Crazy MIL...tell me your stories

[Anonymous]

I've seen my MILs vagina- multiple times...b/c she wears short nightgowns and no underwear. Disgusting!

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Anonymous wrote:The night before our wedding, DH comes up to me at the very beginning of our rehersal dinner, moments after we arrived. Can we talk about something in private? he asks, pulling me aside. Apparently the first thing his mother did when we arrived was to pulled him aside and tell him that I said she was not allowed at our wedding rehersal. OMG! Its was a total lie. My Dad, thankfully, had heard every word of my and MILs conversation on the phone earlier that day and could have backed me up if DH didn't believe me. That night, less than 24 hours before my marriage to her son, I realized she would stop at nothing to "beat" me in the contest for DH's love. It progressed from there. She is a liar, a hypocondriac, a selfish, self centered witch who couldn't find the truth if it bit her on the a$$ and she desperately wants to be Number 1 in her son's life.

In one of her more memorable attacks, after my DH confronted her about something nasty she said to me, she told him I was lying and she never said that. He laughed and told her I hadn't told him anything, he had overheard it through the open windows of the house as he was walking past. She later said "why are you defending her?" To which DH said, "I love her and she is my wife." At which point my crazy, sobbing, MIL screamed "but I AM YOUR MOTHER" When I walked in to the room a little while later she flew across the room and tried to hit me!!! I swear, I am not making this up." DH finally fully saw the light that day, Thank God. Of couyse, she is his mother and so he occaisionally starts to think she's not that bad. Sadly though, she is that bad and always does something to make him remember just what a nightmare she is.

She can not tell reality from her "re-invention" of every partof her past. We constantly catch her making things up and flat out lying. I have neverin my life met or heard of someone as utterly delusional as my MIL. She is also so self-absorbed that one of our children could pick up a butcher knife in her house and I swear she would never notice.

...and she wonders why we have never let our children go anywhere alone with her.

This sounds exactly like my MIL. It both hurt me and amazed me to read it.

When my husband stopped talking to his mother earlier this year, she called our house every night for weeks yelling, "YOU CAN'T IGNORE ME. I AM YOUR MOTHER!" It really reminds me of your MIL. Plus my MIL also can't tell the difference between reality and her fantasy version of her past. My MIL is also a hypocondriac who thinks she's dying every time she gets into a fight with us. In addition, a therapist once told me that she's a classic narcissist and probably has borderline personality disorder.

Lovely. At any rate, it made me feel better for a moment to realize there is more than one MIL in the world like mine. But I'm sorry and I feel your pain!

I am so sorry that my post hit home, PP. It stinks when your DH has such a person for a mother. As hard as it is on us, its difficult to imagine how much it hurts our DHs. The kicker for me happened today. DH says, "my mom is back in town (from the beach house) and called me yesterday when I was at the park with the kids. I didn't really talk to her much. I am so sick of her calling when its convenient for her, never being around when its convenient for me and never asking about the children or you or me." I said "I'm sorry Honey, but she does love you" then asked if he wanted to go out to dinner with her or have her over (I asked mainly to save him grief - so she can't bitch at him for never seeing her or offering to see her). He said "you know, what really pisses me off is that she only says she wants to see me (he didn't have to say here, not our children her only grandchildren, and not me the DIL)." I just looked at him in silence for a few minutes. He looked so defeated. It really sums up who his mother is and he really knows it. There was not a whole lot to say other than, "I know."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've seen my MILs vagina- multiple times...b/c she wears short nightgowns and no underwear. Disgusting!

oh, hell no! I feel sorry for you and way sorrier for your DH! I think if I ever saw my mom's vagina I'd cry.

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Anonymous wrote: I think if I ever saw my mom's vagina I'd cry.

Home sickness?

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Anonymous wrote: I think if I ever saw my mom's vagina I'd cry.

Home sickness?

And now I'm crying harder. As beautiful as I found my son's birth, I sure do feel grossed out thinking about mine! LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: I think if I ever saw my mom's vagina I'd cry.

Home sickness?

shudder.

[Anonymous]

I've never met mine...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never met mine...

Your mother-in-law? Why not?

