Slightly Irritating Things Your In-Laws Do

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL knows I take an XL in t-shirts and then buys me t-shirts that she knows are too small and says "Well, I thought about getting women's women's XL, but then again you couldn't be that big, so I got a medium. I guess I can return it. Or wear it myself because I am so much smaller."

Omg this is so awful!

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My MIL always wears white. White cotton pants or a crisp white button down shirt or a white sweater. In the winter it’s cream. Maybe someone in 1986 told her what her “season” is and she is just stuck in a rut, but my kids are 4 and 1.5. White clothing and actually playing with my kids are incompatible. I need to buy her a smock or apron for my house. I swear she spends a good chunk of each visit in my basement with her stain stick.

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Anonymous wrote:MIL made her grandmother name Momo, so my little baby basically call her mama

My mom is Mimi. It will come in time. My 20mo old can clearly say Mimi differently than Mama. Although he has recently acquired a crazy accurate impression of his older brother who calls me Maaaaaaahm (imagine 4yr old whining).

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Anonymous wrote:They talk with food in their mouth, occasionally spitting bits of it on the table or to someone else’s food

Mine too - my mom and MIL both do it. They just can’t stop talking. You need a rules obsessed 4yr old like mine to call them out on each and every dining faux oa, every time. I have been patiently waiting for this moment since my son was conceived, patiently teaching him manners, never explicitly mentioning anyone else. I was so proud the first time he made her connection and called one of them on it. This is one area where I will not intervene to say “you worry about you”.

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Anonymous wrote:They talk with food in their mouth, occasionally spitting bits of it on the table or to someone else’s food

Mine too - my mom and MIL both do it. They just can’t stop talking. You need a rules obsessed 4yr old like mine to call them out on each and every dining faux oa, every time. I have been patiently waiting for this moment since my son was conceived, patiently teaching him manners, never explicitly mentioning anyone else. I was so proud the first time he made her connection and called one of them on it. This is one area where I will not intervene to say “you worry about you”.

Out of the mouths of babes, hey.

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL knows I take an XL in t-shirts and then buys me t-shirts that she knows are too small and says "Well, I thought about getting women's women's XL, but then again you couldn't be that big, so I got a medium. I guess I can return it. Or wear it myself because I am so much smaller."

Omg this is so awful!

That's WAY beyond awful.

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Anonymous wrote:She's the one who had a 50 person grandma shower fot herself when DS was born. I, the baby's child, wasn't invited. Neither was anyone in my family.

She's hoarding the grandma shower stuff in her guest bedroom.

Oh wow.

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Anonymous wrote:Bring us crap like furniture and Knick knacks they no longer want (they are constantly devluttering their condo and cluttering our home), and bringing us their old clothes or clothes they bought st second hand stores. Clothes that are in style for the over 70s set. If we ask them to watch our kids, they will bring takeout for dinner, which they will eat as soon as they get to our house without thinking of what the children will eat. We often pay them for the takeout. They refuse to take off their shoes to go upstairs (our bedrooms have carpet), so they never go upstairs.

I don’t get this. Why aren’t you feeding your kids? Why are you paying for the takeout they paid for before they brought it Over? Do you offer or do they
Yes we feed our own kids. It’s like they do the babysitting because we will pay for their meal.ask?

Yes, we feed our kids. The in laws are basically self absorbed. They are in it for the free meal.

And you’re in it for the free babysitting, sheesh!

A $40 Chinese food dinner for childcare is a freaking bargain.

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Their accents are so grating. “Warsh,” “Warshington,” “Mondee,” “rest-rint.” They are smart people who sound so unintelligent!

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FIL ignores grandson (my child). It’s very irritating and sad at the same time.

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Anonymous wrote:MIL made her grandmother name Momo, so my little baby basically call her mama

Just refer to her as Grandma. Done.

Yup. My MIL gave herself an odd name that none of the grandkids in any of the families use. She even signs all of her cards with it. I have always referred to her as Grandma and that's what the kids use.

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Anonymous wrote:MIL made her grandmother name Momo, so my little baby basically call her mama

Just refer to her as Grandma. Done.

Yup. My MIL gave herself an odd name that none of the grandkids in any of the families use. She even signs all of her cards with it. I have always referred to her as Grandma and that's what the kids use.

You're so mean! Call people what they want to be called. So what if it's weird or unusual. My MIL is from a foreign country so her name is completely foreign to us (me, I should say, since my kids have adapted just fine). Your MIL is so nice not to make a big deal of it, but you should reconsider your approach. One day you may be a grandma and have a name that you wish to be called that is ignored because your DIL doesn't like it for some reason.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIL made her grandmother name Momo, so my little baby basically call her mama

Just refer to her as Grandma. Done.

Yup. My MIL gave herself an odd name that none of the grandkids in any of the families use. She even signs all of her cards with it. I have always referred to her as Grandma and that's what the kids use.

You're so mean! Call people what they want to be called. So what if it's weird or unusual. My MIL is from a foreign country so her name is completely foreign to us (me, I should say, since my kids have adapted just fine). Your MIL is so nice not to make a big deal of it, but you should reconsider your approach. One day you may be a grandma and have a name that you wish to be called that is ignored because your DIL doesn't like it for some reason.

Why? She’s a grandma. Don’t come up with some silly name and expect people to gush. I don’t call my daughter “doogiedoo”. I call her, “my daughter”. That woman is “grandma”.

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Why? She’s a grandma. Don’t come up with some silly name and expect people to gush. I don’t call my daughter “doogiedoo”. I call her, “my daughter”. That woman is “grandma”.

It's not gushing. It's respectful.

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Anonymous wrote:My mother brings her own instant coffee in a little jar, claiming she must have a cup of coffee immediately. DH and I are coffee snobs and have just about every coffee making product available and have a coffee maker that can be preset. Nope. Not good enough.

No, just not fast enough. I've been tempted to bring instant to a friend's house because her fancy-pants coffee maker takes a month and a PhD to produce a single half-cup that's not even very hot.