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Mother-In-Law Mall
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Mother-In-Law Stories
March 12, 2006
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FEBRUARY
2006
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Before DH and I got married
my MIL called up my relatives and asked them to talk to me about
getting genetic testing done. She wanted to make sure that I wasn't
a "carrier" of anything before passing it on to "her"
future grandchildren. I have never forgiven her for making those
calls. Several people told me, before I got married, to watch out
for her, and they were right. The woman is manipulative and an
emotional blackmailer.
Signed - Frustrated up
North
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My BIL has been unemployed
for a year and a half. He took a credit card out in our business
name and the dummy had the bill sent to our address! We canceled
the card, got extra protection on all of our other accounts, and
signed up for credit report monitoring. Then we confronted him
on it and did everything short of turning him in for fraud. It's
OUR business name he was using!!! This was a serious offense.
He went running to MIL and told her that we owed him an apology
for treating him so rudely. The man is being sued by various companies
in small claims court whom he owes money to, had his land phone
and cell phone shut off, and he has no job. What did MIL (aka Hagatha)
do? She paid BIL's bills and then called DH and told him to apologize
to poor BIL. Thank goodness DH told her where to stick it!
Signed - Frustrated Farmgirl
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I have 2 sets of ILs,
as my DH's parents got divorced and then each remarried. All 4
are awful, and have made our lives a living he!!. If you are having
problems with a future IL before you marry or during the first few
years of marriage, run as fast and as far away as you can. Limit
visits, or move to another state. When you do visit, stay in a
motel. Do not let them manipulate you. When I just could not take
any more abuse from my FIL, I divorced him. Yes, divorce is possible.
I do not invite him to our home anymore, and I do not go to visit
him when my DH and/or sons go. I am nice, but I do not chit chat
on the phone. I simply do not answer (we have caller ID), or I
hand the phone over to DH. I am just always too busy to visit,
and if he drops by from 100 miles away without calling, I leave
or do not answer the door. Life is too short to waste it on idiots.
I have been married for 36 years and have awful in-laws. Just recently
my oldest son married a beautiful girl from another country. She
has a college degree, speaks 5 languages, sews, cooks, is a size
2 minus, and is good as gold to our son. I realize that she may
well be taking care of me in my old age, or have the power to monitor
my care. She may give me the grandchildren that I have been longing
for these last 10 years. I am treating her like a golden treasure.
My ILs have all been ugly to my DIL because she is foreign. She
speaks better English than they do, and she is so sweet and wonderful.
Anyway, I intend to do everything that I can for the happy couple
without being overbearing. I give them time to themselves and do
not call or drop by uninvited. When my son telephones, then I might
ask them out to dinner, and I do shower gifts on them because they
had to have a small wedding because she has no family over here
and they could not extend his visa to marry over there. They are
of different religions, which requires 6 months waiting over there.
Some of our family did not even give them presents. Most of her
family was washed away by the tsunami, and those who are left have
nothing. Anyway, my son and DIL need everything to start a household,
and so I do not mind using minor holidays like Valentine's Day and
Easter to give them gift certificates or furniture. I have even
gone so far as to buy things that I know that they need or like,
and add the name of some distant relative to the gift card and offer
to mail the thank you note or have it sent to a friend's relative
so that they do not know it came from me. My gifts have no strings
attached, and I know that I am lucky to have them in my life.
Signed - Lucky
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