Mother-in-Law HELL

Let me start by saying, I mostly love my MIL. She raised a beautiful person who is my husband. She is smart, resourceful, caring and fun. In short, there are many reasons why I truly respect her. She can be a bit pushy sometimes when it comes to asking very personal and intimate questions, ranging from when I plan to have kids to what my next career moves are. I don’t always feel comfortable discussing these themes with her. I feel like it’s too much too soon. I’m the type of person that needs to ease into that kind of relationship. My husband left me alone with her once and she interrogated me. I ended up feeling violated. When my husband approached her on how I felt, she was offended and took it very personally. She feels rejected by me. This comes up whenever there is a family function. She…

Hi All! I am new here and I am so glad I found this website. I have had problems with my MIL since I have been married (11 yrs.).

So, my in-laws just recently moved about a mile away from us. Having them so close has not been the greatest thing for us. My children are close to my MIL and I don’t mind that at all. However, I feel as though she is trying to be their mother in some ways. Ex. She took out my daughter (who just turned 7) and bought her bra’s. WHAT?? My daughter is stick thin and in no way needs them. Besides I feel as though that’s my job not hers. Oh she just took my daughter and didn’t bother to call me or anything. I went to pick up my daughter and she had a bra on. I was so not ready for…

Since Day 1 of my marriage my mother in law has put a wedge between my husband and I. She thinks my husband is her husband and has referred to herself as his “better half”. When my husband and I were dating she used to complain about him constantly about how he never spent time with her so to fill the void I would take her out all the time and spend so much time with her. She vowed to spite him by moving out of state to “show him”. When we got married she didn’t speak to me at the wedding and it was all downhill from there. There are so many incidences with her so I will try to make this as concise as possible. Everytime she and I would disagree my husband would always side with her and one time after moving several hours away and moved…

My MIL, whom I love deeply as over-stepped her boundaries to the tenth power, if that’s possible. Let me give you some insight on my story.

My husband and I have two daughters, one recently turned 18 and the other is 10. My 18 yr old moved out about a year ago and is living with her stupid boyfriend and his totally irresponsible parents. That’s a story for another web site. In my opinion, my daughter should face all the hardships of becoming an adult since she has decided to do things “on her own”. In other words, finish school ( she was home schooled and needs to take her GED), get a job, save some money for a car, etc.etc. Yes, she moved out without any of these important things. Great, just great. Sarcasm intended.

To make a long story short, MIL wants to have the 10 yr. old over to…

For six wonderful years MIL and FIL has been out of our lives and for very good reasons: )
… until FMIL discovered facebook. Out of the blue one day MIL had 50 friends in common with DH (20 of them family). Many of them are my husbands childhood friends and probably don’t even really know her. She has been using SIL & BIL (and probably some of the others) to get updates on our lives, pictures etc. in order to pretend that every thing between us is alright. DH unfriended these 50 friends to stop the stalking. Now BIL asks DH why he’s unfriended him. (He never calls or visits anyway, so why does he bother???) What is an appropriate answer from DH?

: ( MIL is still a friend of our DD on FB, tries to arrange meeting her, to bad mouth me and poison her against me. Every day…

Is it normal behavior for a MIL to try and dump all kinds of junk on their son and his wife? I have been putting up with my MIL buying/giving/dumping all sorts of items, including junk on my husband and I for the past seven years. I always found it annoying, my husband coming home with 10 new toys for our daughter, every single time he went to visit his family-no kidding, but I just always brushed it off as not a big deal, just annoying.

Just last year, I got into an argument with her over her behavior and it was then that I decided I was going to put a stop to anything I didn’t like or feel comfortable with. I decided then that I would no longer allow her to dump crap on us. I mean, the woman has infiltrated our lives with her crap. Everywhere I look,…