To Understand Your MIL sounds like a creep, like mine. I once made a joke about my DH, simply because he said it is impossible to embarrass him. It was a little personal, but everyone laughed, especially my DH. Now, years later, she keeps bringing this up, as if I were cutting him down (or sexually twisted). It was only a joke - geez lady!

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