Please share your looniest Mother in Law stories with me:

[Thtwudbeme]

The nuttier, the better...

I need to laugh-

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I would, but you wouldn't laugh.

You would weep in sorrow for the shit I had to put up with and rush to VA to help me feel better.

[Thtwudbeme]

2. Well...I am in NC...

But, seriously...do tell....I need some company

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Well, this is a classic.

After my first child was born, I suffered from gallbladder disease, but needed to have a barium type test before they would remove it, and the baby was still nursing....


...so, I decided to go vegan, low fat, whatever it took not to have an attack and to allow my daughter to wean herself.


The family is well aware of this mind you. We go to MA to visit my in-laws and they are serving Roast Beef. My husband says to his mother "**** can't eat that, it could kill her".....



MIL.....Wait for it......... Shrugs.

We went out for a salad. They were pissed. I hated that witch. I keep envisioning her attempting to get into Heaven and my mom kicking her back to Hell.

I have many, many more.

[Thtwudbeme]

8. OK....

My husband and I have been married for going on 3 years...

ONLY comment my MIL made about our wedding (husband WANTED to elope...that should have been a clue) was "Oh, I really thought he was going to marry ******. That reminds me, I need to send her a card."

That was the beginning...it is going downhill even faster.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. I can top that.

At my wedding, taking photos, MIL decides she wants a photo of her, FIL, my husband, SIL....and I ASSUMED, ME THE FUCKING BRIDE....especially since my parents were paying for it.

I started to cross the room to get into the picture and she put out her hand and said "No, just our family".

[Thtwudbeme]

12. Bwahahahahahahahah

OK... that's a good one!

We have been married for 3 years....FIL starts a "Photo Wall" last week with photos of his family.....except that there are a few people missing.

Most notably? (besides me, that's a 'gimme') His kids from his first marriage...because my MIL despises them, and feels like they conspire against her.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. The only picture of me in their house was ONE wedding photo

with their son. Every picture of my kids was with their lunatic daughter holding the child.

Dear God....I really am glad to be rid of her.

[flamingyouth]

3. Nothing can beat my co-worker's MIL story.

Her mother-in-law is an honest-to-God Nazi. :yoiks:

[Thtwudbeme]

4. Oh yuk

what does the spouse think of that shit?

[flamingyouth]

5. He thinks his parents are nuts.

But they're his parents still. They have very little contact with them, as his parents live in Brazil and they're in their 80s now. They used to send all kinds of awful Holocaust-denial crap to them, but he put a stop to that. Ai-yi-yi...

[purr]

7. My freeper MIL

blew off my bridal shower and just this weekend my son's (her GRANDSON) baptism to go to their trailer and boat at the shore. They go every year at this time to their precious boat.

Then they had the nerve to say "good luck on saturday!!" like fu.

Ok its not loony.. they're just ignorant and the run of the mill born again/freepers.

[Thtwudbeme]

10. They don't sound looney....they sound like assholes

who are going to wonder why their kids aren't there for them when they go into the nursing home.

I can't understand why people don't recognize their own chickens when they come home to roost.

[purr]

13. Isnt that the truth.. they wonder why we dont go visit.

My husband hates talking to them and the holidays are fast approaching so that means I have to deal with them. The only grandkid they care about is my husbands kid (my stepson) who they basically raised. THey could care less about my 3 mo old.

Get this - a month after he was born they came to get their golden grandchild and after they left his mother called to ask what the babys name is. :rofl:

They live oh.. 20 min from us and its too much for them to get in a car and come visit.. WE have to pack the kids in the car.. needless to say I havent been there since last year.

[MountainLaurel]

23. I always wonder about that

When I read a letter in Ann Landers from some poor grandmother whose children will have nothing to do with her. I'd bet nine times out of ten the kids have some good reasons for it.

[fortyfeetunder]

42. I can explain that: Elder Entitlement

I think in the case of some of the extreme inlaw behavior -- because they are the parents, they expect to be an integral part of their children's lives. Therefore they feel entitled to be parents held to a pedestal above their child's marriage.

The most narcissistic and selfish parents expect not to be second place to their child's spouse. If the parents don't approve of the marriage, it's not their problem, it's the the daughter (or son-)in law's problem. And I am speaking in the case of a healthy marriage (that is, no abuse or risky behavior)!!!

Therefore, this population feel entitled to whatever the hell they can say to their children, treat their children's spouses any way they please.

Folks like these end up the lonely ones in the nursing homes.

[gardenista]

11. If only my dear Mother in Law had lived long enough to bring more

looniness into our lives...

:cry:

She was pretty amazing.

[Left_Winger]

15. Here's mine

All this took place in the visitation parlor of a funeral home when my ex’s father passed away in 1986. BTW, he didn’t pass away, he committed suicide after murdering his exotic dancer girlfriend. Why? I don’t know, my ex’s family never allowed me to meet him; neither did they discuss him in my presence except to curse him.

