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Mother-In-Law Mall
A place to find great gifts!
and products related to mothers-in-law and other family members.
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Mother-In-Law Stories
October 20, 2006
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Finding this site has
been great for me. I'm not even engaged to the BF, but we've been
together for three years and living together for 2. His mother
sends me up the wall. Most days it's all I can do to not throw
something at her head. When BF still lived at home, they would
fight constantly. I would try to calm him down and tell him that
family is important etc., etc. That all stopped when he reported
back the argument that they'd had over me and all the nasty things
that she said about me. Then, one day when he was 19, she got his
father to remove the starter cable from his car so that he couldn't
drive us down to a wedding the next day. She wanted us all to go
in one car, but we didn't want to spend two hours in a car with
her craziness. This was the final straw, and he told them that
he was moving out. We both found him a place to move into, but
it wasn't where I was living. When he sat down and told them, their
first reaction was "(My name)'s going to get pregnant."
WHAT?! How is that even an appropriate response? ARGH!!!
Signed - Cutoff Is Awesome
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My FMIL is a nightmare.
I am getting married in a few months. My parents are thrilled
about our forthcoming wedding and threw an engagement party earlier
this year to celebrate it. When we first came around to my
DF's parent's house after we became engaged, my FMIL gave me a hug
and said, "Congratulations. Hope you know what you are
getting yourself into. You'll have a crazy MIL and an arsehole
for a husband." She thinks this kind of talk is funny.
For the next five hours, while we were having our celebratory dinner
(toasted sandwiches, mind you - she is very bitter about her life
and selfish and never makes effort with people - e.g., she wore
a tracksuit to our engagement party), she did not mention our engagement
or wedding again. She later explained this behavior by saying
that she had been pissed off that my DF had not told her he was
going to propose to me before he did so (I did not know that this
was the tradition!). She thinks that her DH (my DF's father)
is a moron, a d!ckhead, and an arsehole, and tells everybody who
is polite enough to listen to this nonsense. She has privately
told my DF that she believes he is marrying his father (i.e., I
am as useless as his father is alleged to be). And so it goes
on. I have resolved now to let go of the idea of ever having
a close relationship with my MIL, to be civil, and to only have
contact with my MIL as is necessary for peaceful relations.
Previously I tried much harder. I invited her out for a coffee,
took her out to see the flowers for the wedding, drove out to her
house (while my DF was away) with afternoon tea for her and my FFIL.
Not anymore! I am still not really comfortable with this new
approach, as I like to think that people can grow and change and
that you should not give up on difficult people. Still, it
is starting to becoming apparent to me that for the sake of my health
and sanity it will best for me to keep my distance. Wish me
luck. I need it!
Signed - Keeping My Distance
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Worst gift: Worst Gift:
This happened before DH and I married, but it's my favorite gift
story (there are many to choose from). FSIL's BF gave FMIL an ugly
trinket box as a gift. To her credit, FMIL displayed the box, even
though it was ugly. She called FSIL's boyfriend a "loser"
behind his back, all the while acting super-friendly to him to his
face. This is how she is to everybody. I always noticed the box
on my visits and privately thought, "That box will disappear
if FSIL and her BF ever break up." Months later, FSIL and
her BF did break up, and the box did disappear. You know where
this is leading. That ugly box turned up again as MY birthday present!
I couldn't believe it, as if I hadn't seen the box in her house.
Not one to be shy, I exclaimed, "Oh! It's the box FSIL's ex-BF
gave you!" Long pause. My MIL finally stammered out, "Oh,
yes. I like it so much, I thought you'd like one, too." What
BS. But the woman gets points for thinking on her feet!
Signed - Laughing Wife
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