I have the best MIL from hell story ever!!!!

i have been with my husband for almost twenty years. Well when I was pregnant with our youngest daughter I had Toxemia and was supposed to be bed ridden. AT this time my husband was unable to work so we had to move in with the MIL. We were not allowed to sleep in her house. she made us sleep in her camper. nind you now I was 6 months pregnant and had to go potty quite regularly but had to go in her house to do so. Well getting back to the story. I went to the dr for a check up and my blood pressure was sky high and he insisted i stay in bed. I had to get a dr’s excuse from him stating this so she would believe me. Well and day or two later i heard her talking to my husband about her hating that he had to do everything (like laundry, cleaning her house and cooking) because I wasnt able too. Well I got really upset and went inside her house and started cleaning. before Iwas done cleaning the kitchen I was seeing star burst in front of my eyes and getting dizzy. I told my husband and he took my to the ER and my blood pressure was 210/170, so they put me in the hospital. I was there for one month laying flat on my back resenting my MIL the whole time. To this day I still get mad when i think about it. and this is just the beginnig of my dreadful story of her!!

This post was submitted by Jackie.

We call her the ticking time bomb….TTB for short.

I’ve known my mother-in-law longer than I’ve known my husband. So I don’t have any excuses to stepping into his crazy family.

All of our 15 year marriage we have had issues with her. Drama, lots and lots of drama. She’s sick and dying, she needs money, everyone mistreats here, my FIL ruined her life. My SIL ruined her life…on and on it goes.

This post was submitted by justplaindone.

We blew it!!!

Well i married my high school sweetheart and we have four children together. When i got pregnant for the third time we found out we were having twins. So we were excited to tell my mother in law and her reaction was… Now you two have really blown it!!! and said that we screwed up!

This post was submitted by delma.

I could write a highly-rated soap opera!

I OFTEN wonder why there are sooooo many problems btwn DIL and MIL (and SIL a close 2nd). There are many books written about it and tons on info on the web about it… wish i knew the “dynamics” involved here, maybe it would give us all a lil insight and help us. I have TONS of stories, here are the TOP ones!

This post was submitted by Deborah.

my mother in law rant

my mother in law has not liked me from the very beginning. in the first year of my relationship with my husband, she tried to hook him up with another woman. she is jewish and i am british, she would always make comments about how cold the british are and how they have done so much evil. then when my dad was sick with cancer, instead of having sympathy for me, she took the opportunity to really be mean. she bought some magazines for my dad to read and instead of handing them to me just threw them at me and walked away. i am an artist and when i sold my first work, she said that the only reason i sold it was because it was a man who found me attractive. she rolls her eyes at me constantly and has bad mouthed me to neighbors. now they act funny toward me.
when my husband had the flu, she accused me that i was wearing him out to exhaustion. i wanted to take his temperature and she yelled you can’t take his temperature. when i have been sick, she will say that is nothing and minimize it. the times i have been stupid enough to engage in conversations, she is either argumentative or plays ind games. she will pretend to not know what i am talking about and she is not any kind of support at all.
i have learned to be careful of what i say and spend as little time around her as possible.
i am a peaceful person that works hard and i believe that if someone is toxic or has issues i should stay far away. anger is a waste of time.

This post was submitted by ruth.

All Hail The QUEEN BEE!

This woman is the most manipulative person imaginable. She believes she has the wisdom of the ages when she is as shallow as a puddle. Heaven forbid that you fail to sit at her feet and absorb her wisdom.

She dangles money, but we don’t take the bait like the others have. You can bet that it comes with strings attached. She wants to be able to control our lives at her whim, insert herself where she does not belong.

This post was submitted by Seeing_Thru_Her.

Is she not the worst?

This post was submitted by kismet1974.

Mother in law from hell

So, here is my mother in law story. My husband (who’s the only boy in his family) and I got married and I actually got along with my mother in law at first. Then we became pregnant with my son. While I was preggars we went to visit my MIL. We were sitting at the table and I stretched my leg out under the table and accidentally pushed her dog who was sleeping under the table with my foot. She replied, “Don’t kick my dog bitch!” To my amazement, my husband said and did nothing. A little time went on and my MIL decided to pay me a visit. She came into the house and preceded to tell me how unclean my house was and I should hire a maid. Later I had sent flowers to her for a mother’s day holiday for my husband. She then preceded to tell me they stunk! Yikes I can’t do anything right! Seems like I’m trying really hard, but am getting no where fast. Of course, I love my husband to death and would never let her get in between us. So I live in my own personal mother-in-law hell.

This post was submitted by Karen.

