Mother-in-Law HELL

I was a newly divorced mother of two when I met my DH. His mother seemed wonderful. We were very close, talking about everything. She had problems with her existing daughter-in-law and I was helping her through them. She also has major financial problems so I lent her 22,000 dollars to help her out. Then I married her son. When I married her son I quit my job and decided to go back to school and live off of my savings which was well over 100,000 dollars. My DH makes a very modest salary so we were living primarily off of my savings. She would hint that she needed more money and I could’nt help because we had to use my savings to live off of and of course I have 2 children to support. All of a sudden when the money started running out she did’nt want to know…

First of all, I am so glad to find this site. Every time I complain about my MIL to my friends or coworkers my stories are too crazy for them to believe. If I don’t watch out I’ll end up writing a novel on here so I am going to try and keep it short and to the point:
-My evil MIL started off as an evil mother. My husband says all growing up she was a single mom with a master’s degree but refused to work so her 2 boys lived in poverty, so poor that most of the time they did not have food to eat. Instead of working she went out and tried to be a famous singer, is still convinced she is going to be a rich and famous singer someday even though she is not talented or attractive or even tolerable as a human being, and…

I’ve been married 4 years this July. My HB is classically non-confrontational (in public and around others) and very controlling in private. We have our issues that we deal with as readily as we can, raising toddler twins and working and going to college. We are planning to move to live with my family out of state, which has always been supportive of our marriage and is very open – I grew up communicating, good or bad, fighting and making up and was taught how to show a lot of love. My HB’s family is quiet. In the last 5 years, the only ‘deep’ conversation my HB has had with his family was 3 months after our children were born when he went skiing with his father, when his father spoke to him that “your mother and I are worried she is trying to drag you back to (out of…

I honestly can not say if my fiances mother has never liked me or not. It seems to have started after we got engaged, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t around before then, maybe she just never voiced it because she assumed I was just a placeholder, so to speak.

I am completely fed up at this point with my future MIL. I don’t know what else to do and while my fiance asks me “tell me what else I can do” I have no idea. She is definately one of those that can’t handle “losing” her baby, and is making sure we know how “hard” this is for her.

I just realized if I try to explain everything that we have been through lately I would go over the text limit, so I will try to shortn it up. Nothing we have decided has been good enough for her. Every decision…

A couple of months ago my mother in law and father in law separated and she had no where to live- my mom took her in and shortly after helping her she started calling my moms boyfriend. My mom heard of it and broke off her engagement, now my mother in law is driving 7 1/2 hours to go see him. She is lying to my husband and me about what she is doing and where she is leaving my brother in law (6yrs old) and sister in law (17yrs old) thinking I don’t know. My sister in law now has no rules in the home as long as she doesn’t tell my hubby about what she is doing. I’m so mad that she could do this to my mom after she tried to help her she even had the nerve to say she was the one to help my…

Hi There….

Well, I have been married for three years and have been dealing with this witch for 7 years.

Without going into too much detail… our marrige is on the verge of breakup. We have an appointment with a Marriage counsellor next week and we are barely speaking.

She is everything the proverbial ‘Mother In-Law’ has been described as. Maniuplative x 100… Controlling…possessive…you name it. I use to blame her but now I think my husband has a part in this as well. He is at her beck and call and myself and our son feel really left out.

How can I make him understand? Anything I say is always misconstrude and starts world war three…. I really don’t see this ever getting better.

HELP!

The hag is so manipulative and my kids love her. I can’t stand her!! It is imposible to set boundaries with her because she tries to create trouble for me. Once I asked her to please not smoke around my 6 month old son she created more trouble for me that I could stand. A few days later she invited my husband and I to celebrate my FIL b day and she sat us in the smoking section and her daughter, SIL and grandpa (FIL) lit up their cigarretes at the same time in my face . She constantly tries to manipulate my husband and let’s him know what a bad mother I am, and that I am a bad cook. I am mad at my husband because he says he believes her and it’s totally unsupportive about the whole situation. I signed us my for marriage couseling. My kids…