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Mother-In-Law Mall
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Mother-In-Law Stories
August 3, 2004
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I haven't added to this in a while,
not for lack of stories, mind you, but just for lack of time.
But, after my past encounter with my monster-in-law, I just felt
the need. Honestly, I believe that the woman is certifiably
insane at this point. In my frying her, I have mentioned
how she is a huge self-praiser. I'm not kidding when I say
that the woman can't go 5 minutes without telling someone that
"everybody loves me," "I'm so respected,"
and, "this one or that one couldn't live without me."
My favorite is, "That charity would crumble without me."
Yes, this is a well established, worldwide charity that I'm convinced
she only does work for so that she can walk around saying that
it would fall to pieces without her. How rude to make a
good thing something so tarnished by greed for attention.
The world would fall apart, we'd all burst into flames, and the
universe would explode if she wasn't here. At an evening
out with them for FIL's birthday, my MIL began a 40 minute lecture
to me at the table about why I haven't changed my name.
Now as background, I am not very fond of my DH's last name.
It rhymes with a curse word, and I am fond of mine, which I have
been known by my whole life. Second, when I hear Mrs. X,
it makes my skin crawl, because that is her name, and I can't
possibly associate myself with her. It's also a different
day and age where a lot of women aren't changing their names.
Anyhow, at a nice restaurant in the city with FIL, DH, MIL, SIL
and me, MIL began taking her shots on me. She said that
what I'm doing is atrocious. When she married, she "embraced
the X name", and she "entered into a dysfunctional family,
and turned the X name into something that is not only respected
across the USA, but all over the world." I AM NOT EXAGGERATING
that last line, I thought I was talking to the Queen of England.
She kept reprimanding me over her DH's confused statement of,
"My family wasn't dysfunctional. My parents we're great."
I just kept patiently defending my stand that a lot of women don't
change their names anymore. It's a different era where a
lot of women have careers before they marry, blah, blah, blah.
My DH was chiming in that he agrees with me, and it doesn't bother
him a bit, so that's all that matters, blah, blah, blah.
She continued her mindless ranting over us to keep trying to make
me feel like an @ss. Unfortunately, they drove, so I was
SOL and not able to leave and go home. I had to sit through
it, imagining taking the loaf of bread from off the table and
stuffing it down her fat trap till she wouldn't be able to speak
anymore. There is so much more than this that happened that
night. I'll have to write another page. But, my DH
finally, after 6 years together, was just as pissed as I was when
we got home. He spoke the next day of wanting her out of
our lives if she continues her cr@p, and he couldn't take this
much longer blah, blah. It was so refreshing to hear, because
he always believed everything that I told him about her, and stood
behind me, but he was weak about it. He would give me that,
"What she said/did was wrong, BUT she has low self-esteem,"
or, "She doesn't think before she acts. She probably
didn't mean it." I would always respond, "NO EXCUSE"!
You use those excuses for a child, not a fifty-six year old woman.
She should know better than to speak to people like that.
Mind you, the above story was just the tip of the iceberg.
She also damned my ability to be a good mother, gave a lecture
about me letting DH watch an R rated movie, and so on. And,
after my past encounter, I am at my wits end!!!
Signed - Not Sure How
Much Longer I Can Take It!
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Please Seek Counseling
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Continue on Message
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My ex-MIL was a control
freak hillbilly. SHE went to a certain church, and anyone who went
to a different church was going straight to HECK. Both of my ex's
brothers' wives gave up their own religions to keep peace with her,
but I absolutely refused. When she changed her Christmas Eve celebration
to Christmas Day (announcing the change at NOON on Christmas Eve!!!)
because she found out that my family celebrated on Christmas Day,
and this would make everything smooth sailing for us to have Christmas
with both families (can't have that!). I calmly said, "Well,
then we'll drop your gifts off on Christmas Eve and wish you a nice
holiday. Maybe next year we'll be able to see you for the holiday."
She changed it back 5 minutes later. When I had my son christened,
it was considered by her to be a "weird" thing to do,
and she actually told me that the fact that our Methodist minister
had worn robes in church convinced her that I was just a Catholic
in disguise (she didn't like Catholics). She yelled at me because
I held my son too much when he was a baby and was too close to him,
"You're spoiling that baby!" I would just smile and say,
"No, he's spoiling ME." It turned out that he was my
only one ever, and I cherish every memory of holding that baby!
She would invite her son for Sunday dinner, and tell him not to
tell me. He'd sneak out of the house before I got up on Sundays
to go to church with mommy, and he'd come back and have "mommy's"
fried chicken (of course, I blame him equally). I made an applesauce
cake from scratch to bring to her Thanksgiving dinner when she told
me that she had pies all taken care of, and I needn't bother to
bring anything (I was simply not brought up to come to dinner empty
handed), but she didn't serve it. Her "pies" were the
frozen kind from the supermarket, and she hid my cake in the pantry
closet. All three of us put upon DILs ate the homemade spice cake
while we did up her dishes after dinner. Nothing I did was suitable,
and I bent over backwards. Then, her precious son left me. She
and her self-appointed minister second husband called me up and
told me that *I* would go to HECK for being divorced, but that he
wouldn't because he had been "saved", plus he was raised
in the "right church". Three months later, he married
the 15 year old biker chick whom he'd left me for, and HER second
husband performed the ceremony! My ex and I were both 23 at the
time. This chick he married wore no underwear, and flashed the
family, cussed like a sailor, refused to go to ANY church, told
my FMIL that she didn't believe in God, and drank beer in front
of her. Believe it or not, they're still together after 20+ years,
and my ex-MIL told me at my son's graduation from high school (first
time I'd seen her in 16 years) that she missed me, and wished she'd
known when she was well off. What goes around comes around, if
you wait long enough!
Signed - Happy Ex-Wife
Per
the poster's request, no responses collected.
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Frequent
Fry Her TM.
- desperately seeking sanity, 4 of 4 needed
/Posted:3-AUG-04
MIL told DH to have a DNA test on our son. He was too shocked
to respond. When I called her on it, her first response was,
"I don't know where you get these things from."
A favorite phrase of hers is, "It's all in your mind."
My response was to look at DH and say, "Where do you think?"
He's not supposed to tell me anything that she says to him!
Her reply to that was, "Well, GS doesn't look anything like
the others (meaning his sister and 2 cousins)." He looks
a LOT like his sister, who also doesn't look like her 2 cousins
on DH's side, but they are both the image of their 5 cousins on
my side. The big difference is that he has brown eyes, like
me, and all the other children on both sides have blue eyes!
DH and I have never cheated on each other in 16 years!
Signed - Desperately
Seeking Sanity
RESPONSE: Desperately Seeking Sanity
And what did your DH say to his mother when she called you (effectively)
a wh*re? Because that is precisely what impugning the baby's parentage
is doing.
RESPONSE: Desperately Seeking Sanity
Remind your MIL that the most suspicious people are those who've
been cheaters themselves. Then, demand a DNA test for your DH so
that you can find out who HIS real father was.
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