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Mother-In-Law Stories
August 23, 2004
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Frequent
Fry Her TM
- sonotthedrama /Posted: 23-AUG-04
Ok, here are just some of the stupid things that
MIL has said this weekend! She has lost a lot of weight
lately - but she is all flabby now - certainly nothing like Daisy
Duke (she thinks that she looks like that actress) LOL.
She is so inconsistent that it's funny - one minute she thinks
she looks like Daisy Duke, the next minute she's sighing about
how she's going to pay for the plastic surgery that she needs
(she has about 5 lbs of loose skin that she wants removed).
She told me that they "closed down the bar" last night
which, since her BF is a co-owner, means that after hours they
just stay and drink until morning. She told me that while
the cleaning guy was cleaning up the bar, she helped him out,
and he was so happy for the help. So, she told me, "Yeah,
I don't clean at home, but I clean the bar." Well now,
isn't it nice that she has her own personal maid at home (me)
who does her dishes and laundry, and takes care of grandma (in
addition to watching after my own 3 children). And, yet,she's
comfortable enough with the situation that she can rub it in my
face. I truly don't know whether or not she thinks I'm an
idiot, and will forgive and forget, or whether she knows that
the instant I move out I'm cutting all ties with her. After
what she's done, she'll never see my kids again. She says
all the time how much she loves them. Actually, it's nauseating
- every time she leaves she asks them, "Do you still love
me? You love me, right? You still love me?" at
least 4 or 5 times, and she says that she will miss them so much
when we are gone. Yet, this week, she has seen them for
a total of 1 hour, and we live in her apartment!! So, she
can't care too much for them. Oh, and she tells me that
she loves her BF of one month so much that she doesn't even mind
that he's gross sometimes. How gross? Well, he went
to eat some take out food and he was going to use a fork from
the previous night's dinner that hadn't been washed yet.
He saw nothing wrong with using it unwashed. He invited
her over for tacos. For some reason he doesn't have a table,
so everything was spread out on his bed (for him, MIL, and his
son to eat - so it's not like this was a romantic dinner, LOL).
Since he wasn't sure which sauce she would like, he had 10 bottles
of salsa and hot sauce laid out (getting warm). LOL.
And she thought that it was just the cutest, most romantic thing
ever.
Signed - Just Can't
Understand MIL
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Please Seek Counseling
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Continue on Message
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My MIL has this thing
about bragging about how extraordinarily busy she is. I think that
she equates being busy with importance. She doesn't have a job,
nor does she have children or other family members to take care
of. Therefore, I'm fairly sure that she's a legend in her own mind
on this one, unless you count gardening and hosting one's bridge
club as a full time job. One day, I came home from work at midnight
while she was visiting. Over the course of the day, I had cleaned
the house, prepped my son for the school play and driven him to
school, finished an article, did a television interview, went to
a concert, and submitted a review less than an hour earlier (at
11:30 p.m). So, at the end of the day I came home and said, "Whew!
What a long day!" and listed all that I'd done. And she said,
"Ha! Every day is like that for me."
Signed - Dissed and Dismissed
Per
the poster's request, no responses collected.
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DH and I live with my
MIL. We now have an 8 month old DD. My MIL has taken
it upon herself, on many occasions, to comment to my family that
she has had to buy my DD clothes because nothing in the closet fits
her. At the time, she had just purchased 3 new outfits for
the baby. She has also started freaking out every time the
baby falls from the sitting position, or bumps her head on the coffee
table. DD does not cry when we are around, because she knows
that we will not fall for it (because she is not really hurt).
We comfort her and she is fine. MIL starts yelling profanities,
saying things like, "Why in the @&*# were you not watching
her??" Another time, just after baby had her 4 month
shots, baby was crying for a long time, and there was nothing that
DH nor I could do to comfort her. I decided to try to give
her a calming bath. I closed the door, and from the other
side MIL had the gall to ask me, "What are you doing to her???"
I responded, "Breaking her legs, what do you think?" and
she left the house. Thank the Gods that DH backs me up and
thinks that his mother is a crazy old coot, anyway.
Signed - Frustrated First
Time Mommy
RESPONSE: Frustrated First Time Mommy
Why weren't you watching her?
RESPONSE: Frustrated First Time Mommy
Move out! She won't see you as adults while you still live with
"mommy".
RESPONSE: Frustrated First Time Mommy
If you don't, MIL is going to call the authorities and tell them
that you're abusing the child.
RESPONSE: Frustrated First Time Mommy
Then move out! I wouldn't live with my MIL at all, even if it meant
being homeless and on the streets.
RESPONSE: Frustrated First Time Mommy
You need to move out. You're MIL may be crazy, but you're crazy
for living with her! There is NO house big enough for two queens.
RESPONSE: Frustrated First Time Mommy
That is sooo annoying. I remember when my MIL took my little boy
and said, "He won't go to sleep, rub his privates" WHAT!!??
Her thought was that it's a calming sensation, and would help him
go to sleep. I was like, that's a line I'm never crossing. I didn't
even answer her. But she does NOT participate in DS's bedtime.
(editor's note to responder - thank you for the information
- spelling correction made)
RESPONSE: Frustrated First Time Mommy
If you and DH are driven so crazy by her, why do you allow her to
come to your home? She needs to be corrected when she makes untrue
statements about your parenting (such as saying that nothing you
have for DD fits her, so she needs to buy her new clothes). She
sounds like a control freak, and I would have booted her permanently
long ago. Be careful, she sounds like one of those who will fight
you in court for GP's Rights.
RESPONSE: Frustrated First Time Mommy
Your story reminded me of my MIL's first - and last - baby-sitting
encounter with our niece. My SIL is a great mom, VERY protective
of DN, and she reluctantly caved to BIL's pressure and let MIL and
FIL baby-sit for a day. They sent supplies, and they had DN dressed
in a little outfit that SIL's mom had bought her that had a t-shirt
and pants with feet in them. SIL went to pick DN up, and MIL had
cut the feet off the baby's outfit! SIL asked why she did it, and
MIL flat-out lied and said, "You didn't pack any other clothes."
SIL said, "Yes, I did, did you even open the bag?" MIL
said, "She was trying to stretch her feet and the pants were
too short." SIL said, "Didn't you think to take them
off?" The only reason MIL cut them off was because she knew
that SIL's mom bought the outfit! She had asked, when they dropped
DN off, where the outfit came from. She tried to lie to us and
tell her side of the story, and said that SIL didn't pack any other
clothes, and I even asked the very same thing that SIL did, "Couldn't
you just take the pants off?" because the top was separate!
She is a real nut job!
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