My MIL is also my BOSS!!! …well not anymore since I “got her fired”
by annonymous on 09/20 @ 5:22amI met my boyfriend (will be husband one day) at work 2 years ago. Unfortunately, his mother also worked there and was also my boss. I debated heavily about dating him in the first place because I didn’t want to jeopardize my job but got along well with his mother and decided I wanted to be with him….afterall, you can’t control who you fall in love with.
Throughout the 2 years of knowing her outside of work, I began to see her true colors. She was very unstable as far as her mood, she would throw tantrums and treat her sons and husband like they were dirt for no reason.. Throw things at them, threaten them..over react about things such as “how inappropriate it is that my boyfriend stand in the same room with me if she wasnt in there”….the list goes on. Unfortunately, the males in the family are very submissive so no one will stand up to her and the behavior continues. Their philosophy is “just ignore it and it will go away”
Even though I didnt agree with the way she treated her family I never really had any personal encounters.. although with every incident, my patience grew weaker.
Over the past 2-3 months at work, there have been a lot of changes in our company. A new director was hired and was not happy with how management was currently running….and the rumblings of layoffs began. Shortly after, my future MIL/boss started to treat me very poorly..talking to me like I was stupid, being very rude to me in front of everyone and being in my opinion unprofessional. On a strictly business level(not personal), I filed a complaint to her boss 2 weeks ago.
Fast forward to today. Today human resources came in and fired every single manager we had. (Again, this was expected a long time ago.)
She called my boyfriend in a fit of rage telling him how Im a bad person and a back stabber and asking him “do you really want to be with someone like that for the rest of your life?”. Long story short she is blaming me for her being fired!
If ONLY I had the power to fire people… Im a low man on the totum pole and dont feel that my complaint had anything to do with it. She was going to be let go either way. I didn’t complain about any of the other managers and they were let go too.. so obviously it has nothing to do with me.
She now hates me and has told my boyfriend she doesnt want him to see me anymore and how Im banned from the family,etc.
Its already causing a rift between me and my boyfriend because Im putting the pressure on him to stand up to her. I want him to say, “my girlfriend is a part of my life and shes not going anywhere, she did not get you fired and you WILL not treat her any differently or you will lose me.”
I would say that to my mother if this was the other way around. But I know that won’t happen and Im just anticpating the crap thats going to go down. I hope she begins to think rationally about this and realizes that I had no power to get her fired.
Just a word of advice to everyone. NEVER DATE YOUR BOSS’S SON!!!!






2 Responses to “My MIL is also my BOSS!!! …well not anymore since I “got her fired””
Dear “Never Date Your Boss’s Son”,
Want some advice? This is an unfortunate situation, but you did nothing wrong from what I can see. My advice is to lay low and let the dust settle for at least a couple of weeks. I wouldn’t even see your boyfriend if I were you . . . he needs time to Miss You and figure out what he wants, and the possible future MIL needs some time to cool off! In my opinion, this is out of your hands. This is up to your boyfriend and will show you his “True Colors”. If he listens to his Mom and decides not to date you, then you’re better off without him. If he tries to see you secretly, well, he has no back bone and you’re still better off without him. But if he stands up to his Mother and defends your honor? Well, he just might be worth fighting for! Good Luck To You and I hope it works out for the best!
This happened to me, my boyfriend’s mom just didn’t want to have anything to do with me or him, as long as he was with me. Not wanting to cause a huge rift in the family, we gave it some space but realized that us being separated wasn’t going to work either… So he decided to keep seeing me, and the fighting got so bad at home that he eventually moved out. This only made his mom think that “he chose his girlfriend over me.” I never wanted that to be the case but she was so unreasonable, always screaming, even calling me up at home and yelling too!
So fast forward to a year later… he hasn’t been home to see her since, and we are now engaged. Obviously not taken very well, but she insists on wanting nothing to do with us so what choice do we have? I guess she won’t be attending the ceremony…