What’s the worst thing your in laws have done to you?
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Anonymous
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I used to drive my kids halfway in the summer so they could visit their grandparents. We’d meet at a busy shopping district and they’d take them out for the day. Everyone loved it. Then one day, when we couldn’t make it, my MIL told my DH that I kept the kids from her, and that these meetings never took place.
She never apologized, never admitted the truth, and I never again take the kids to her. |
Anonymous
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MIL and SILs laugh at me and talk behind my back about how I’m too uptight and frumpy.
I have a successful career & a good sex life with DH and IDGAF. |
Anonymous
I remember your other thread. You still standing your ground? |
Anonymous
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Lol
It’s probably not the most horrible thing per se but my MIL still don’t remember my last name, and I didn’t take my DH last name. She also still ignores the fact that I am Jewish, both FIL and MIL repeatedly said that I am not since I don’t practice Judaism. |
Anonymous
Absolutely! Lately they have started complaining about the gas they use to visit, the miles on their car, the time, the awful drive home. Hinting; pulling on my heartstrings slightly. But no apology. DH still stands by me and this is now our new normal, but we are in such a better place of mutual respect because of it. It’s working for our relationship. I couldn’t have done it without you guys. |
Anonymous
They haven't done anything horrible. They're more just good at playing the victim. MIL is always trying to get us to pay for things that they can afford, by claiming poverty. We see them a couple times a year (they live 2,000 miles away). |
Anonymous
Whoa - have you ever let your child vacation with them again? |
Anonymous
+1. |
Anonymous
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MIL's favorite topic is her ailments, and often her extended family's ailments, and her friends, too. One day during a flu epidemic, I (very pregnant) was asking about where I could get a flu shot, since I was new to the area, and my OBGYN and GP were out of shots. It was recommended that pregnant women definitely get the shot, if at all possible, and were given priority.
MIL went on about how she got her flu shot that morning. I asked if she could tell me where and she flat out refused; as if to say that she was more important than me or her unborn grandchild. When the baby arrived, we were two weeks without power or fresh water. First it was a storm (the town water was contaminated from the power outage), then a transformer blew. All of the meals and food I had prepared went bad, and DH refused to toss anything. No food and no water, recovering from surgery (c section) and with a newborn. Nearby MIL had plenty of room in her big house, with electricity and water - but her heart, as usual, was no where to be found. The hotels in the area were sold out completely. When she did come over to visit, she would announce (unsolicited) that she was "here to see the baby, not you!" I was nursing a newborn, and I was not going anywhere. It was a bunch of really snotty things over the years that made me see her true colors - selfish, self centered, and just rotten. Not so much "the worse things that MIL ever did to me", but that she is simply a bad person, in general. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1 Same here. It sucks. IL's use DH too. I want to tell them all that I know the truth about his upbringing, and that they are terrible people, and how dare they judge me, considering. They fool no one. They have tried to treat me the way they treat him, but they know better now. PP here. |
Anonymous
Do we have the same MIL? I know that is impossible as my DH is an only child, but the words are almost verbatim. |
Anonymous
No, and I found by accident 10 years later. |
Anonymous
| I’ve posted about it before but it’s buying a wedding dress for me even tho they knew my aunts hand sewed one for me. |