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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
February 24, 2008
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This is just one tiny
example of how my MIL, who I suspect has borderline personality
disorder, has treated me. We had been fighting for four months
(that's right, four months). I had tried numerous times to make
up with her. She apologized and acted remorseful. Then, when I
didn't immediately want to be her best friend again, it would start
all over again. What did she expect when she cussed me out, told
me that I was a horrible person who was not fit to be her GD's godmother,
told me that my DH's biggest mistake was marrying me, etc. I stopped
answering my cell phone at work. I couldn't get away with screening
calls to my office line, but she always just wanted to leave a nasty
message and carry on with her day rather than talking anyway. So,
when she called my cell phone, I ignored it. Apparently, she then
called my DH's cell phone. He was in class. She then called me
back and left a message about how she couldn't believe that she
can never reach us when she needs to (she does have my office line,
so in an emergency, if she really needed to reach me, she knew she
could), and that she needed someone to take my FIL, who has horrible
heart problems, to the hospital, because he thought he was having
a heart attack. Ever heard of calling an ambulance? She made a
big production about how she needed my DH to have this information
and that he should come to the hospital. She didn't want me anywhere
near the hospital and I better not show up there. Well, of course
I went with my DH. FIL ended up being loosely diagnosed with a
heart attack. For the first hour and a half that we were all at
the hospital, MIL didn't speak to me. She even tried to ditch us!
We were in the ER, and she went down to the cardiology wing, where
they had taken FIL. She didn't bother telling us. We found her
after half an hour. She then got upset and told my DH that she
was mad that I wasn't speaking to her!!! I started trying to have
a rational conversation with her, since she insisted on doing this
at this certain time and place. She knew that everything I said
was valid. But, she would look at my DH and say, "I can't
believe you let her talk to me like this." After she and my
DH had gone back to the room to get the news, she came out and was
all, "Life is too short for this cr@p. I love you, blah, blah,
blah." She still tries to get things stirred up again, and
I've managed to defuse a number of situations with her. She also
trashes me behind my back to everyone who will listen, including,
but not limited to, my SIL, and the woman who paints her house (yes,
seriously). There have been no big blowups so far. It's been six
months. I'm hoping I can keep it going, at least until we have
kids. That will be a whole other ball game.
Signed - The Devil Incarnate
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Funny/sad story. Let
me start by saying MIL is totally evil and a home wrecker. Last
night, DD's fish died. She had gotten it as a Christmas present.
DD is 7, and she was really upset. She told me, "But, the
fish wasn't even a year old. How can a baby die?" I sat down
and explained to her that, in human years, the fish was 70 years
old, and we will definitely get another fish for her as well. She
said "Oh, just like GP (FIL) died at 70, too?" I told
her yes, that's exactly the same. They both will now live together.
She said, "If they both died at 70, why is GM (MIL) still alive?!!!?
I wish I had an answer for that one. What would you have said?
Signed - Keeping It Together
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Worst gift: After my
DH and I got back from our honeymoon, we opened all of our wedding
gifts at my parents' house. My parents are great, so they invited
my ILs over to watch us open our gifts. After we had opened everything,
my MIL made a big production, in front of my parents, my two sisters,
their DH's, and my sister's kids, of saying that they knew we had
taken an abbreviated honeymoon to save some money (and also because
we didn't have a whole lot of vacation time to spare), and that
we had wanted to go to Washington, DC for it. She let everyone
know that they would be paying for us to go to Washington, DC whenever
we went. Of course, everyone was very gracious and said how nice
that was. My family knows how she is, and they probably had the
same thought that I had in my head, "Yeah, I'll wait for THAT
check to come in the mail." Almost two years later, we've
never heard another word about it. We are planning to go to DC
at the beginning of July for a vacation. When I told my MIL about
our plans, she didn't even bring it up.
Signed - Still Waiting
for the Trip
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