Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think my MIL is intuitive (and also kind of nutty). Several years when DH had an affair and we were fighting in the aftermath, we strategized how to deal with her pre-planned visit by saying we were fighting over money or something. She basically immediately walked in our house and announced that we weren't allowed to get a divorce, which was ironic coming from a twice-divorced person. But as far as I know neither of us had given anything away about what was going on. But then, my MIL is also supposedly visited by talking angels and demons, so half the stuff she says is just plain crazy.

Do you have an Alexa device or anything like that in teen's room? Could someone have logged into the account on a device at MIL's so she can access it?

This has some good tips. An actual bug would need a power source and internet. Seems unlikely even a motivated elderly eavesdropper would be able to hide that somewhere you wouldn't notice. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-sweep-for-bugs/

And you think that your MIL is the problem here? 🤔

Way to get a burn in on someone sharing the details of their life to help a stranger. Must have made your day!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think my MIL is intuitive (and also kind of nutty). Several years when DH had an affair and we were fighting in the aftermath, we strategized how to deal with her pre-planned visit by saying we were fighting over money or something. She basically immediately walked in our house and announced that we weren't allowed to get a divorce, which was ironic coming from a twice-divorced person. But as far as I know neither of us had given anything away about what was going on. But then, my MIL is also supposedly visited by talking angels and demons, so half the stuff she says is just plain crazy.

Do you have an Alexa device or anything like that in teen's room? Could someone have logged into the account on a device at MIL's so she can access it?

This has some good tips. An actual bug would need a power source and internet. Seems unlikely even a motivated elderly eavesdropper would be able to hide that somewhere you wouldn't notice. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-sweep-for-bugs/

And you think that your MIL is the problem here? 🤔

NP here. Most people have affairs. If it's not you, than statistically it's your partner. Numbers don't lie. Cute you think you're immune.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve always wondered but thought myself insane for thinking my MIL was somehow listening in to DD and my household conversations. I’ve never mentioned it to anyone and instead made it this quite game I played with myself because, it’s insane, right?

But my tween DD came up to me today and out of nowhere said mom, I think grandma is secretly listening to our conversations. I guess she had her own experience! We were in her room and she randomly mentioned something off the wall and obscure to me. When she later visited her grandma, grandma mentioned the random and obscure thing. (Along the lines of ‘I just saw a TikTok of black Nike socks with a green Swoosh. I’d like those.’) She said she had noticed before that her grandma always seems to know things we discuss, almost like she was listening.

I don’t know how to respond but now I’m sort of freaking out. Could she have bugged something? Is there an app she could have installed on her iPad? I sound totally insane but this doesn’t make sense otherwise, does it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think my MIL is intuitive (and also kind of nutty). Several years when DH had an affair and we were fighting in the aftermath, we strategized how to deal with her pre-planned visit by saying we were fighting over money or something. She basically immediately walked in our house and announced that we weren't allowed to get a divorce, which was ironic coming from a twice-divorced person. But as far as I know neither of us had given anything away about what was going on. But then, my MIL is also supposedly visited by talking angels and demons, so half the stuff she says is just plain crazy.

Do you have an Alexa device or anything like that in teen's room? Could someone have logged into the account on a device at MIL's so she can access it?

This has some good tips. An actual bug would need a power source and internet. Seems unlikely even a motivated elderly eavesdropper would be able to hide that somewhere you wouldn't notice. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-sweep-for-bugs/

And you think that your MIL is the problem here? 🤔

Anonymous wrote:Does she live with you and connect her phone / tablet to your wife or do you connect to her wife when you visit?

My SIL has anew baby and my other SIL is a fan of a very specific type of boot camp workout / nutrition. When I shared a beach house with them last summer all of my Facebook, Google and YouTube ads changed because we were all sharing the same Wi-Fi.
My husband has also had the experience of getting ads for things I am buying him for his birthday because I’ve been searching it on the internet of our shared WiFi.

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhhh, didn't you all see that Brady Bunch episode where Peter was listening in and recording conversations? To solve the problem, you need to start fake-planning a surprise party for your MIL, so she'll show up in nice clothes at a non-party and be humiliated.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think my MIL is intuitive (and also kind of nutty). Several years when DH had an affair and we were fighting in the aftermath, we strategized how to deal with her pre-planned visit by saying we were fighting over money or something. She basically immediately walked in our house and announced that we weren't allowed to get a divorce, which was ironic coming from a twice-divorced person. But as far as I know neither of us had given anything away about what was going on. But then, my MIL is also supposedly visited by talking angels and demons, so half the stuff she says is just plain crazy.

Do you have an Alexa device or anything like that in teen's room? Could someone have logged into the account on a device at MIL's so she can access it?

This has some good tips. An actual bug would need a power source and internet. Seems unlikely even a motivated elderly eavesdropper would be able to hide that somewhere you wouldn't notice. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-sweep-for-bugs/

And you think that your MIL is the problem here? 🤔

Anonymous wrote:I think my MIL is intuitive (and also kind of nutty). Several years when DH had an affair and we were fighting in the aftermath, we strategized how to deal with her pre-planned visit by saying we were fighting over money or something. She basically immediately walked in our house and announced that we weren't allowed to get a divorce, which was ironic coming from a twice-divorced person. But as far as I know neither of us had given anything away about what was going on. But then, my MIL is also supposedly visited by talking angels and demons, so half the stuff she says is just plain crazy.

Do you have an Alexa device or anything like that in teen's room? Could someone have logged into the account on a device at MIL's so she can access it?

This has some good tips. An actual bug would need a power source and internet. Seems unlikely even a motivated elderly eavesdropper would be able to hide that somewhere you wouldn't notice. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-sweep-for-bugs/