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.