When my husband and I got back from our honeymoon, we found out that I was pregnant with our first child. Excited, we called our close friends and family on the phone but decided to wait to tell his parents in person. They are very personable and sociable people, and we hadn’t seen them since the wedding so we thought this would be a good idea.
One day we went over to their house for dinner with presents in hand. Expecting to see souvenirs gifts from our honeymoon, they instead found cute “Grandma” and “Grandpa” keepsake items from Hallmark. My FIL was excited to hear the news. My MIL on the other hand was so upset that we didn’t “tell her first”, that “everyone else in the family knew except for her” and that “nobody” in the family had “told her that we were expecting”.
I strived to brush off her complaining and my FIL simply said that it was a “great idea that we decided to tell them in person rather than over the phone.” My sweet FIL was sitting there in disbelief, excited that he was going to be a grandfather. Staring at the floor, he says “Wow. I’m going to be a grandfather. I can’t believe that you’re going to have a baby.”
My MIL ‘s response: “Well that’s what happens when they f***!”
Geez. Glad you’re excited to hear the news, Grandma. NOT!
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7 Responses to “My Sex Life According to MIL”
Ha! She’s jealous that it happened so quickly, before she got time to treat you like crap for marrying her son. Now she has to move right onto being a nightmare grandma. Good luck with this one. Have your husband talk to her sooner than later and don’t let him get sucked into her “I’m so hurt” vortex.
congratulations! Forget your MIL’s comment – ewwwwww!
I would have looked at my hubby and said “And I am so glad YOU happened when THEY(point to MIL and FIL) F*cked,Honey!!! Isn’t that great?See,we are keeping up a Family Tradition too(Giggle)!”
If you get a comment that offends and you fire one back without missing a beat,you have just hit the nasty old bat with someof her own medicine.
Don’t take any sh*t off of these caustic old bats.They think they can be offensive becasue they are old and get away with it,but le them know you are an Equal Opportunity Offender .
She said this because MILS often hold on to your marriage falling apart
so they can tell their sons “See,I told you about that girl!!!” But,now that you have a child on the way,you will always have ties to her son forever and that makes her feel threatened.
Congrats,Hon,and don’t let this nasty old b*tch ruin your day.
Limit your conversations with her to Hi and Bye.
I seriously would have rounded on her and asked “I beg your pardon?” and I would have informed her that she seriously needs to work on her language before the baby arrives, and that the accepted venacular is “have sex” or “make love”.
She’s just annoyed that she’s not the Queen Bee…you told other people so she doesn’t have the chance now to go around telling people herself…she’s not in control of the situation and people are going to be fussing around you and not her..she’s probably still getting over the wedding!
She probably feels like her entire place in the family is threatened now, you’e not only her son’s wife, but the mother of his child..you are now the woman in your family (my brov calls it the mama bear role).
Congratulations!!!!!!!!! Let her comments float off your shoulders and get stuck into preapring the cave for your cub mama bear!
Lovely! Sounds like my MIL. When we told her we were having a baby the first words out of her mouth were, “It’s all about me!!!” As in… it’s all about her, the grandmother. That’s funny, I thought it was all about the BABY! I’m glad to hear you have a FIL that has his head on straight. Congrats!
Oh that cracked me up! My MIL and FIL are New Yorkers that speak like Andrew Dice Clay!
I feel for you! On the morning of our wedding, my MIL went into my husband’s bedroom, sat down on the bed beside, looked him in the eyes, and (seriously) told him that he WOULD do something to make sure she wouldn’t have grandchildren right away, implying that he didn’t have enough foresight to use contraception. As if it was any of her business!!! BTW, my husband was 31 years old at the time.