Mother-in-Law HELL

My mother in law Joanne is controlling and just sad. Yesterday I was in San Diego on business and I called my spouse’s family who live in San Diego and who I have known for about 15 years, and said, hey I’m in town, it would be great to see you if that works for you if not no big deal. My spouse’s “Uncle Jimmy” and I spoke and he was genuinely happy to hear from me and said he’d talk to Cheryle (his wife) and look to swing by the hotel where I was staying, a nice place Coranado hotel.
He didn’t call back and you know I really did not think anything of it since such a last minute request and I was busy doing my thing at a conference, but today he calls and apologizes that he did not call yesterday and said that they are ‘not aloud…