Mother-in-Law HELL

My husband and I have been married for nearly 9 months. From the moment we got engaged, his mother has been talking about having a grandchild. The only reason she wants one is because her friends have grandkids so she wants one too. She thinks my SIL in selfish because she’s not interested in having children. She actually started crying when I told her that my husband and I are going to eventually have children. The problem is that my MIL brings it up having children every single time I see her. It’s about to drive me crazy. How can I tactfully tell her to back off?

My MIL is a piece of work. She hasn’t seen us since we flew down to Florida in October to celebrate the holidays with family, then two days after we tell her my hubby got a promotion she is coming to visit and wanting a ‘project’ for her to do or for me to do while she watches the baby. She works as a pilot car driver and drives across the country every other week. Its not like she hasn’t been near us, but when we made $23K and were barely scrimping by we protested spending money on anything.

I printed out some plans for making a raised garden bed because I was going to do that with the hubby anyway, so why not. She then had to remeasure and remark everything I had done because she ‘measures twice cut once.’ And she had to mark a straight line all the…

Nearly 20 years (so far) of mother-in-law hell began with a video camera. The very first time I met his parents, they stuck a video camera in my face. My future husband and I hadn’t even been dating that long, only a couple of months in fact, and to me, it was just plain rude to assume that it was okay to video tape someone, especially someone you don’t even know! Little did I know that “rude” was her middle name.

With that great first impression in the back of my mind, the next time they visited us I asked my husband to request that she not bring the video camera to the family get-together that was planned with my family, since none of my family members think video cameras are in any way fun. We hate them. I was okay with her video taping my husband’s college graduation ceremony, but…

Well, I am glad that I am not the only who can’t stand their mother-in-law. When my husband and I first got together, his mother was estatic. She loved me and thought he son could do no better. She was sweet as could be until she found out her son was actually falling in love with me. From that point forward, she was was hateful towards me. One day, she cornered me at the place she worked and started screaming. “He doesn’t love you and never will. If think marriage is in your future, you better run along and find someone else.” She said that he will never have kids with me and that he told her that the thought of having sex with me replused him. I knew this was all untrue and she was just trying to protect her baby boy. Much to her dismay, we are happily…