Going Crazeeeeee

OK, I have to relieve some STRESS! This posting is going to be EXTREMELY LONG (longer than any I have read on these sites so far!) and I thank all of you who choose to take the time to read it threw. I need some serious advice to guide me here. I am completely willing to take blame, understand when I have been at fault if someone helps me to see it etc., but in my situation, I honestly don’t think it is me! I have been reading posts from many different sites about horrible MIL’s, and the more I read, the more I believe that I am not imaging things and it is NOT my fault! Anyhow, after saying that, I will take a deep breath and begin hammering out my story in the hopes that someone will either validate my feelings or say, “hey, you are an idiot!” At times it will seem that my posting should not be on this site at all, but rather a site for people with “other” serious issues!, trust me, the only reason I am posting this is because of the MIL issues, I just have to give you a thorough background first!

This post was submitted by tryingtosmile.

12 Years and counting

Well my “relationship” with my monster in law started 12 years ago when I met my future husband. From day one she hated me (and that is not a fish tale!). She told my husband that he “could do better”. As the years went by she found ways to dig at me and try and make me feel uncomfortable. When I was going through Weight Watchers and I was down 30 pounds I was so happy and she looked at me and said with an eye brow raised “Thirty pounds, really?” I wanted to throttle her! Then when we told his family that we were engaged she put her hands on her hips, tilted her head and said “Your really going to go through with this?” At our wedding for the mother and son dance she held onto his neck for dear life and was crying so hard she was sobbing and heaving!! Another year went by of the same old same old and my husband and I found out that we were going to have a baby, my family was happy but his father said “Shit happens” and his mother said “Oh thats nice.” When we were pregnant with our second child she said “You know they do make birth control!” And with our third child her response was “Om my god guys,are you ever going to stop!” So after the loss of my last two children she was just as cold and heartless as before. Almost a year went by and we didn’t say more then 10 words to each other, we avoided eachother like the plague, then one day she gave me a necklace for my birthday with my son and daughter that had passed away engraved onto it. It was beautiful but she put it on me and looked at me with her usual degrading facial expression and said “You will wear that always and never take it off.” OH REALLY! I like necklaces but I don’t wear them hardly ever so I was planning on wearing it on special occasions. When I saw her a couple of times after that she ignored me if I wasn’t wearing it, or if I was talking to someone else she would walk over, butt into our conversation and ask “So your not wearing the necklace I bought you for your birthday.” and then she would turn to whomever I was speaking with and say “I bought her a necklace with her children engraved into it and she never wears it.” Ok so by this time I am ready to snap and a few weeks ago at my brother in laws wedding she didn’t look at me once even though I sat right behind her. We were at the reception a total of 6 hours and I didn’t see her once, but as my husband, son and I were leaving I was hugging the relatives from out of state and she pushed my husbands aunt out of the way to hug me and kiss me on the cheek (oh yeah and she said “I bought her this necklace for her birthday.”) and said “I love you.” to me!!!! I didn’t return the hug but I did comment back and with the aunt in shock I said “Oh you do, really?” And with that simple to the point question she hasn’t spoken to me since nor has she tried to pull information out of my husband regarding myself.

This post was submitted by Brenda Leonard.

Mother-in-law and Sister-in-law are psycho

I have married a man that is extremely sweet and honest. He is genuinely a good person. Yet my fear is that the apple does not fall far from the tree. Both his mother and sister live together and they pop pills like eating candy. They both are terribly afraid of other people. They separate themselves from the entire world because they feel that everyone is out to get them. Once they were angry with me because they thought I was thinking one thing or another. They were too psycho to ask me what I was thinking. They live their lives discussing their large amount of depression and anger towards the world and life itself. Every week they are at the emergency room. I guess that allows them to get some attention. They tell my husband that I am fake and phony but it is only because I try and be nice to them even though they have insulted me and have tried to destroy my marriage. My husband told me that they are his immediate family and that who knows if one day I could be his ex-wife. I have never let that comment go. He said he did not mean it but still he said it and it hurt really bad.

This post was submitted by Tabatha.

Really mean gossip…*&%$@!!!

My MIL is one of those people who honestly believes her ‘problem’ is the she is incapable of getting angry. She is forEVER telling everyone this, and she really believes this about herself. Unfortunately, she shows her sweetness in caustic, nasty ‘helpful’ remarks and gossip. I used to see her as pitiful, however her gossip has gotten so destructive that she actually succeeded in manipulating my husband and his brother into seriously disliking each other ( until they got smart and figured out what was going on). Dh’s niece, who is close to MIL, will not even speak to my husband in spite of the fact that we NEVER see her. How do you get that angry at someone you have not spoken to in years, you ask? Could it be you are too young to know not to listen to the idle gossip of a silly old woman? The last time we saw this niece she was at our house moving out furniture we were giving her for her first apartment!!! ( Still waiting for the thanks for that but…)
The final straw with us came when this niece got married. She made a point of not inviting DH or I to the wedding. Not a big deal - as I have said - we are not all that close to her, in fact we did not even know it was happening. HOWEVER MIL could not wait to call DH the next day to tell him ‘I told people at the wedding you were not invited because you do not like family invitations’ Mind you - half the people there have been guests in our home many times over the years…she then went on to tell him that she later apologized to everyone for saying it.
What kind of a Mother does this to her son? The woman is certifiable.
There have been a lot of other incidents - you will probably hear more in time, but that one did it for me. I am now finished with her. I will be polite when I have to, but I am done. Thanks for letting me vent.

