Mothers-in Law

tesuhoha

I've just read this rather nice story in the DM.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2935560/Her-husband-warned-theyd-never-exquisitely-moving-testimony-author-says-Dont-mock-mothers-law-soulmate.html

Unfortunately my mother in law was a suspicious, judgmental, cold, cruel woman with an evil tongue. I would have loved a nice relationship like this one. Do any of you have nice mothers-in-law? Or nasty. I remember once my sister in law was on the phone to her mother (my mother in law) and she handed me the phone and the woman was saying some really nasty horrible things about me.

duchy

My first mother in law was a nightmare. She did everything she possibly could to undermine me. We married really young and the marriage didn't last and whilst I'm not saying she caused the split- she certainly contributed to it.

Fast forward nearly twenty years and I was back in touch with my BIL -who told me every relationship my ex has had since according to his mother the woman wasn't as good as me and how her son was a fool to have let me go <eye roll>

ineed

Your mother-in-laws sound awful , I'm not married but OH mother is fortunately a lovely woman. She is very kind and goes out of her way to help and do nice things, as an example I mentioned to her once that I'd seen some gloves I liked in a magazine and she hunted them down and brought them for me.

browneyedbazzi

I'm not married, so she's not officially my mother in law, but my partner's mum is absolutely lovely. She's generally a really nice, thoughtful and intelligent lady. We have similar interests and like doing the same sorts of things so we enjoy each other's company - they stay with us quite frequently and we go on holiday together at least once a year as well. I love her to bits and feel incredibly lucky!

Better_Days

My MIL was lovely, sadly she passed away suddenly when she was in her early 50's.

My mother on the other hand.........

kathrynha

My mother-in-law is an attention seeking hypercondriac who's attitudes are stuck in the 1950s.
She hates me because I make her son do some of the housework and I let my daughter play football and wear trousers.

Better_Days

kathrynha wrote: »

She hates me because I make her son do some of the housework and I let my daughter play football and wear trousers.

Ohhh the shame :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

sulphate

My MIL is genuinely lovely most of the time but I won't pass up the opportunity to have a bit of a moan.

She was mostly awesome before DH and I got married, ever since then she likes to enquire and judge about most aspects of our lives. Nothing we do is ever really "good enough", she wants the best for her darling son, can't understand why we don't spend our money the way she wants us to, etc etc.

At the moment she has an odd habit of saying things to me while my DH is out of the room that she doesn't say when he's there. Highlights include me telling her we weren't going to be buying another house just yet because my income would drop whilst on maternity leave, her response was "well no one else worries how they will pay the mortgage". She also told my DH that they wanted to buy a cot for us as a gift, but then the following week complained to me that DH was very cheeky to ask them. When I mentioned this conversation discreetly to DH a few days later, he asked her if there was a problem to which she glossed over the subject "Oh no darling I was just complaining about the cost of things these days".

Our baby is due in the next couple of weeks and the sex is a huge issue too. She doesn't understand why we haven't found out the sex and thought it was some big secret we were keeping from her. I thought she had let it go but then she came over and saw a moses basket that my friend gave us, which happens to have blue covers - I explained it was a gift and that a baby girl isn't going to care about the colour of the bedding. She then txted my DH "are you sure you don't know the sex??? You can tell me if you want. I won't tell Sulphate you told me". ARGH!

fluffnutter

How did all these terrible women manage to raise such pleasant sons?

VestanPance

My ex mother-in-law was awesome. Shame about her daughter!

trailingspouse

Well, I'm a Mother-in-Law, and I'm lovely.