Mother-in-Law HELL

Hi ladies,

It’s Patricia. Hope you all are doing well. WCBS Channel 2, a CBS channel out of New York has asked me to do an interview for their segment about Mothers-in-law. They would like for me to bring one of the sisters along! You can be a future DIL, Ex-DIL who has children, or a current DIL. They will ask you about the website and how having a community of women supporting you has helped you deal with the problems.  They will also ask about your mother-in-law situation. If you do not want be seen on TV, they can block out your face and change your voice.  We can also shoot the segment at your home or at the station.

Please send an email to Motherinlawhell@yahoo.com. You should live in the NY/Tri-state area. We will need you in Manhattan to shoot the segment on the morning of November 3rd.

Ok, SIL and I historically have had an ok relationship. We are different personalities, no doubt and there is and unspoken jealousy between us.
She has had a silver spoon life up until the past few years. Never wanted for a thing, blessed childhood, college from parents, great career, house given to her by parents. She married a looser who had several affairs- even to the point of having the other woman live in the house!! At his request, She gave up her career, invested $$ into business w. the husband and mistress, moved away with him and the Mistress, and the new baby daughter (she was told by several people about the affair but refused to believe). Of course within a year the bottom dropped out for her, and she came back w. daughter and was taken in by my MIL. Couldn’t even afford to live in her own home…

I have posted twice on this site and just want to say “Thank You” so very much to everyone that posted and gave advice. Just recently my MIL has decided she is “DONE” with us. My husband confronted her once more about the way we are treated and she couldn’t’ handle it. She started screaming at the top of her lungs and behaving like a child. After about a half hour of my FIL enabling her and her trying to make my hubby feel guilty she yelled, “I’m Done” and hung up the phone. She wouldn’t let my husband speak, which he was doing very calmly. He even said, “Mom, I love you very much, but…..” He tried everything he could to talk to her but she just wouldn’t listen and wouldn’t stop screaming.
His Aunt sent an email saying all this crap about how she knows that his mom can…

Oh gosh, I don’t know where to begin. My mother in law is a hoarder and very bad with money. So bad, that when my fiance’s dad passed away in 2006, he left everything to him to take care of his mom (including a mortgage and a dated house that seems to devalue by the minute). My MIL thinks it is her son’s duty to take care of her even though she never took care of him growing up. He had to take her to file for bankruptcy last year due to 80,000 in cc debt! She bought two houses overseas that were swindled! She keeps crashing her car and my fiance is covering her car insurance and damages! And her dog is always suffering from some skin, ear, body ailment and my fiance covers all the vet bills! She still has no job and feels part-time work in retail,…

My husband and I have been married almost 4 years now. My MIL started the day before our wedding when she proceeded to support her daughter announcing her engagement at the wedding! Well since then it’s just gotten worse and worse. She has begun attacking me, calling me names (like white trash), attacking MY mother, making up lies and telling everyone she knows so they will think badly of me also. My husband and his mom don’t have a great relationship since she started this 4 years ago. I have confronted her a number of times and just recently wrote her a letter explaining that I would like her to have a relationship with our children, but if she proceeds to attack me, that can’t happen. I refuse to let a woman like that be around my children. Well this letter I sent her, she read everything in a negative…

I do love my MIL, but she drives me crazy. What makes it even worse is that my husband supposedly has no idea where I’m coming from.

While my MIL is only in her 50’s, she acts like she is from the 1950’s. She is from the era when a woman is supposed to support her husband’s career dreams while the woman cleans the house and maybe works a menial job (as long as it doesn’t interfere with her housework!) There has always been a little bit of a control issue on her part (insisting that she be the one that makes my husband’s bday cake, etc.) but there’s a few new issues that are driving me nuts.

My husband and I are both around 30. He graduated college several years ago, while I just recently graduated because I had to support myself through college and couldn’t afford it until recently. However,…

My sister is insane. She thinks of her two dogs as her children. She sleeps with them, takes them everywhere and takes them to the doggie spa every week. For the past three years, she has been using my mother as a babysitting service. In fact, my mother takes the dogs at least four times a week. Now, I like pets just like anyone else but I am not about to look at them as my own flesh and blood.

Since my son has been born, my sister has become more and more jealous of him. She brings the dogs over my mom’s house when I am visiting and yells at my mom if she gives “too much attention” to my son. She is now threatening to not come over for Christmas if the dogs can’t be present because “they are apart of the family too.” In the last argument, she…