Mother-in-Law HELL

Well, I have this complicated “relationship” with my MIL. I don’t even know where to begin, since I started dating her youngest son, I realize how overprotective she was. Her son (my now husband) was 24 when we met and she would call me in the middle of our dates to see at what time he’ll get home. He wouldn’t answer the phone and she’ll go nuts and would have his older brothers call him to make sure he was still alive or something. Anyways, that just shows how annoying, manipulative and way overprotective she is. When I went to my then bf house, she would tell me in private not to make her son spend too much money on our dates and not to send him home so late…How ridiculous! I told my then boyfriend what his mom was telling me and he would have big arguments back at…

I started dating my husband in 2005 which at the time was still married (1st RED FLAG) and I later found out his mother caused that divorce. We got married in 2008 and 5 months after our marriage he starts cheating on me with some woman he met off the internet in another state. His mother knew he was cheating on me and this woman he was seeing would come and stay at his mom’s house and he would tell me lies that he had to help his mom. He is the only child and he moved from cross country at the end of 2003 I believe to help his mom take care of his autistic/mental retarded uncle and dying grand-father. She wasn’t as bad in the beginning but I think she does it on purpose and after we got married she would call and he would go running to…

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Mother in Law (MIL) – or more correctly MONSTER-IN-LAW
Mamma’s little soldier – MLS
Foolish Me – FM
FIL – Deceased when MLS was 18 (explains a lot).

I had been with this guy for about a year when he decides that he needs to move back to his hometown, he’s finally managed to get a deecent job and he really wants to get his act together.. One thing and another we decide to move in together. I’m a little unsure about the whole plan – afterall I’d be moving away from good friends, a place that I love living, will have to get a new job etc etc. Still ‘he loves me’, I’m the ‘best thing that’s ever happened to him’, I’m ‘his best friend’ etc etc – he needs my support with this thing and so on and so forth.

Next thing is – MLS tells me that MIL is moving to Spain…

My MIL confuses me. When I first met her I thought she was a cold, indifferent woman. Now I have come to see her as a very jealous, manipulative and competitive person. Early on, my H told me that he was a momma’s boy. I thought he was just joking around ’cause he didn’t really seem that close to his mum. As I have gotten to know him I’ve realized that things aren’t what they seem. He seems to feel a deep need to always please her. When we go away he needs to be constantly texting her (several times a day), telling her every detail of what we are doing. His father said she wants to know what he’s doing every minute of the day. My H denies that this is the reason. He says he wants to contact her. When it came to our wedding everything had to…

I know some of you are probably thinking “what’s she complaining about?” lol. But trust me, it can be as difficult as a MIL that is always getting in your face. I feel that at least in those situations, your MIL is acknowledging that you exist. Well, let me start from the beginning:

I’ve been with my bf for 2 years now and we get along great. We’re pretty serious and are talking about moving in together in the future when he’s done with college (I finished in May and he has a year left. He’s older btw, it’s just that he started later than me because he worked for a few years after hs.) For the first 6 months of our relationship he kept it hidden from his parents because he figured they would react negatively. See, we’re from different races. He said that if we wait to see until…

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,…