Anyway here’s the story:
We had to go to his hometown for the funeral. I sat there watching all these weird fundie-types crying and wailing over the corpse. Not only are they making all this racket, they were stroking his hair, kissing him, etc. To someone who was raised as a sterile, “white-bread” Episcopalian, all this was freaking me out, to say the least. Then everyone took a seat, gentle sobbing was heard and the preacher was about to say a few words. Now, it became interesting. A woman and two children entered the room and walked up to the casket.

My ex-MIL stood up and stomped over to this unknown woman and inquired in a very demanding manner, “Just who are you?” The other woman politely stated, “Why, we’re his family. I was his wife and these are his children.” Then my ex-MIL screamed, “You lying, cheating whore! I was his wife!” and slaped the nice woman in the face so hard it knocked off her veil. The other woman did not hit her back, but peacefully (and quickly) left with her children. I never saw her again.

It turned out that I married a looney and it lasted only two years. The father of my ex did have a second family in Texas.

[Thtwudbeme]

20. Now that's a horrible story

Thank you for sharing though...I really needed to read other people's experiences-

[Pool Hall Ace]

16. Wow, great stories so far.

My in-laws almost never fail to make a racist or hateful comment, but I haven't had to deal with anything like these stories so far (I've been married one year).

[Midlodemocrat]

17. Trust me, the insanity creeps in BEFORE the wedding.

My MIL was so upset that her son was marrying and not her beloved daughter she just about came unglued.

Sick. Sick. Manipulative fucker.

Which is why there was a grand total of 8 people, yup 8 at her wake. Me, hubby, FIL, SIL, and FIL's two brothers and wives.


She was SOOOO loved. :eyes:

[Thtwudbeme]

18. I wouldn't know....but, it should be noted

that my sister in law told me, "Mom is nuts...you WILL see it...trust me."

I wouldn't know about the pre-wedding stuff because my husband and I didn't hang out with his folks much before the wedding--

[MountainLaurel]

24. A friend of mine is in the same boat

She and her husband have been seriously considering breaking off all contact with his parents for some time. These people have not seen their year-old grandson because they refuse to agree to not use racial slurs or make homophobic comments in the child's presence, or to not talk religion (the MIL is a KKKristian who would tell a four-year-old he's going to hell).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Many years later, even after a divorce, this still bugs me:

My husband's (now ex's) family had a cabin on a lake. We didn't have a lot of money for a honeymoon, so we, with his parents' permission, of course, decided to go to the cabin. But the Fourth of July weekend came in the middle of our honeymoon, and the in-laws ALWAYS go to the cabin for the Fourth of July, so they showed up in the middle of our honeymoon, and we had to sleep on separate trundle beds in the living room of the cabin so the in-laws could have the bedroom. Talk about a wet blanket on your hot honeymoon!

Oh, and for Christmas later that year my new MIL gave me a couple of dish towels. Not so crazy as some of these other stories, but irritating, just the same. We never did get along very well.

[Kali]

21. I am the one with the freaky family

the stories poor Husband could tell......

[PassingFair]

22. My mother-in-law had the good grace...

to move to Florida!
She's kinda cantankerous, but lovable.
We get to see her on holidays, but she can't take too much of the grandkids (6 of 'em) so she hightails it back home A.S.A.P.

She raised her own 6 kids pretty much alone, while her physician husband philandered and was basically never home. I figured she PUT HER TIME IN and deserves her rest.

I respect that.

Now MY MOTHER, who lives across the street....well you'd have to ask my husband about that, but not, please, in my presence. He wouldn't be able to speak freely....!

[babylonsister]

25. I like my m-i-l, BUT

when I was dating her son, she had a bunch of people over for New England corned beef dinner. One of the invited was her former daughter-in-law, my husband's ex. The men went into the living room to watch football (hey, I love football but apparently that's not the way things were done) while I got placed right next to his ex at the dinner table. Errr, pass the mustard, please? It was very uncomfortable, and I've never let her forget it.

Edit to add: my in-laws never acknowledged our wedding, never sent a gift, nada, until their son raised a bit of a stink about it. I think they wound up sending us a check for $50.

[Thtwudbeme]

28. and, I have to ask.....what the HELL was wrong with the ex-DIL

that agreed to GO to that dinner in the first fucking place????

Tacky.

[Mutley]

26. Not as nuts as some of these stories...

but when my SO called his mom to tell her we are getting married (the first time he'd spoken to her in about 2 years) all she could say was "where's the money I lent you five years ago?"

[Midlodemocrat]

27. When my husband called his mother to tell her

we were getting married, she went 'eh?'.....


Auspicious beginnings.

[Mutley]

29. Eh, I don't care.

I only met her once, and she told my SO I have 'big boobs'. That's it. :shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. I adore my in-laws.

