Babycenter DWIL board

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the heck does DWIL stand for?

I thought it was "Dancing With the In-Laws"

[Anonymous]

Is there a comparable advice board for dealing with your own parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a comparable advice board for dealing with your own parents?

That board also dels with "FOO" - Family of Origin- which means your now parents or siblings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is actually a lot of good advice on that board if you can get one of the older and mature posters to respond.

The board gets flooded with young twenty somethings who are married and struggling and really don't have enough life and practical marriage experience to offer advice.

Agreed. There are also a bizarre amount of people who have dealt with CPS, the police, restraining orders, and jail. If you post there, the answer will almost always be, "cut them off." If you post here, the answer seems to mostly be, "you are a bad child-in-law and don't understand the importance of family."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is actually a lot of good advice on that board if you can get one of the older and mature posters to respond.

The board gets flooded with young twenty somethings who are married and struggling and really don't have enough life and practical marriage experience to offer advice.

Agreed. There are also a bizarre amount of people who have dealt with CPS, the police, restraining orders, and jail. If you post there, the answer will almost always be, "cut them off." If you post here, the answer seems to mostly be, "you are a bad child-in-law and don't understand the importance of family."

HAHAHAHA - hilarious! I am convinced MIL is on here telling everyone to be nicer to the b*tch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is actually a lot of good advice on that board if you can get one of the older and mature posters to respond.

The board gets flooded with young twenty somethings who are married and struggling and really don't have enough life and practical marriage experience to offer advice.

Agreed. There are also a bizarre amount of people who have dealt with CPS, the police, restraining orders, and jail. If you post there, the answer will almost always be, "cut them off." If you post here, the answer seems to mostly be, "you are a bad child-in-law and don't understand the importance of family."

Wow. Just took a look at that site. They are hardcore wifezillas.

I think some of them must be posting on DCUM--it would explain the crass level of snark lately.

[Anonymous]

They r crazy,
One called the cops in her MIL for taking her pain pills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They r crazy,
One called the cops in her MIL for taking her pain pills.

[Anonymous]

I am the OP of this post. I guess I think the advice can be good sometimes, but I am just fascinated/appalled by the hardcore groupthink there. It is an impressive Internet phenomenon. Someone should do a thesis!

[Anonymous]

I think many of those stories are fake /trolls. Still entertaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They r crazy,
One called the cops in her MIL for taking her pain pills.

I don't understand. Why WOULDN'T you call the cops?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think many of those stories are fake /trolls. Still entertaining.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think many of those stories are fake /trolls. Still entertaining.

I don't think so. I actually think outside of the DC area when you move towards more rural areas where people get married very young and the pressure to do well in school/start a career isn't the focus that the kind of crazy, drama situations can and do occur.

Also, the large number of professionals in this area who deal with political issues or other "sensitive" areas means they are much more adept at negotiating, smoothing things over, etc.

[Anonymous]

Also, the large number of professionals in this area who deal with political issues or other "sensitive" areas means they are much more adept at negotiating, smoothing things over, etc.


Agree. Also, the older and more mature you get, the less likely you are to be reactionary and black and white.

[Anonymous]

A lot of this is socioeconomic. The average DCUM poster is not dealing with a druggie pill poppin MIL or a meth addict aunt who wants an all access pass to their baby. These kinds of situations bring out the crazy. Many posters here are completely insulated from these kinds of thing. How many 19 yo moms who live with the MIL bc they can't afford their own place bc the baby daddy works full time at McDonald's are on DCUM? The kinds of family stressors they face are likely going to be far different that the minor family kerfuffles experienced by a Chevy Chase MIL pearl clutching because her son and DIL have settled in Silver Spring.