I have a friend who's been married for six years, two kids, visited her husband's country/ city of birth (in Africa) TWICE, and not met his mother. Both times she visited, they stayed in a hotel. They made plans to have a restaurant meal with his parents, but they canceled each time. I see the lack of interest as a lack of respect. My friend flew halfway around the world, and her husband's mother couldn't even meet her in a restaurant, much less host her in the family home. And I attribute that to the fact that my friend is a WASP, and her husband is a Muslim. I think the MIL is still hoping that her son will come to his senses, abandon the American family he's made, and come home and marry a nice local girl. Ugh. To me, that's worse than all the clumsy attempts at assistance ("No, MIL, I don't want you to give my teething eight-month-old some honey and brandy! But thanks.").

[Anonymous]

My MIL used on her "disability" (manic-depression) in several court cases as a reason to get and keep her alimony, but has never once mentioned her mental condition with her children, DILs, sister or parents, and I do not believe has ever received treatment for it.

She fed my 6 week old, exclusively breastfeed niece whipping cream from her dirty spoon because she didn't believe babies needed to wait to eat solids.

She fed my 2 and 4 year old nieces raw cookie dough after my SIL told her not to.

She expresses favoritism of one niece over the other - one time, in front of both my nieces, my MIL pointed to the niece that looks like MIL and said "isn't that one beautiful."

When she came to visit me when DS was one week old, she whined and harangued me into making her tea, running out for food to feed her, and otherwise taking care of her while she rested.

On my first mother's day, she conned DH into making a trip to see him grandparents by lying and saying they needed someone to come help them - she knew that her sister and nephew were already scheduled to see them that day, but told DH that they were alone and needed help getting groceries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I like to hear stories about miserable in-laws to make myself feel a bit better. For any of you that have them, this story is a real good one.
I have always tried to maintain a cordial relationship with her. We have nothing in common but that never mattered to me, she makes it an issue. No big deal, that's fine. Then we were at her hell hole in June to stop by and meet our neice and have a bbq. After a while my 18 month old son wants to go inside. I think okay SIL is inside feeding the baby, MIL is inside talking with her they will be thrilled to have some time with my son. About 5 minutes later I decide to go inside and see what's going on. To my horror out of her bedroom walks my son holding a loaded handgun. Apparently her current husband sleeps with it on the floor next to his bed.

Needless to say I lost it and we left. My husband was furious with her. We are giving her a chance to have lunch with us tomorrow and I feel this serious hatred and don't want to sit at the table with her.

I know this story is insane, but I couldn't make this up if I tried!

wow...i have no words......

[Anonymous]

Guy here. This is for all you ladies. What's an anagram for "woman hitler"?

Give up?

Mother-in-law.

You're welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mother in law is staying with us right now...

She delivers little jabs pretty frequently, always reminding me that I didn't do something quite right. She seems to think that the only reason I do things my way is because I don't know her better way, so of course she has to tell me. Repeatedly. She never lets me get away with anything, always making sure I'm aware exactly where and how I fell short. For my own good, no doubt. My solution has been to mildly say, "yes, you mentioned that the last time you were here".

what she said...

[Anonymous]

When my DH and I got engaged, my mil wore black, cried, and didn't speak to us for three weeks. And she lives two doors down. AWKWARD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've never met mine...

Your mother-in-law? Why not?

I have a friend who's been married for six years, two kids, visited her husband's country/ city of birth (in Africa) TWICE, and not met his mother. Both times she visited, they stayed in a hotel. They made plans to have a restaurant meal with his parents, but they canceled each time. I see the lack of interest as a lack of respect. My friend flew halfway around the world, and her husband's mother couldn't even meet her in a restaurant, much less host her in the family home. And I attribute that to the fact that my friend is a WASP, and her husband is a Muslim. I think the MIL is still hoping that her son will come to his senses, abandon the American family he's made, and come home and marry a nice local girl. Ugh. To me, that's worse than all the clumsy attempts at assistance ("No, MIL, I don't want you to give my teething eight-month-old some honey and brandy! But thanks.").

I agree, it's totally worse - but not worse than the loaded gun. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

So WHEN exactly can I tell my MIL to f* off?