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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 22, 2007
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MY FMIL is he!! bent on
wrecking our marriage. She isn't interested in our plans, and when
we tell her what is happening, she hits the roof because she doesn't
like them. For example, she had a fight with me because we have
put a formal dress code on the invites. I don't know what to do
about her. She cried because my FDH told her to buy a plain black
shirt for FBIL, not a striped one like she wanted him to wear.
He is in the bridal party, so yes, he has to wear a plain one.
What do I do?
Signed - Help. My Wedding
Is Doomed
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Now that my DD has been
weaned, MIL has started hinting around that she'd love to baby-sit,
or just have her over once in awhile. I am a SAHM, so there have
been very few times that I've needed a sitter. MIL is welcome to
spend as much time as she wants with DD (and she has been told this
many times), so long as DH or I am present. I am extremely uncomfortable
letting her watch DD unsupervised. MIL and FIL are both elderly
and not in the best of health, and even if that weren't the case,
I have heard far too many horror stories about their neglectful
parenting. What they did when DH and BIL were kids would get your
parental rights terminated today. I do not want to hurt this woman's
feelings, but allowing her to watch DD unsupervised is just not
an option. Any suggestions on how to tactfully dodge the situation?
Signed - Over My Dead
Body
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Worst gift: My heart
goes to my dauntless fellow DILs. I have been married for 6 years.
My MIL is a generous woman who always remembers to buy me gifts
on special occasions. The problem, however, is that she never removes
price tags when she gives me presents (except when the gift is obviously
cheap stuff). Every holiday and special occasion I know exactly
how much she "had to spend" on the gift that she bought
for me. It is not like she "accidentally" forgets to
remove the tags, because she seems to remember to remove the price
tags from the gifts that she buys for my DH. Then she goes on and
on about how she is having financial difficulties and she must sell
her car because she cannot afford to buy medications and other things.
One day I visited her and she gave me absolutely the worst gift
ever. It was a ruggedy pink polyester jacket, so shabby that it
was frayed and dusty all over. This is what happened: When I went
to her house, I saw this dusty large black plastic garbage bag on
the floor, which I simply thought it was just one of the garbage
bags that she wanted me to take out on my way out (she has a habit
of accumulating trash by the door, so someone nice eventually will
have to offer to take them out). How wrong I was. Her gift, the
shabby dusty pink jacket, appeared from the very garbage bag on
the dusty floor! What's more, she smiled at me and said that it
was from her and my SIL (her DD) as she handed me the garbage bag.
I just didn't know what to say to her, but as a dutiful DIL I tried
it on and respectfully thanked her. She added, "Do you know,
Oprah wears a jacket just like this one?" BTW, she managed
to remove the price tag this time.
Signed - I Get The Message
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