Funniest/weirdest/most awkward encounter with your ILs

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Anonymous wrote:When my husband and I were first dating we visited his dad at his house. His wife flew to Japan to visit family, I was using their house computer which is located in the downstairs living area I typed in "j" in Google and "Japanese open" showed up. I clicked out but I really needed to use the computer... I went to type in something again and something came up along the lines of "how many people did my wife sleep with".


I said forget it and shut down the computer. I never told my husband this.

Japanese porn...not open

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Anonymous wrote:The Costanzas have brought a loaf of marbled rye bread which, when it isn't served with the meal, Frank sneaks away when they leave. While George and his parents are in the car, his parents continue to complain about the Rosses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rye

Missing bread pp- thanks for reminding me about this episode! lol, we did stop on the way home and get a loaf of the bread to bring to my parents as a way to smooth things over but it is still something my mom talks about sometimes- like "who does that?!"

It's a funny quirk of your in-laws, but I actually believe your parents seem worse by your account. They seem overly critical, and they can't let this go. They won't even host your in laws because of it? Who are the crazy ones here?

Agreed!

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL, when announcing to us that her husband's sister (DH's aunt) has treatable breast cancer, was giving us a rundown of treatments, etc. She looked at me and said, "Has anyone in your family ever had cancer?"

She knows, and has been told many times with details, that my own mother, grandmother and two aunts had breast cancer.

My MIL has done this too. I've confided in her - TWICE - about a very personal family matter and she asks a question months later that directly ignores the facts we're discussed and makes me re-explain. It's so hurtful.

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Anonymous wrote:MIL walked in on me giving my DH a handjob. I think I've mentioned this story on her before.
Anyway,It happened shortly after DH and I married and we were living with his parents, while we saved money and prepared to move overseas for grad school.

She hasn't adjusted to the fact her baby boy was all grown up and a married man, and among other things had a habit of walking into our room ( his old room) unannounced. Ignoring our requests to at least knock.

Well one Sunday we had the house to ourselves as my in-laws attend church and we don't ( another sore point for MIL at the time), DH and I were enjoying each other's company, we didn't realize in laws had returned home, and like she had done so many times before waltzed into our room unannounced.

She got an eyeful. Slammed the door shut. She got into a tizzy. Things were said. Argument ensued.

She also never forgot to knock from that point on. Now we're in our own home she's sure to call in advanced before visiting, and when they stay with us she's always makes her presence known before entering any rooms.

What was the argument about? I would have loved to be a fly on the wall (during the argument, not before!)

DIL was doing it wrong!

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DH and I had been dating a couple months when he told his parents over the phone that he had a girlfriend. One of the first things my now MIL asked was if I was on birth control. She then explained to him that if I got pregnant accidentally, it would be fine and they would love the baby and help us raise it (we were 27 and 30!). Turns out she was worried she would never have grandkids, DH's older norther doesn't want kids and DH hadn't dated anyone seriously since college before me. She is now a doting grandma to our two munchkins.

The first time I met my now ILs, we went to dinner at a restaurant. My FIL loves tech gadgets and is always buying stuff from QVC and the like, and he had just gotten a new flip video camera. I sat next to him at the table and he basicay videotaped me the entire meal. Everyone was asking me questions and I was trying to eat steak with the camera like 6 inches from my face for an hour. So uncomfortable.

The next time I saw my FIL a few months later, at another restaurant, he asked me about wiping after going to the bathroom. Do I fold or crumple? He said I seemed like a folder. How much TP did I use? Sooo weird, but no one else seemed to think it was an odd topic to bring up at lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL, when announcing to us that her husband's sister (DH's aunt) has treatable breast cancer, was giving us a rundown of treatments, etc. She looked at me and said, "Has anyone in your family ever had cancer?"

She knows, and has been told many times with details, that my own mother, grandmother and two aunts had breast cancer.

My MIL has done this too. I've confided in her - TWICE - about a very personal family matter and she asks a question months later that directly ignores the facts we're discussed and makes me re-explain. It's so hurtful.