They make up for the fact that my mom is a raving bitch. reprehensor could tell much better stories than I.

But to start with, she once told me she wished that I'd choked on my umbilical cord. She also threatened to kill me 2 years ago. ("I'd bring my gun up and shoot you the minute you opened the door. And I have a new car. So you wouldn't even know who did it.")

fsc

[Thtwudbeme]

31. Holy Shit!

Wow...your mom is a whack job!

I am so sorry......

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. Thanks.

Somehow, we worked through it, but she's up this weekend, and I've been ready to beat her with a fireplace poker for several days now.

Thank God she's leaving tomorrow.

She's already pissed off my brother so much he won't have anything to do with her. She's told me she doesn't expect me to take care of her when she gets old. ("Really? Good. Because I plan on moving several thousand miles away and finally being free of you.")

I'll feel absolutely no grief when she's gone.

[Shine]

32. My MIL is deceased, but before she died, she was a stroke victim

who couldn't really speak. She was that way for the last 16 yrs of her life, bless her heart. She was in a wheelchair, had half her leg missing, couldn't speak, but understood everything. Well, she could speak, but the only words were "Yes" and "No", which she often and usually mixed up. The other word was she could say was "shit".

Somehow, however, she always managed to get her message across. She was an amazing and inspirational woman, who will never be forgotten.

:hi:
Shine

[fortyfeetunder]

33. More excited about a burglary instead of pregnancy

When the spouse and I went to visit the MIL when we knew it was "certain" we were indeed pregnant, MIL was spending more time ranting about the recent burglary of their recreational vehicle -- something she and her spouse had rarely used -- than about the news of a first grandchild.

[momophile]

35. sounds like my MIL...

when her son and I told her that we were engaged she said something like 'oh good' then went on and on about some stupid thing and then would occasionally stop to ask us a question like 'when' and 'where.' She never shuts up. And it's always about nothing. Or it might have been about something the first time she told us but now that it's the one hundredth time I DON'T CARE!

I skipping dinner with her at this very moment.

[NNadir]

34. My mother-in-law regularly short changed my wife on everything.

For years, when none of my sisters-in-law were married, she'd announced that she wouldn't help with this or that because "we don't believe in helping married children" - my wife being the only married one.

When the others got married that rule vanished.

Some of the loonier stuff has been sharing the details of her unsatisfying sex life with my father-in-law - which my wife would rather not know about, but I guess the crazy inequities were the worse than that.

I guess the best was the first remark out of my father-in-law's mouth when we announced our engagement, "I'm not paying for the wedding." In those days I didn't speak Italian so I didn't know that this was the Italian phrase for "I don't approve of this marriage."

We eloped.

A few years later, when my wife's sister was getting married, of course a giant wedding was thrown at my in-law's expense - and my mother-in-law first told my wife that she would have to pay for her own dress (maid of honor) because she was married - but that none of the other sisters would have to pay for their bridesmaids dresses because they were still single, including the bride to be. (She rescinded when my wife threatened simply not to attend the wedding.) Then she told us that there was no room for us to stay in her house for the wedding, too many cousins and aunts were coming -but told us that we could each sleep on the floors of separate houses belonging to separate members of my sister-in-law's religous cult.

(We got a hotel.)

For about a year, my wife cut her family off completely, but she forgave them at the request of my father, who was dying and asked her, as one of his last wishes, to call her mother. My wife did so at the time of my father's funeral and to her credit, my mother-in-law came and expressed much sympathy and tried hard to make amends.

But it's been a long time, and a lot of this stuff has gone away and softened. There are occassional slip ups and cutting remarks, but it's nowhere near what it used to be. Both of my in laws now treat me with respect and love overall. Now my mother-in-law is better to my wife than she used to be, more balanced, more fair. My wife, although she will never really heal fully from these things - which go back to her earliest childhood - is mostly gracious and forgiving. There's still an edge, but we have decided to get past it. My in-laws are not likely to live all that much longer, so we need to be at peace with them.

[hippywife]

37. Even though I already know this

you all are making me realize what a true gem I have for a MIL.

[fortyfeetunder]

40. You are one of the lucky few.

Check out www.motherinlawstories.com and you will see just how lucky you are!

[lady raven]

38. My Repug MIL

(who isn't very nice otherwise either) shot one of her husbands!!!!! Twice!

[tigereye]

39. mine is really cool

very liberal, funny, and sweet. So I don't have any loony stories. I think of her as kind of a bohemian.... :)

My BIL has rarely seen his nephew (now almost 10) and didn't even come to our wedding, though. I still haven't figured all that out.

[SW FL Dem]

41. My stories wouldn't make you laugh

My MIL hated me from day one because I wasn't Jewish and wouldn't let her control my life. We've battled constantly for 20+ years. It's been awful, but the only silver lining is that hubby takes my side and defends me, even if it is uncomfortable for him.