Mother-in-Law HELL

My fiancé and I are not married yet, but she serves the purpose of a MIL.

When I first met her, back when I was in high school, I thought she a little crazy, but kind of funny – a real 70’s throwback with the Farrah-hair, cowboy boots, and everything. The only thing about her was that she talked a lot, and I mean endlessly (she kept my parents and I for 2 hours one night, waiting for her to leave.)

Her issues with me being in her son’s life began when I helped him to change his savings and income over from his joint account with her to a separate bank, (his decision), so she could stop leeching off him to pay her house and car payments, phone bill, hydro, etc. (He was 18 at the time.) It was then that she started more desperately trying to hang on to him,…

It’s late and I have no one to vent to and so here I am browsing all of these stories for advice, as if I didn’t have enough of my own problems to think about. My MIL has put me through hundreds of these same exact situations! It’s like we’re all going through the same things!! This is absolutely nuts! How on earth is it that there is more than ONE of these woman running loose on this planet terrorizing Happily Ever Afters??? It’s a pandemic…better yet, an alien invasion…actually it’s worse, because the horrible alien is my husbands mother!!! I don’t know how to deal with her behaviour…yes, I have a million things I’d like to say to her, but I’m following the advice of a few mentors telling me to do everything I can to remain the sweet faultless DIL, “don’t give her an actual excuse to hate…

I have been married to my husband for a little over a year now, and I am becoming increasingly frustrated with my MIL. Ever since we were engaged she constantly talked about how she wants grand babies, and how she is going to take care of them…blah blah blah. It seems like every time I see or hear from her (which is at least a few times a week) she says something about grand kids. I have told her numerous times I don’t want to have children from several more years, and she seems to become deaf. She gives me guilt trips about it as well, and recently said something in front of a large group of people about wanting grand kids. Her words were, ” Chop Chop you need to get on it!” She tries to be all cute about it too, and look innocent. I usually just say,…

Where do I begin. When I first met my MIL, I thought she was very friendly and nice. Then she began to really get under my skin when she retold the same stories (always about raising my husband and his brother), over and over and over again – rarely asked any questions about me or my family or tried to get to know me in any meaningful way.

Warning bells first went off for me when my MIL sent my husband a Father’s Day card with “(someday)” written in below Happy Father’s Day – and this was when we lived in a one-bedroom apartment with no where to put a child. Then when she came to visit us in the hospital after the birth of our son, she grabbed my face and said, “thank you.” It took me a while to figure out why this thank you bothered me (and still…

WOW.. I was looking for a sight for good advice on DIL but all I find is MIL…well there are always 2 sides to the story and this is mine!!!
I had a rotten MIL. she was selfish, manipulative and had many more qualities that I wish not to mention. I have 2 sons & swore I ‘d be a good MIL. Surprise, I don’t think it’s possible. I live 3 blocks away from my married son. her mom lives 6 blocks away and guess what they visit her more than they visit me. how come..I don’t get into their business, I am there when they need me, and if I buy something for my son I will do the same for my DIL. I try not to voice my opinion too much, even if I don’t like what they’re doing…in fact there are alot of things I don’t agree with…

My husband and I have been best friends since freshman year of high school, we’re now 24. We didn’t ever get romantic until the past three years. We’ve watched each other go through loves, heartbreaks, and even one engagement on his end. So, you can imagine how much we know about one another and the people in our lives.

My MIL loved me until I started having a romantic serious relationship with her son, now she can’t stand me and is totally fake with me. My husband was dating this one girl for two years and then they were engaged for a month or two. This ex-fiancé never cared for me because she felt threatened by him having a “female” best friend. My MIL was open about how much she disliked this fiancé at the time; she wasn’t fake about liking her like she is with me. He decided that it…

hi, long story short. my in laws are here living with me , and though my husband stands up for me. everything sinister happens ofcourse behind his back. i have fractured my foot and in bed. and mil is having a ball of a day. she practically can do whatever she feels like, lets my lo call her ma, and to which i keep objecting but it seems to be falling on deaf ears. when dh is at home, she tells my lo in her sweet voice that she is not her mother and should be calling her granny instead. these are the same old stories which you would know and you have been writing. but at this point, since i am stuck in bed, and she does all this behind dh’s back, i just dont know how to deal with it any more. oops… did i mention that sob…