Mother-in-Law HELL

We live in a fairly modest house that we haven’t decorated yet because we have both been terribly busy. Now that we have some time off together my fiance suggested that his mom come down and help out. She loves decorating and do it yourself stuff. I thought it would be helpful, we had a lot to do (the entire upstairs) all the painting, trips to the stores and purchasing drawers and night stands. Well, she is here from Saturday through Friday, and all was going well until the day we decided to piece stuff together. I woke up before my fiance because he had a long day at work the day before and asked her if she would like any help putting the new drawers together. She said, right, you can do all the furniture and I’ll do the cleaning. (She wasn’t there for cleaning, she was there to…

Well, I know that this story will be long. I am 29 years old and I started to date my husband when I was 16 and got married at 18. This story is about my uncaring mother-in-law. How she has not contributed to our marriage or our home life and yet has done her best to spread lies and rumors about me to my husband.
In 1997 I found out I was pregnant with my first child, after two years of dating we both decided to take the next step and to form a family and get married. My mother disagreed with our relationship from the beginning, so of course she did not want me to get married, and she wanted me to stay home. I believe that she was a difficult time letting me go. I was the first of her children that wanted to fly the coop. My husband…

My mother-in-law is coming from out of state with her husband and they are staying for 25 days! That is almost a month!!! How do I deal??? Please help!

My husband’s mother has forever babied my husband. When I first met him and he was living in his sister’s house, I thought it was a little weird, but I knew he was close to his family. His mother also lived there. By the time that we were married, I had too late found out what was going on behind the scenes with their mother-son relationship. She was still making him breakfast and doing his laundry, even when I started living there. Last Thanksgiving we went to my parents for dinner, but she still saved him a meal that could have lasted for days! I called her and asked her if she thought that he didn’t have a good enough Thanksgiving dinner. She still makes him lunch all the time. I don’t know what to do. Just tonight also, I found out that she calls my husband two to three…

wow, some of the stories on here make me shudder. i guess i can’t complain THAT much, but then again, i’m new at this….recently was at my boyfriends’ parents’ place, and just got some really weird vibes from her. my boyfriend and i have been together for a little over a year, he just got a job where i live and will be officially moving in soon, he’s been living with his parents. i had his parents over for dinner recently and have been putting forth effort to get to know them. when we came over to his house recently, there was the tangible tension in the air of a mother who is projecting her own issues about letting her youngest son go. i don’t want to be too reactive and exacerbate anything, but i’m the type who finds it VERY hard not to speak my mind. i have a…

I hate when people do things just to spite you. Okay I was in a boating accident a few years ago and I don’t want my 11month old to be in the water of any sort without me. I told this to my parents who said okay we respect that we won’t take her swimming without you there. Well we told the same thing to my MIL and she didn’t react the same we were shocked we argued with her and my Sister in-law for 30 on why I was afraid of it and everything and I knew that since she didn’t like me that she was going to do it anyway. Well one day we went out for a couple of hours just my husband and myself .When we called to see how our daughter was doing they said fine she just got out of the pool and is…

Hi All,

I would really welcome your opinion on this. I do feel it may be related to the topic of this site but perhaps not in an obvious way. My boyfriend of 18 months ended our relationship a few months ago. We were very close and it came totally out of the blue. He gave no explanation except that he thought I was wonderful and had no desire to settle down with me. I had not been pushing for commitment but I would have been very happy to when the time was right. He is approaching 40 and has never been married or lived with a girlfriend.

During the relationship he was very reluctant for me to meet his parents although they live very close. I did meet them twice. On both ocassions I felt that his mother was a little frosty to me and I did not feel that she…