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Mother-In-Law Mall
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Mother-In-Law Stories
March 29, 2008
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I am living with my ILs.
Like a lot of couples from my ethnic background, we can afford to
buy our own house, but we are not allowed to do so. I can't even
buy my own TV for my room, or cook my own choice of food. My MIL
interferes in everything. DH loves my cooking, and that's why my
MIL doesn't want me to cook. When I don't cook, MIL complains to
my DH that I don't do anything. She wants to be in charge of the
house and keep the house the way she wants. She just wants me to
obey her. I should cook what she wants when she wants it. When
I cook good food, FIL and MIL never compliment it. Whenever there
is a family reunion, she ignores me and SIL's DH, and praises her
own kids. I want DH and me to move out. I feel so trapped. I
don't know what to do. I have asked DH so many times to move out,
but he doesn't agree. MIL and FIL control DH too much. SIL does
not live with her IL. They live in their own house. And my ILs
are always praising SIL, saying that she is so nice to her ILs.
MIL always tries to prove that she loves my DH more than I love
him. Whenever I complain about the situation, DH gets upset with
me, fights with his parents, fights with me, and then everything
is out in the open. This just weakens my case. We don't have any
kids yet. We are trying to conceive, though. How should I proceed?
Please give me some advice. Are there any women living in US who
were in my situation? How did you guys move out?
Signed - Desperate And
Depressed
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Quote from My MIL. "If
you are feminine, you can get your DH to do anything you want."
When I first met my MIL, many years ago, I thought she was a sweet
(too sweet?) little old lady. I soon realized that everything had
to be done to suit her. Over the years, I have come to realize
that she is probably very seriously ill. Let me share some examples
of her behavior. When we married, the ceremony had to be held in
the church where she was married, and the reception had to be in
the same hotel. It would break her heart otherwise. DH was very
keen to leave the country and work overseas. We left 2 weeks after
the wedding, and only returned to live 16 years later. While overseas,
DS was born. MIL came to visit to look after our older child.
Sadly, my son was diagnosed with a heart problem. While I was still
in hospital waiting for a confirmed diagnosis, my MIL became very
upset about losing her camera. I was asked to check the rubbish
bin in my room, in case it had been thrown out, and to ask all the
cleaning staff to check, too. Her upset at losing the camera went
on for days, until I came home with the baby. We found the camera
in a bag of wrapping paper in my bathroom. I discovered that my
DD, age 3, had not been bathed for 6 days (camera in bathroom -
other people used the shower room), and was amazed that neither
my DH nor my FIL thought that there was anything strange about her
behavior. I was so worried about my baby that all my energy was
focused on that problem, so I didn't tackle either my MIL or DH
at that point. Perhaps MIL's behavior became bolder because she
got away with this incident. More frightening stories of the poison
dwarf to follow.
Signed - I Thought She
Was A Sweet (Too Sweet?) Little Old Lady
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Worst gift: For our
25th wedding anniversary my MIL gave us one silver colored placemat
and one cotton napkin!
Signed - Poison Dwarf's
DIL
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