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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
December 4, 2006
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MIL recently emailed us.
She is not happy with our vastly reduced contact. Instead of asking
nicely, compromising, and being agreeable, she is sending emails
to DH and me. She alternates between insulting us, trying to shame
and guilt us, whining about how we/I torture her, and asking us
to invite her to visit us and see the children. She wrote me and
went on and on about how I've hurt her in response to my "perceived
feelings" of hurt, that I "claim" she caused me.
Her feelings are deep, profound, agonizing and devastating. My
hurt feelings are only "claimed" and "perceived".
She has real feelings, and I am being the silly one who is blowing
things out of perspective just to destroy her and be cruel.
Signed - Perceived Feelings
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( here is my story )
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Before DH and I started
dating, my MIL and I were very close. We'd shop together, get coffee,
anything. We had fun. Then I got the ring and saw the REAL her
that my DH would tell me about. She started by trying to tell me
what colors I should pick for our wedding, that the bridesmaids
bouquets would be ugly, what shoes I should buy (they were freakin'
ugly!), and so much more. She told us she'd give us $1000 to put
toward our wedding, but ONLY if we showed her our budget and bank
statements. Like any of that is her business. I said that we could
do without her money. DH stood up to her, and she didn't talk to
us for three weeks. Then we got married. She called at least once
a day. She felt that my DH, her firstborn, should be the man of
her house as well as our own. She expected him to fix everything,
help her with everything, and for us to come to dinner EVERY SINGLE
SUNDAY. She got upset if we wanted to go to someone else's house
for dinner. Of course, she played the martyr when DH stood up to
her. Then I got pregnant about five months into our marriage.
It was planned, but she didn't know it. After she went on about
how she hoped that we didn't have any more stockings to buy the
next year, we knew that she wouldn't be thrilled. Her response,
"Congratulations. I think. Is this a good thing? I was really
hoping you'd pay off your school bills first." Ugh! I was
so hurt! She was not thrilled about it at all. I was in the hospital
overnight during my pregnancy, and she found out from my boss.
I emailed her to apologize and she responded with a HORRIBLE email
in return. We had a LOT of issues with her disrespecting our wishes.
She claimed that she'd stop doing what she was doing, but she hasn't.
She drives me insane. I used to let DH handle everything. Now,
if she does something to tick me off, I just send her an email and
tell her. I don't even care if it makes her mad anymore.
Signed - Then I Saw The
Real Her
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( here is my story )
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Worst gift: No one in
my DH's family has EVER remembered my birthday. Needless to say,
I was surprised when there was a knock on my door the early evening
of my "special" day. It was my SIL and her DH. They
had stopped by on their way out to dinner (no invite, of course)
to drop off a present for me. She tossed me a plastic grocery sack
tied up with something in it. I opened it to find a purple baseball
cap with "Super B!tch" written across it. Gee, thanks.
To top it off, the next time I saw MIL, she said, "I heard
what SIL got you for your birthday. That's perfect for you!"
But, DH still insists that his family doesn't mean anything bad
by what they say to me.
Signed - Happy Birthday
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