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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 13, 2010
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I have just come upon
this website, and I thank God that I have. My FMIL is constantly
causing me stress and headaches, to the point where there are times
that I think I need to be admitted. DF and I have been together
for four years. As we are still in school, we still live at home.
Usually, DF will come stay at my house for a week, or I will stay
at his, as we both commute to school together. FMIL does not have
a job. She stays at home every day, as she also doesn't have a
license. When we stay at DF's house, it is as if we took a trip
back into 1950. My FFIL is extremely chauvinistic, and constantly
degrades women through "jokes", saying that their rightful
place is in the kitchen. FMIL does EVERYTHING in the household,
from laying out my FFIL's clothes every night, to walking behind
him with a vacuum as he spills food all over the floor. It also
doesn't help that she mops every single day. She also vacuums,
dusts, and does laundry. She gets up at 4 in the morning just to
be up with her DH. She makes him breakfast, and wakes him up, because,
apparently, he is incapable of all of this. Meanwhile, she complains
about making dinner for everyone. She sees her other grandkids
who stop by as a "burden". She also complains about having
to cook dinner for me, although I tell her repeatedly that I cook
my own food at home (I'm a vegetarian). Although I tell her this,
she still cooks and b!tches to me about how she HAS to cook. To
top it off, she makes meals with meat in them, and gets even more
angry when I won't eat them! Also, because I am an independent
woman, she uses that against me. DF is her pride and joy. She
criticizes me when I don't iron his underwear and socks for him,
or when I don't do his laundry. When we visit with them, she won't
talk to me directly. I could be standing right next to my DF and
she will ask him a question about me. She hates when the attention
is on me. A year ago, I had major surgery, and not once did she
or her DH ask me how I was doing, send a card, or come visit me
in the hospital. Today, she dropped the bomb to me in an email.
FMIL is getting a hysterectomy, and she doesn't want my DF to know
because the news will sadden him. She knows that he and I are together
all the time, so he read the email over my shoulder. Now I'm the
one to blame for ruining everything and depressing everyone. Now,
I understand that having surgery is NOT fun, but I went through
the same thing a year prior. I don't need to hear that I have NO
idea what she is going through, which she has told me repeatedly.
Since she has already gone through menopause, I don't feel that
her surgery is as traumatic as it would be to someone who is young
or to someone who had cancer. She is moping around the house, crying,
and trying to get sympathy from everyone she can. Am I being insensitive?
Am I in the wrong? I feel like I have lost my mind.
Signed - I Don't Know
If I'm Too Angry To Think Straight
( responses to this story )
( here is my story )
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Worst gift: Birthday
gift - a box of thank you note cards. Christmas gift - an obviously
used book filled with, in my opinion, old fashioned phrases to use
when writing cards to people. Included in the back was a list of
all DH's family members (down to the cousin level - whom he never
sees), with their birth dates, anniversaries etc.
Signed - Some Other Old
Fashioned Phrases Come To Mind
( responses to this story )
( I can top this )
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