I can’t deal with my MIL anymore! She’s so freaking insane! She won’t leave us alone! The looney toon isn’t even allowed to be alone, or around, my 3 month old son! After a zillion times of her “promising change” and not doing it, I give up! I refuse to have anything to do with her, and I refuse to let her be a part of my life or my son’s. She told me when I was pregnant that my Mom had no right to be in the delivery room if she couldn’t be, and that my baby was as much her’s as mine. She also constantly referred to him as “her baby.” She uses every excuse she can think of to try and come over or try and get us to go there, only as her excuse to see him, and when we say no, it’s constant guilt trips and cry fits and then badmouthing me! Now she’s having a surgery (for a freaking hernia) and keeps saying she needs to see my baby before the surgery b/c it’s such a major, life threatening surgery…are you freaking kidding me! It’s a freaking hernia! She isn’t even allowed to see her other Grandson b/c of all the crap she’s pulled! She manipulates her Husband and makes it out that she’s always the victim even though she’s the reason none of the family has anything to do with her! She tried to give a 4 week old Baby HONEY!!!!! She also told my friend the first time she ever met her at my Baby shower, that she would feed her (my friend’s daughter) b/c she said my friend didn’t know how! Then proceeded to lecture her about what Formula she was using! I finally had to intervene and let someone else hold my friend’s daughter to keep her away from the poor little girl! My Husband finally sees the true person she is and wants to be left alone by her, but she won’t! She won’t leave us alone! I actually had another lock put on my door, just in case!!! She will NEVER be allowed to be left alone or anywhere near my baby!
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5 Responses to “She’s insane!”
i understand completely. i would NEVER leave my mil alone with mine either, and she’s 3 now. I hate her, she’s such a bitch. i just stay away from her and she stays away from me and my daughter. apparantly she likes it that way because she don’t ever come around to see her. oh by the way, she lives next door. good luck!
It is so frustrating when people do not respect your parenting choices. I can relate to your story. My ML gave my 3 week old baby a piece of fruit. I thought I was going to DIE! I was saying, NO NO NO and she just stuck it right in babies mouth. I still let ML have contact but I’m there all the time just in case she wants to stick something else in babies mouth that is inappropriate. Your ML sounds like she has some serious personality disorder or a mental illness. I don’t mean to be cruel but I would keep my child from her as well. Unfortunately many people believe that babies and children are there for their own gratification… forgetting the reality that we adults are supposed to be there for the baby and fulfill their needs. Why is this so lost on so many people? It is an illness I think. Well, good luck to you and I wish you all the best with this situation. Stay strong.
I have very similar MIL problems and agree completly with Bridey. My MIL attemped to feed my then six month old a pickle (like a whole pickle!). Her most recent near-tradedy involving my son happened when she was watching him at our house while I did some things out in the yard. She left her other grandchild (my nephew) who is three in charge of my child who is one while she proceeded to track my down outside and ask me some stupid questions about something completly unimportant! I really think it is some sort of mental illness. At least your husband admits that his mom is a little whacky, I’m still working on mine.
I’m pretty sure my MIL gave my son rice cereal at 3 months when watching him…the poop doesn’t lie. She won’t answer my or Dh’s calls when we let her watch him, just as a screw you to us for checking in. She bought his baptism suit, his 1st Halloween costume. She forced herself into appointments at the pediatrician. When I was pregnant, she tried to talk me into an elective c-section, just because that’s what she had 100 years ago with my DH. She makes snide comments about how lucky I am to be able to stay home with DS, but she had the same opportunity. She chose to work so she would have more money to spend on herself. When she was young, she slept with married men to get ahead in business, but we are supposed to feel sorry for her because her husband left her for another woman. She wouldn’t quit talking about how I should breastfeed, and of course I do….now she thinks nursing until a year old is weird. Every single time she watched DS, she tried to say he was hungry, even if I fed him 5 minutes earlier. She refused to try Baby Orajel on him last time when he was teething, saying that he was hungry. We had to leave in the middle of dinner. She let herself into the delivery room when I was having DS, and she insults my mother all of the time. She makes a point of giving gifts to my DH and DS and giving me nothing. She has the nerve to call me and tell me she really misses my DS and can’t wait to see HIM and wonders when I’ll deliver him to her again. Not us, HIM. Suffice to say, she will never babysit again. A person has to be STUPID to be this mean to their DIL, the one who controls the grandchildren. I would be a bad mother to leave DS alone with her. She’s way too dumb.
OMG I feel for you. My Husband must have been a saint in another life because my mother is his MIL from hell. My mother is Obsessed with our daughter. She popped up at my house with out notice, woke me up at 3 A.M. over the baby monitor after waking up my baby so she could play with her. AT 3 A.M. !!!!!!!! Needless to say she can no longer see my child. So good job for you. You are a mother first a wife second and a person third. Protect your baby.