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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 6, 2008
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MY MIL is a royal pain
in the @Ss She is a big burden. DH and I had to MOVE AWAY FROM
HER two years ago. Not soon enough. A one hour drive. She still
expects us to visit more. We see her once a month, and that is
more than enough. I am on good terms with her on the surface, and
we frequently e-mail, but I can't stand to visit her. She is extremely
irritating and gossipy, and is very controlling. She is demanding
of our time. She is possessive of my DH. At least she tries to
be, anyway. MIL calls my DH "HER BOY". "MY (his
name inserted)". She was calling him, "HONEY," in
front of me. It's sickening. I wasn't sure who she was talking
to at first. MIL, what a piece of work. I really try to avoid
her as much as possible. She is needy and expects my DH (and me,
too) to fulfill her needs. She needs a lot of attention, and tries
to act like my DH is her DH. DH recently had a car accident, and
MIL wanted us to sleep over her house so that she could take care
of my DH. She also told my DH that he could sleep IN HER BED.
Can you imagine? Without her, I am assuming. Then, she looked
at me for an answer about us coming over to sleep there. I was
shocked! MIL wanted to take care of him, and kept asking me if
I WAS SURE. Those are her newest words for me, "ARE YOU SURE?"
Now I tell her, "Yes, I am POSITIVE." She wants to be
very involved in our lives. WE are the married couple who lives
the closest. MIL's other married children live out of state. She
lives through her 30 year old children. She wanted us to sleep
over at Christmas time as well, when the out of state people were
there. WE have never slept there, and we never will. WE said,
"NO." MY life is wonderful for the one or two months
we go without visiting. MIL is dependent on my DH to fix things,
like her computer. She panics if something goes wrong, and calls
him immediately in a panic stricken voice. It is so ridiculous,
and he calls her back ASAP, even when he was just sleeping. Help!
Any advice, other than to never visit her again? I can't stand
it. Last Christmas, she asked us to sleep over this Christmas.
One year in advance I told her, "We'll see." That meant
a DEFINITE NO.
Signed - Exhausted Daughter-In-Law
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I received a Christmas
miracle! MIL has been passive aggressive, rude, hypocritical and
two-faced for 10+ years, and sometimes it seemed as if I was the
only one to see it. I took it for a long time, then was labeled
"oversensitive" by her family when I tried to address
the situation like an adult. Thank God DH always believed me, even
though she usually picked times when we were alone to dish out her
rude remarks. Not this Christmas. She drank too much, made gossipy,
rude comments about everyone behind their backs, and tried to make
my family look bad by bringing up a very personal issue in mixed
company. She took over her DD's kids, as if they were her own,
and reminded everyone how much she disliked her own MIL (who was
there)! She topped our visit off by telling my DH that she wouldn't
come to our house for Christmas, because she needed to be around
the GC for the holidays (we don't have children). DH says that
she's made it very clear that she wants the holidays on her terms
only, so we don't have to haul our butts halfway across the county
in the winter to see her. We don't have to worry about her coming
to visit us! After seeing her with the GC, we are so glad that
we had none of our own.
Signed - Laughing Wife
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Worst gift: MIL gave
us a wedding gift of honeymoon accommodations at the resort of her
choice. She followed us with FIL for the duration of the vacation.
DH didn't make much of it.
Signed - Comments???
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