Mother-in-Law HELL

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,…

Thanks for sharing your stories. I don’t feel so alone after reading your courageous and honest postings.

I got engaged recently and we’re getting married this summer. We’ll call him A. A and I have been dating for 5 years and very much in love. The sad part is his parents disapprove of our relationship and me. Over the years, I felt that they never gave me a fair chance to get to know me. After all the mean treatments I get from them, I don’t care for their acceptance anymore. Actually, I would be happier to be far away from them. Unfortunately, we live in the same town and my fiance works for them.

The issue is I’m willing to get married as long as my partner stand by my side. But I feel he doesn’t stand up for us or for me or for himself. His parents sit there and…

Hi. Im currently engaged to my fiance who was just recently deployed to iraq. Which is hard on both me and my MIL i admit but its not about his deployment it is about when he is home. Now i understand him being in the army is hard for her but it is to late he is already in the army and there is nothing we can do about it but anyways when he comes home, atleast twice everytime she is home she would make some kind of comment to me. When he is home he stays with me and doesnt stay at home with her but he does still go see them quite a bit even though she DEMANDS that he sleeps at home which i dont understand because atleast when we sleep together we spend time together you know, its like she wants to marry him. Then this…