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Mother-In-Law Mall
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Mother-In-Law Stories
February 28, 2007
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MIL has 6 children. One
of them passed away from a disease before I met DH. DH is child
#2. He has 1 older brother and 3 younger sisters. I have noticed,
in my 5 year marriage, that MIL has a tendency to pick favorites,
and she doesn't do it mildly. DH lived with his parents up until
our wedding. Then, of course, he moved out. When we got back from
our honeymoon, we noticed that the door to our new house was unlocked
and that a window was broken. Inside our house were boxes and boxes
of DH's stuff. MIL took it upon herself to move DH out of her house.
The broken window was due to the fact that she didn't have a key.
DH and I were more than willing to do the move ourselves. Now,
every time that she finds something that might be DH's, she throws
it into his truck. She does not put it in the cab, she puts it
in the box, where it could potentially get destroyed. DH told me
that she does the same thing with 2 of his sisters. One day I saw
MIL yelling at one of her DDs and telling her that if she did not
bring her cr@p home with her, she was going to burn it. These were
trophies from various events that SIL had won. You'd think that
MIL would be proud to display them. I know that my mother would
be. Here is where things get interesting. MIL won't let BIL and
SIL bring home any of their stuff. Why? Because she has their
stuff locked in fancy china cabinets. She actually has a room with
four very fancy, lighted china cabinets. These cabinets are marked
with the names of both brothers (older BIL and deceased BIL), little
sister, and younger sister's first born child. Her GS is 5 years
old (a brat, and NOT MIL's first GC). When people confront her
about how she treats my DH and his two sisters, and why she bends
over backwards for both BILs, little SIL and GS, she gets furious
and denies the whole thing. Even FIL notices this and tries to
make up for it by giving DH and the other two SILs a little extra
attention. But, DH and SILs still dislike their own mother. DH
has told me, more than once, that he hates his mother because of
this. Did I mention that GS has two younger FULL siblings, 3 years
and 6 months, and MIL totally ignores them, even though they are
very precious little sweeties. BIL and SIL have both been in and
out of jail, and are always in trouble. Does anybody else have
ILs like this?
Signed - If You Are Going
To Pick Favorites, At Least Admit It
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( here is my story )
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This is a story about
my own mom, not my MIL. However, there is plenty of scope there
as well! Some time ago we had a family christening to which my
FMIL wasn't invited. On the actual morning of the christening my
BM asked me if FMIL was attending. I said, "No, I didn't invite
her." She said, "Well, why don't you go ahead and ask
her." FMIL is religious, loves kids, and already knows my
family from before BF and I got together, so I knew that she would
be over the moon to be asked. BTW, it was my DS's kids getting
christened. She then stood right next to me as I phoned FMIL and
invited her, just to make sure she definitely came. Everything
was fine. We had a perfect day, OR SO I THOUGHT. Everyone got
along, etc., etc. However, after it was all over and they had all
left, my ENTIRE family was all sniffy and b!tchy about FMIL!!!
I never managed to quite get a real reason, apart from the general
consensus was that she was "pushy", and I always got the
impression that something had been said that I shouldn't know about.
After all of 19 months the TRUTH has finally come out via DS. It
seems that throughout the day my BM went around telling all the
guests that BF's mum had "invited herself", and all the
other guests were laughing behind their hands at me because they
had been told that BF had come out on a "date" with me,
and brought his mother along. WTF? Can anyone shed any light,
at all, on why a BM/NM would care to do this to her own DD?? WHAT
A B!TCH. I am at a point of virtual no contact with my own family
at present anyway because of their general scape-goating, bullying,
etc., But, for some reason, of all the things that she has done
over the years, I really find it hard to get past this one. Any
advice?
Signed - We Had A Perfect
Day, OR SO I THOUGHT
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( here is my story )
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Worst gift: MIL is so
convinced that I am not a lasting wife to my husband. When we had
our only child, I suffered a massive blood clot. The doctor said,
"No birth control pills for you, and a much more reliable method
would be absolutely necessary, since this pregnancy would be an
only." The doctor said to my DH "Step up to the plate,
'er, scalpel." So we informed MIL that our son would be an
only, and asked if they would they be willing to baby-sit while
my DH underwent a vasectomy? MIL was yammering on about how we
should just use the "rhythm method" and why should HER
SON go thru this "irreversible surgery", since we may
not be married for life? I will never forget that. It immediately
affected my relationship with her in a permanent way. Also, looking
back at EVERY photo taken of her at our wedding, there is NO smile
from her! FIL was beaming, and knew we had a pre-honeymoon baby
on the way. He welcomed me to the family and asked me to be sure
to take my DH's name. MIL's sister was very sweet to me, and gave
us a lovely check for an expensive appliance. MIL "gave"
us a clock that my DH built himself, for her, in a wood crafter's
class! She had it stored away in her garage for years! FIL was
mortified! He was floored because he had told her to write a fat
check (my DH told me that his dad asked why we hadn't bought some
new furnishings with it!). We were like, "huh?, what dough?"
That FIL of mine was a very dear man. She will never know that
I composed his eulogy. She thinks that my DH did it. Let the baby
have her bottle! She will NEVER know how much fun she could have
had with me, and her grandson!
Signed - Not Even Re-gifted
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