Me three. Actually both my MIL and FIL do this. To me and their own son. But then again, they're narcissists.

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MIL and FIL are divorced but very civil. First time I met FIL (well before we were married) we were out at breakfast and DH went to the bathroom and FIL said to me confidentially that MIL had not liked DH's last GF because she was older than DH and presented it as her worry about having grandkids. I am 6 years older than DH. It was awkward generally but he had no idea he stuck his foot in it.

Now I adore my MIL, and she did not know my age until well after we were married and I think it surprised her when it came up inadvertently but was never an issue other than her checking in with her DD to make sure DH and I knew we should be working on having grandchildren. Which was a hilarious conversation too.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I had been dating a couple months when he told his parents over the phone that he had a girlfriend. One of the first things my now MIL asked was if I was on birth control. She then explained to him that if I got pregnant accidentally, it would be fine and they would love the baby and help us raise it (we were 27 and 30!). Turns out she was worried she would never have grandkids, DH's older norther doesn't want kids and DH hadn't dated anyone seriously since college before me. She is now a doting grandma to our two munchkins.

The first time I met my now ILs, we went to dinner at a restaurant. My FIL loves tech gadgets and is always buying stuff from QVC and the like, and he had just gotten a new flip video camera. I sat next to him at the table and he basicay videotaped me the entire meal. Everyone was asking me questions and I was trying to eat steak with the camera like 6 inches from my face for an hour. So uncomfortable.

The next time I saw my FIL a few months later, at another restaurant, he asked me about wiping after going to the bathroom. Do I fold or crumple? He said I seemed like a folder. How much TP did I use? Sooo weird, but no one else seemed to think it was an odd topic to bring up at lunch.

I realize it's human nature to judge, so with that in mind: I have had jizz in my belly button, I would reuse washed scrunchies, and I have overshared with my sympathetic mil.... but the bolded is what disturbs ME. Poor you!

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MIL and FIL were separated, so when she needed outpatient surgery I told her I would go with her. She has no daughters and it was some kind of gyno surgery, plus I wasn't working at the time. When the doctors came in to talk to her before the surgery I got up to leave (we aren't THAT close), and she begged me to stay. They asked her if there was any chance she was pregnant, and she said yes. I almost barfed right there, but kept my cool. After the surgery on the way home she went on to explain that she needed sex more than my FIL could provide it, and that's why she stepped out. She's super conservative and straight laced, and really, this is more than anyone needs to know about their MIL.

I really just wanted to be her ride home. Good thing for DH we were already married at that point.

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Anonymous wrote:MIL and FIL were separated, so when she needed outpatient surgery I told her I would go with her. She has no daughters and it was some kind of gyno surgery, plus I wasn't working at the time. When the doctors came in to talk to her before the surgery I got up to leave (we aren't THAT close), and she begged me to stay. They asked her if there was any chance she was pregnant, and she said yes. I almost barfed right there, but kept my cool. After the surgery on the way home she went on to explain that she needed sex more than my FIL could provide it, and that's why she stepped out. She's super conservative and straight laced, and really, this is more than anyone needs to know about their MIL.

I really just wanted to be her ride home. Good thing for DH we were already married at that point.

Wow! That must have been awkward !

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Anonymous wrote:I think I might win. The first 3 years DH and I dated, we were long distance. One of those summers, I drove up to meet him and his family at their summer cabin. Late in the afternoon, DH and I offered to grill dinner and the rest of the family went for a boat ride. Well we had a quickie after not seeing each other for 2 months (DH had his own bedroom there and everyone was gone anyway). Thought we cleaned up well and got to grilling. When they came in from the boat, now MIL remarks on how I got sunburned and am already peeling. She says "see right here!" and offers me aloe while picking a piece of her son's dried cum off my shoulder...

Aaaaaaaggggghhhhhhhh

This is a fantastic story!

