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Mother-In-Law Mall
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Mother-In-Law Stories
June 20, 2004
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My MIL makes sly, nasty comments
that go undetected by my spouse. Once, at a summer BBQ, she was
encouraging guests to get into her hot tub. I hadn't brought
a bathing suit, and she offered to lend me one. I declined, and
in front of everyone she said, "Why not? No one here cares
how you look in a bathing suit." She invites us over for
dinner as a ploy to get my DH to fix her computer, and she hands
me dirty laundry to take to the dry cleaners, since the cleaner
is closer to my house than hers, and I "only work 3 days
a week". The sad thing is that this is typical of the women
in DH's family (his sister and aunts are the same). They constantly
run me down. The men in his family are all super quiet and just
take it! I have a million stories of awful comments and horrible
behavior - temper tantrums, nasty phone calls, comments about
my appearance, etc. I am questioning my marriage at this point.
I want to move away from his family, but my DH does not. HELP.
Signed - Quiet Female Surrounded By Vipers
( here is my story )
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My ILs have done some
nasty, insensitive things over the years, but they aren't as bad
as some of the things that I've read here. With the help of two
SILs (one of them is their daughter), I try to laugh about it.
For example, at family get-togethers they like to bring strangers
up to me and introduce one of my kids, whom I'm holding, and completely
ignore me. I eventually extend my hand and say, "Hi, I'm also
a DNA donor." This usually gets a laugh and lets the ILs know
that they were being rude.
Signed - Trying To Keep
My Sense of Humor
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Frequent
Fry Her TM
- sonotthedrama, 3 of 4 needed
/Posted: 20-JUN-04
On Mother's Day, I had purchased a few items for
MIL from my kids. She had not bothered coming home on Friday night,
and had stopped by briefly on Saturday for a change of clothes.
She told us that she wasn't sure what she was doing on Mother's
Day, but she said that we should call her, and maybe she could go
to lunch with us. Well, we called her, but she couldn't even be
bothered with lunch. She wasn't going to come home until very late
that night, or maybe even the next day. So, DH went out with his
friends, and I didn't bother to wrap her presents, etc. She eventually
came home at 11:30 that night, and saw one of her presents (a fish
in a vase with pretty rocks and live plants), but I didn't bother
with getting out the other ones. Tonight, a week after Mother's
Day, she had the nerve to complain that I haven't given her a picture
of my baby that we'd had done. That was to be one of her presents,
I told her, but since she hadn't bothered coming home, I hadn't
bothered to give it to her. So, she said, "I'm only the grandma,"
like its her RIGHT to have a picture that I paid for And, to top
it all off, I found out that she spent Mother's Day in the pool
at her BF's apartment, swimming and playing with some of the kids
who lived there! She couldn't be bothered to come home to see her
own grandkids, but she could swim with other kids - and I should
GIVE HER A PICTURE?! She's getting a wallet size, and that's it!!
Signed - So Tired of
Her Ignoring the Kids
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