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Mother-In-Law Mall
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Mother-In-Law Stories
January 23, 2010
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Frequent
Fry Her TM.
- The Outsider DIL/Posted: 23-JAN-10
DH's aunt threw a baby shower for SIL. She ended up having 6 baby
showers. I was invited to every last one and was expected to show
up with a gift to each. MIL not only b!tched me out for not going
to all of the other showers, she took things of my son's that I
was keeping for his siblings, and gave them to SIL. I don't have
money to go buy all new things, and SIL and BIL's dog is notorious
for destroying things. This after I was extremely generous to her
with baby shower gifts (none of which I got a thank you note for).
MIL even got mad at me for not giving SIL DS's incredibly expensive
baby swing. She didn't talk to me for over a week because of it.
She also took DS's stroller and threw it out during an outing with
SIL. Then, she bought a girl stroller. This happened after she
and FIL had been saying that DS looked like a girl because I hadn't
cut his hair yet (his hair wasn't even that long). I was upset
that she would just throw out something of mine without even so
much as asking me. Along with that, I could have given that stroller
to a friend of mine, who is a single mom and desperate for a stroller.
She and FIL actually got mad at me for being kind of peeved about
it (even though I thanked them beforehand, and tried to explain
why I was upset). FIL came after me about this one as well. Of
course, he did this while DH wasn't there (this started becoming
commonplace for a while, to the point where DH started to feel as
if he couldn't leave me alone with them). When I was pregnant with
my first child, MIL took me to a discount department store, begrudgingly,
and only allowed me to shop from the clearance racks. Back then
there wasn't one for maternity at this particular store, so I had
to get things that were just bigger sizes. She then went to a yard
sale and bought some clothes in the most hideous floral print.
I was still pretty young when I had my first, so it was even more
inappropriate. I saved up a bunch of money and went and bought
my own maternity clothes from clearance racks. I had to pay full
price for some maternity jeans and black pants of my own for work.
The Christmas I was pregnant with my second child, MIL bought me
maternity clothes for Christmas. I was about 5 1/2 months and I
didn't ask for them, either. A bunch of them were way too small
and had to be exchanged and returned. She bought them from a large
discount store, and didn't keep the receipt, either. I was working
2 jobs, so you can imagine how much fun that was trying to get taken
care of. I was a lot bigger with my son than I was with my first,
so I was already self conscious about my size. Having to exchange
smalls and mediums for large and extra larges was embarrassing. It
made me feel bad about myself as well. When SIL was pregnant, MIL
took her, before she even needed maternity clothes, to maternity
boutiques and bought her a bunch of maternity clothes. She did
this several times during SIL's pregnancy. She even made a trip
that was supposed to be for getting me a dress for my bridal shower
(as I was midway through losing baby weight and had nothing to wear
other than some very loose sweatpants). She spent the trip ignoring
me, along with going shopping for herself at an upscale department
store. She made me get a dress for our honeymoon that was too big.
She was bound and determined that DH and I go on a cruise for our
honeymoon, even though neither of us wanted to. She was pushing
as hard as possible for us to abandon ship - no pun intended - regarding
the wedding plans that we had already made and paid for. SHE wanted
us to have a cruise wedding instead because that was what SHE wanted.
Also, that way she could stick around while we were on our honeymoon
and butt in whenever she wanted. Meanwhile, on a shopping trip
that included getting maternity clothes for SIL, I had to take my
son (10 months old), who was screaming after sitting for 20 minutes
in the same place in the small, back end of this store, and walk
around for over 2 1/2 hours. Then, after the maternity boutique,
MIL had to go and get a new phone because she had left her phone
on top of the car "by accident", and it fell off and broke.
So, off she and SIL went to the cell phone store. Meanwhile, I
was still having to push DS around. I had enough time to walk the
entire two levels of all 3 of the major department stores in that
end of the mall. MIL took forever to choose a replacement phone,
then made them change a bunch of stuff with her plan. Then, she
did a bunch of other stuff that took up more time. I couldn't try
anything on because they wouldn't let me take the stroller in the
dressing room with me. Also, if I stopped moving, DS started screaming.
I did my best to find some things to come back and try on. I went
back downstairs to the cell phone store. MIL was finally done,
and announced that it was time to go home. I asked about going
to find a dress for me, and she didn't even answer. We got back
to the car and went home. I had to have my DH take me 2 days before
the shower to get a $15 dress for me to wear for my bridal shower.
I was furious, as MIL had purposely blown me off again. She had
blown me off before when I had asked her to help me to find a long
line bra, as I hadn't shopped for one in 10 years and she had gone
with SIL to get one for SIL's wedding. Every time I asked her,
oh, she was busy. It finally came down to the weekend before I
was to have my dress altered. I asked her if she would go with
me. She was just sitting around watching TV. She completely blew
up at me, saying that no, she wouldn't take me and go shopping for
the bra. If it came down to it, I would have to get it tailored
in my nursing bra (a no under-wire, basic cloth nursing bra). And
that would be how it would have to be!
Signed - She Was Busy
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