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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
January 15, 2007
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A little background:
DH is an only child, and has always fought with his mom all his
life about her controlling ways. He succeeded at some things, and
not others. I can go on and on about how crazy she is, but here
are some examples: She demanded that we go on vacation with her
and FIL for the same exact number of days that we spend with my
parents (keep in mind that we live 40 minutes away from MIL and
FIL, and see them almost every weekend, while my parents live in
a different country). When we told them that we can't go on vacation
with them because then we won't have any vacation days left to see
my parents. She cried, whined, and kept repeating about how she
had "lost her son". She was insulted when we offered
to take her and FIL with us when we go visit my parents, and she
refused to consider a shorter vacation, such as a long weekend.
She even told us that she had spoken about this to her tennis coach
(?) and her coach agreed that we were horrible kids for not going
on vacation with them. She decided that we had to move in with
them because they are elderly and might need help "right then
and there". She cried and whined, etc., when we told her that
we would not move in with them. She blames me because we don't
have kids yet. She said that I should stop working like she did
so that we can have kids. She kept insinuating that since DH is
already supporting me, I should go ahead and quit. Little did she
know that I make more money than DH. We go there almost every weekend,
partly out of pity for FIL. Although I know that he did marry MIL
out of his own free will, we do feel sorry for him for having to
put up with her for so long (divorce is not an option for religious
reasons), and we both love FIL. Plus, she has alienated most of
the other family members and their friends, so they don't socialize
much. If we show up for dinner on a weekend, she whines every time
about how we should spend the entire weekend with her and how we
are horrible children. For Christmas we spent Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day, but she whined that we didn't spend the entire weekend.
DH has been very good about standing up to her, but I can tell it's
wearing him down because it usually involves hours of crying, shouting,
whining, etc., on her part. I don't know what else to do to support
him. I don't think it would help if I go talk to her myself, plus,
it's not like she listens to reason or logic. If anyone has any
suggestions please help.
Signed - Getting Close
to Committing Homicide
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Worst gift: The worst
gift I ever received from the monster-in-law was a queen bee charm
for my charm bracelet. This happened about 2 weeks after we had
a run in over the fact that my son wanted to sit next to me at the
weekly Sunday dinner. We have unspoken assigned seats. On this
day he asked to sit next to me. I said, "Sure, honey,"
and moved my BIL over to where DS would have sat (BIL was okay with
the move). Five minutes after MIL showed up in the dining room
she noticed, and all he!! broke loose. She was pissed, to say the
least. In addition to gifts from her, we all receive $100 for birthdays
(I never said that she wasn't generous). BUT, this same birthday
she stiffed me the $100. I was the only one that year to not have
received the cash.
Signed - Wonder What
All Out Musical Chairs Would Have Cost
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Worst gift: For my DD's
first Christmas my MIL gave her only GD a teething ring that she
found on the ground at the state fair. Never mind that it was stepped
on by hundreds of thousands of people, and probably buried in animal
manure. She said not to worry because she put it in the dishwasher.
Our dog didn't even want to play with it. Yet, she bought herself
a new mink coat.
Signed - I Have A Manipulative
MIL
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