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| Mine wins in the number of cats (I think there were 17 indoor and ... several dozen outdoor), but aside from that, I have nothing. She was a lovely lady. |
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Oh, her evil spawn or her twin is the poster who told the OP who needed sympathy that she was overreacting about her in-laws giving her infant dd a sharp, small object the baby could choke on. Or is the evil PP from that thread this MIL?? |
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Nice to hear I'm not alone! "Perfect" families need not chime in! MIL insists I am everything negative, even though she doesn't know me from Adam. She only calls (often) when she wants something. DH goes RUNNING, and not fast enough for his (or her) liking. Can you say crazy relationship? She used to come over and hiss to me (I couldn't make this up): "I'm hear to see the kid, not you." Well, by all means, it's not like I'm in the middle of BF or something, witch! Who says my child has to eat? WTF? She goes on and on and on infinitum about one particular grandkid. The favoritism is obvious, hurtful and unbearable. She lives 6 or 7 minutes away, and has never once been happy for us or all that DH has done for the family. But yet, she is happiest when slighting me. WHO does she think pursuades DH to do all those nice things for his family she doesn't appreciate? Aren't I the fool!?!?! Someone slap me. She refuses to come over and spend time with the kids; but fully expects DH to RUN to her (or a family members) house when she needs something. She counts our money (inaccurately) and it never once occured to her to say how proud she is of DH (who is amazing, BTW). I swear I can hear her saying SHE does this (negative) and SHE says this (negative).....I need to let it go and realize that she will never be nice or unselfish or thoughtful or grateful or well, anything decent! I have to remember that she's a miserable, lonely old bat and her bridge club probably feels the same way about her. I have to remember that I won't let myself ever become HER. |
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There are some good ones here.
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/8990.page |
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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. |
Anonymous
| OP here, these stories are all making me feel better and realize I am not the only one with a crazy wench in my life. My monster will be here in 12 hrs and I couldn't be dreading it more. Another favorite moment of mine was when she had wanted to have 10 children. Her daughter responded "You should have mom, you are the best mom ever" I was drinking a glass of wine, which I nearly choked and spit in her face. |
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LOL!!! 
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First time I visited MIL, I was welcomed into her home by her and her 5 dogs, 60 birds (!!!) and a flying squirrel. The flying squirrel escaped and we had to spend an hour looking for it because MIL was distraught because it had babies it needed to tend to. We went out the next day and she carried her parrot on her shoulder (yes, like a pirate).
And then told me the story of the time she beat down her cleaning person, ripped off her clothes and kicked her out of the house, naked, because she had washed FIL's clothes and MIL told her not to. Yikes! |
Anonymous
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! |
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When DS was born, I asked my husband not to have his goofy mother down to visit until after I went back to work - she is the opposite of helpful when she's here, and her neediness knows no bounds. She exhausts me.
So he told me one day he asked her if she could just watch the baby for a few minutes so he could take a shower. As soon as he emerged from the bathroom she said the baby had pooped and needed to be changed. Why had she not changed him? Because she "couldn't find the diapers." The Pampers, that were stacked right there on the changing table. My husband pointed them out to her and she said, "Oooohhhh, those are the diapers?" Come on. I was almost happier when she just announced this time around that she doesn't change diapers. She was no more helpful, this time we just expected less. |
Anonymous
Not saying that was the case but maybe she didn't know disposables? I know that the first time I had to change a disposable diaper I had no idea how to do it - was used to old fashioned cloth.... just saying. |
zumbamama
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I like my MIL, but my sister's MIL thinks I'm the anti-Christ because she believes dancing is a sin.
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Stimulates the flesh of the soul or something along those lines? |
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Yes, I guess I'm under the devil's influence....haha! Can you imagine her horror when people started dancing at the wedding reception and they called me up to give a salsa lesson?! She had to leave the room. These days her MIL sends her religious literature every month and then quizzes her on it. MIL guilt trips her if she didn't have time tor read all the material. And she thinks my sister isn't a real Christian because she is Catholic! She keeps trying to convert her into being Baptist. |
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I'm OP of the thread asking for Xanax with the MIL who replaced my coffee maker, my bark mulch, and added white rock trim around my house AND asked DH for reimbursement with her receipts...
As if that's not enough to qualify her as wacky, I can also add selfish and callous: she has a clear favorite child, and it's not DH. Her daughter's boys can do no wrong, MIL and FIL invite them to spend 2 weeks in the summer with them, but not the other 4 grandkids. When daughter moved across country a few years ago, IL's followed her and moved to the same city. (which is a just fate for SIL!) IL's attend the kids' games, they babysit for them, etc. When our son was born (their last grandkid possible) DH had to twist their arm to come and ended up BUYING them tickets to fly out here. She also is one of those exhausting needy people who don't help postpartum moms, but end up requiring help of their own. She ignores my son (her step-grand) and (used to) send him only a card for his birthday when she (used to) send "her" grandkids gifts and cards. When I went apeshit on that favoritism and exclusion, she switched to sending "her" grandkids a photocopied Wendy's Frosty coupon in their birthday card, and my son nothing in his. Again, went apeshit - - STILL doing it, MIL!! Now, she doesn't send anyone in my house anything. It's her bday while she's visiting. I'm tempted to give her a photocopied coupon for a Wendy's Frosty. |