This post was submitted by WestieButterfly.

I have the CRAZY MiL

Just let me say I don’t have the time to list everything that bothers me about my Mil (plus no one has the time to read it). I am just going to tell you a little bit about what is driving me NUTS here lately.
She is the fakest anyone could be. You can see right through her. Everytime she addresses my husband it is with “O My Son” (with a little more moaning). It is so gross! That is not even the half of it sometimes when she hugs him she puts her hands up the back of his shirt! I am not kidding! I sometimes catch her hitting him playfully (it seems like flirting)! I could just tell she wants him to start hitting her back (playfully). She recently lost a lot of weight(she cheated and had gastric bypass) and now she is getting a boob job/ body tuck. What is next the cover of playboy (she is 62 yrs. EEEWWW!). Last time we were at her house she was close enough to my hubby that she could hug him and she lifted up her shirt (to her bra line) and scrached. I have also caught her bathing with the bathroom door opened when she knew we were there (including my three children). This is really only a couple of thing that bother me…believe me there are plenty more things about this woman that is over the top. Maybe I will write some more another time. It does feel good to write about it.

This post was submitted by Deserae.

I was physically abusing her??

Background: My husband is an only child of a single mother who suffers from a laundry list of “serious” conditions. I am the youngest of 7 children and my parents are still married and hearing impaired. We have 2 daughters together and are both military.
My MIL has always made my life hell beginning with telling me that my husband was cheating on me (it wasn’t true). I have always taken it with a grain of salt because she suffers from dementia and her own mother told me she was evil. So when my husband was in Iraq for his 3rd tour she came to live with me. At the time my children lived with my mother because I was on a shift rotation with my position. She couldn’t pay her bills and was near being homeless. I offered my home and even made EVERYTHING in my home comfortable for her and her numerous disabilities. I worked 16 hour days and came home late every night. She always complained that I was “never paying attention to her” and needed to call her bill companies and arrange her budget. When I did and called her insurance company, I found out that many of her ailments were FAKE! and she had never suffered from any of them. She asked me to pay her bills up to date (I have 2 girls under 7 y/o) which I refused and to move to another apartment because mine didn’t have a wheelchair ramp. Then I lost my cool… after years of her BS I lost my cool. I blew up and let it rip. When I did, I found out she has insurance on my children with her as the beneficiary and she blamed me for her son not wanting to deal with her. So when I left the apt to chill off, I came home to an empty house…. where was she? She walked to the apartment of my maintenance man and woke his family up at 1130 PM screaming and crying that I threw her out and hit her. He came to my door and asked me to get this crazy woman because his wife was going to flip out if she didn’t leave. At this point it was incredibly dramatic. She refused to come home and walked to the front office and called her sister who was in the hospital with brain cancer and demanded her to pick her up. She called me every name in the book in front of these unknown people!ARGH! Then I got the rundown… She would go to the front office of my complex everyday and sit there watching TV, all the while telling EVERYONE who would listen to her, that I was abusing her, hiding food from her, stealing her medicine, taking her son (imaginary husband), and keeping her from her cancer physician (she didn’t have cancer). I have always wondered why they would look at me funny when I paid my rent and now I know. I have never been so mortified in my life. The next day I lived up to my word. I dropped her off at the train station, made her carry her own luggage to the car and into the station, made her pay for her own ticket and left her there. I don’t care who says this was mean. I wanted it to be mean. TEN FREAKIN’ YEARS OF HER!!! This was the least that I could do to teach her a lesson. My husband agrees that needed to happen and she hasn’t called me since. Oh, and my children are going to hell BC they are Catholics being raised by the deaf and DUMB! ARGH!! She is a Sheppard from the devil!!!

This post was submitted by Jennifer.

Psychotic manipulating wack job

First of all I have to say to the young ladies about to get married.STOP…and observe his parents carefully.If they do things that annoy you,if they have little quirks and attitudes that drive you up the wall.Guess what your future hub is going to be like.It doesnt hapen overnight,they morph very slowly untill one day you realise that you have married their clone.Find out everything about them and the family.
Find out their secrets and genetic diseases.If I knew then what I know now….Fil is in a CULT.UGH!!!
Where to start. I have come to the point that I am finsihed with them.Hub has never set boundaries and as a result psycho wack job belives that she can tells us what to do and how to do it.I could write for days.Nothing is ever good enough.This woman didnt say hardly 2 words to me until the day of our wedding that I didnt want,hub wanted a wedding to please mumsie…that should have tipped me off big time.

This post was submitted by Michelle Gartner.