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Mother-In-Law Stories
November 29, 2006
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I've known my DH for 8
years, and we've been married for 3. I've really tried to like
my MIL, but it's really been a struggle. I just feel like she's
really fake, manipulative, jealous, stuck up, and many other things.
I think she's extremely jealous of the relationship that I have
with my DH, and wishes that I was either out of the picture or that
my DH would put her first. DH was still living with his mother
when I met him. My MIL and I had a great relationship at first,
but once we got engaged, everything went downhill. I think that
a part of the problem was that my MIL was very dependent on my DH
financially and emotionally. She was single when I met her. She
didn't really have any friends, and she wasn't out going at all.
She never went anywhere. All she did was stay home in her room.
She only has two children, and my DH is the youngest and only boy.
She's the type of mom who lives life through her children. Outside
of them, she has no life at all. She's been told by relatives to
get out of her children's lives and get her own. She was/is, in
my opinion, way too involved in her DD's marriage. It's so bad
that she calls or drops by her son-in-law's job if he does anything
to upset her DD. She goes off on him and tells him what he better
do. This was something that she did often. She still tells them
how they should raise their children. Son-in-law doesn't like it,
but his wife won't go against her mom at all. The problem that
my MIL is having now is that her son won't allow her to interfere
in his marriage or his business affairs at all. She's constantly
probing, and when DH tells her to back off, she gets highly upset.
She's also very clingy to her son. She always wants to be around
and to know what's going on. It's like she's obsessed with him.
She calls him every day. If she says anything, it's law. She's
so sensitive when it comes to him and she's not like that with anyone
else, not even her DH. Every so many months she'll go into a depression
and call my DH crying, because he doesn't call or visit enough.
She's always calling him and complaining about her life and finances,
but she won't do anything about it. It's like she's waiting for
him to bail her out. DH and I are doing well financially, and she
feels entitled to funds as well. When we go out to dinner with
her, she never offers to pay or leave a tip. If she asks my DH
for anything and he says no, she gets upset and cries. Our relationship
is really strained. She doesn't like me and I can feel it, although
she pretends. I don't think that it has anything to do with me
as a person, I think it all stems from her not having the relationship
that she wants with her son, and her blaming me for that. She's
tried to pit my DH against me by taking my words and twisting them
all up. DH defended me because he knows his mother lashes out at
me because she doesn't have the heart to do it to him. She's always
saying that she loves me like I was her DD, but I don't feel that
at all. As long as she has her son, she could not care less about
me. It's like she tries to get along with me because she feels
that she has to in order to be close to her son. This results in
a strained relationship. I try to avoid going around her as much
as possible. I've twice let my guard down and said that I was going
to forgive her, but every time I did, something else would happen.
I'm to the point now that I don't want a relationship with her.
But this is going to be very hard, considering that this is my DH's
mother. I just don't know how to not let her bother me.
Signed - Need Help!
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DH's aunts (FIL's sisters)
are very prejudiced women when it comes to wives/mothers. You must
be the first wife and you must be a mother. Not just one or the
other, but both. I am DH's second wife and I don't have children
yet (someday). Therefore, I am considered mega trash. DH's first
wife cheated on him even before they got married, yet I am scum
because I am his second wife. DH's cousin's wife is just plain
trash. She has a baby, but she is also wife number 2. I know this
is just silly venting and you're probably laughing your head off,
but these women are completely f$#&ked in the head. DH agrees.
It doesn't bother me because it's just silly, but what am I supposed
to do, tell them that I'm sorry for not finding DH sooner and putting
out? Ha ha ha.
Signed - Silly, Old,
YET VERY ANNOYING Women
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This is a story about
my DD's MIL. A true MIL from he!!. DD's MIL was hospitalized last
year and almost died. Since her release from the hospital she has
taken residency with her son and my DD, who have two children, ages
five and three. This woman is unbelievable. She believes in witchcraft
and reads Tarot cards all the time, predicting the outcome of the
day. Her constant and persistent lies about her and her son's lives
have been proven false. She not only criticizes my DD, but I have
witnessed her cussing my DD, and almost slapping her to get her
to be quiet and not dispute what she says. She is constantly lazy
and sits around the house in an oversized nightshirt, not helping
my DD with the housework or anything. Although she has recovered
from her health problem and is able to go back to work, she doesn't
contribute to the household funds to help buy groceries, pay utilities,
etc. Instead, she mooches off my DD. My son-in-law has never held
down a job for more than three months until this year. He's worked
four months straight at his new job. For the past six years my
DD has supported the entire family, including her BIL and nephew
for three months this summer, and now her MIL has moved in, too.
My son-in-law and his mother gang up on my DD. She is treated like
a prisoner in her own home. She cannot go anywhere because their
car has been repossessed because her DH took her paycheck, spent
it, and did not make car payments. My DD is continuing to beg for
everything that she gets out of this marriage. I have tried to
talk to her, but I believe that she is literally afraid of her DH
and his mother. How can I convince her to escape this abusive home
and marriage, and the abusive family that she married, before she
is dead? She stays depressed, cries, and has lost all of her self
esteem.
Signed - A Concerned,
Loving Mother
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