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Had been dating now DH for a few years, visiting his parents at their house for a party they were hosting. I was helping MIL run guests' coats upstairs to their bedroom and during the duration of the party, their BR door was open. Except, at one point, MIL cornered me and asked that I retrieve something specific from her BR. Walked by, saw the door was closed, so told MIL that I'd wait a few minutes. Nope. She insisted that I was to dash into her BR, grab whatever, door be damned.

I did a quick knock while opening and there was my future FIL, naked from the waist down, bending over to pull on...underwear, I guess. My eyes!

About the same time, but then engaged to DH. Went on huge family beach trip to OBX. Multigenerational, to include DH grandparents, aunts, cousins. Too many people in one house. MIL got a real bargain and once all there, we figured out why. Roof leaked in the bedroom I had, so in the middle of the night and for rest of vacation, I (along with DH and a female cousin) had to sleep on the floor in ILs BR.

This same vacation, since the toilets all were "inefficient" there was a long, public discussion about how we, the younger vacationers, might want to not flush every time and consider tossing t.p. in wastebasket rather than flushing it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Costanzas have brought a loaf of marbled rye bread which, when it isn't served with the meal, Frank sneaks away when they leave. While George and his parents are in the car, his parents continue to complain about the Rosses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rye

Missing bread pp- thanks for reminding me about this episode! lol, we did stop on the way home and get a loaf of the bread to bring to my parents as a way to smooth things over but it is still something my mom talks about sometimes- like "who does that?!"

It's a funny quirk of your in-laws, but I actually believe your parents seem worse by your account. They seem overly critical, and they can't let this go. They won't even host your in laws because of it? Who are the crazy ones here?

Agreed!

In my parents defense, they have hosted my ILs on plenty of other occasions and it has never been reciprocated. They don't judge them for it, as they assume they just do not have the means to do so. But they feel they no longer need to treat them on their dime at this point- (MIL is a bit cheap, both her children fully admit this, nobody really takes issue with it they just don't feel like footing the bill for them anymore!)

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Anonymous wrote:The Costanzas have brought a loaf of marbled rye bread which, when it isn't served with the meal, Frank sneaks away when they leave. While George and his parents are in the car, his parents continue to complain about the Rosses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rye

Missing bread pp- thanks for reminding me about this episode! lol, we did stop on the way home and get a loaf of the bread to bring to my parents as a way to smooth things over but it is still something my mom talks about sometimes- like "who does that?!"

It's a funny quirk of your in-laws, but I actually believe your parents seem worse by your account. They seem overly critical, and they can't let this go. They won't even host your in laws because of it? Who are the crazy ones here?

Agreed!

In my parents defense, they have hosted my ILs on plenty of other occasions and it has never been reciprocated. They don't judge them for it, as they assume they just do not have the means to do so. But they feel they no longer need to treat them on their dime at this point- (MIL is a bit cheap, both her children fully admit this, nobody really takes issue with it they just don't feel like footing the bill for them anymore!)

But honestly, all that drama over a loaf of bread? Uptight much?

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Anonymous wrote:When we told my in-laws that I was pregnant, FIL looked like he was trying to figure something out and then announced that we must have concieved during their last visit. When they stayed with us in our small apartment.

What is with all the pervy FIL stories? Gross.

I don't think that is pervy. My father is a math guy. I could see him doing something similar.

Openly speculating about your DIL having sex with your son? That is intrusive and weird. Do the math in your own head.

My mother and her friends did that all the time. I really do not think speculation like that will ever change. Nothing weird about...you must learn not to give out too much incriminating information! As for the breast feeding stories, that's a US first world problem. Go other places and women breast in public....to the point that if a baby is crying(like at a movie) people will yell at the mother to breast feed(but more crudely).

Huh? How is sharing your due date giving out "incriminating information"? What a bizarre idea. If you tell someone you're pregnant, the first thing they will usually ask is when you're due. Do you refuse to answer? People with a basic grasp of manners will understand that speculating about other people's sexual activity in front of them is rude and inappropriate.

Also, yelling at a woman to breastfeed is no better than yelling at a woman to not breastfeed. People should mind their own business. You have a very strange idea of what is appropriate.