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WhatsApp the craziest things your MIL has said?

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Summerends1 · 21/08/2025 10:28

  • WHATS Not whatsapp (thanks predictive text!) 😅
My DD, 1 at the time, had the slightest runny nose, a little sneeze and MIL screeched, “You better call the Doctor and demand you get seen this afternoon! You better had, or you’ll have social services at your door for neglect!” That sneeze never transpired into a cold….. But whats the craziest thing your MIL has said? This is NOT a MIL bashing thread, but it perplexes me that woman says the darndest things, but thats just who she is as a person! I do love her, she just confuses me.
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3flyingducksarrive · 22/01/2026 03:52

GreenDogDot · 22/08/2025 08:37

At birth my child was my absolute double, it was commented on by the doctor as she delivered her and then everyone who met her, it was a real copy and paste job. At a few days old my MIL sat on the sofa holding the baby and proceeded to list every obscure relative of hers and assign them to a body part of the baby - Second cousin Mary’s ears, great uncle Barry’s top lip and so on. I didn’t feature…

My MIL insisted that our son was the spitting image of her DH... that would be DH's stepfather.

LucyLoo1972 · 22/01/2026 03:26

Mismatc · 21/08/2025 13:42

My first MIL was beyond lovely. My current MIL is also lovely in her ways, very generous and adores her son and our daughter. I also have two children from my first H. My current DH treats them as his own and this is a huge issue for MIL. There is a bit of a culture clash and she is quite emotionally immature. This is no doubt as a result of her own experiences so deserves some grace.

Years ago, my DH was cuddled with two older DC watching a movie with MIL, she was on the other sofa. Later she said that she felt so pushed out on the other sofa. He thought she wanted to be more of involved in the family and wanted to feel like an insider with all of us. It later transpired that she was so jealous the he was cuddling DC and felt he should be on the other sofa cuddling and kissing her.

She hates that he loves me and all the DC and wishes his focus was on her and biological DC only. Family first

yikes!

TurkeyTwizlers · 17/10/2025 09:20

When I met my MIL she was the same age as I am now. I wouldn’t use my age to excuse the way I spoke to younger people.

Member984815 · 17/10/2025 09:12

CurlewKate · 15/10/2025 16:39

Yep. Let’s have a thread mocking older women.

I'd never mock my grandmother, it turns out she was spot on in the end.

CurlewKate · 15/10/2025 16:39

Yep. Let’s have a thread mocking older women.

Member984815 · 15/10/2025 16:22

Summerends1 · 21/08/2025 12:17

Absolutely 0 involvement with SS at all. She just says stuff like this sometimes,

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My dgm told my dm my dB would have to get rid of his dog when his child was born as ss would take the child 🙄, i also had a dog and young children but it was never brought up to me 😆. She didn't like his wife . Never any ss involvement either just an intense dislike for my dbs wife.

Soporalt · 25/08/2025 17:13

Many, but here’s a recent one. Our DD is a polyglot married to a lovely man from a European country. Apparently they shouldn’t be bringing up their DC bilingually because they live in England.

BettysRoasties · 25/08/2025 16:07

backandforthup · 25/08/2025 15:31

Sorry, what? She asked if you wanted her to terminate your pregnancy? Have I read this wrong?

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You’ve read it right.

backandforthup · 25/08/2025 15:31

BettysRoasties · 22/08/2025 19:30

When we announced our impending arrival very happily and excitedly, she asked if we needed her to fix it.

Fils never said anything bonkers or weird so couldn’t add anything from him to the moaners. My dad barely talks let alone texts, mum just rabbits on but she’s never said anything out there.

Sorry, what? She asked if you wanted her to terminate your pregnancy? Have I read this wrong?

MrsBeltane · 22/08/2025 19:37

My MIL won't go to Cornwall as there's no where to park.

platinumanddiamonds · 22/08/2025 19:34

Utterlyexhausted · 22/08/2025 18:56

That it’s my dh’s fault she has urinary incontinence! 😂

🤣🤣

BettysRoasties · 22/08/2025 19:30

When we announced our impending arrival very happily and excitedly, she asked if we needed her to fix it.

Fils never said anything bonkers or weird so couldn’t add anything from him to the moaners. My dad barely talks let alone texts, mum just rabbits on but she’s never said anything out there.

MaltWispa · 22/08/2025 19:27

Wanting to give my DD, who was about 2/3 months at the time, Calpol just because she wasn't happy being held by her....! (Obviously I didn't, but this was repeated several times - nothing wrong with her at all, was just fussy with everyone other than me!).

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 22/08/2025 19:22

"Are you going to give me grandchildren?"

I was over 50 when we wed.

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Summerends1 · 22/08/2025 19:09

chilliheeler123 · 22/08/2025 18:48

She screamed at me and told me that I was worthless, and that even my own ‘bitch of a mother’ had abandoned me. I was 26, DP and I were living in our own home and my Mum was on a two-week holiday 🤣

She was drunk at the time, DP asked her to leave and she responded by punching me in the face. We cut her off there and then, and it’s been a wonderful 5 years! Awful, bloody monstrous woman.

PS: my Mum is perfectly lovely, and returned from her holiday as expected 🤣

She punched you in the face? Lord! 😳😳 what a monster!!

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Utterlyexhausted · 22/08/2025 18:56

That it’s my dh’s fault she has urinary incontinence! 😂

chilliheeler123 · 22/08/2025 18:48

She screamed at me and told me that I was worthless, and that even my own ‘bitch of a mother’ had abandoned me. I was 26, DP and I were living in our own home and my Mum was on a two-week holiday 🤣

She was drunk at the time, DP asked her to leave and she responded by punching me in the face. We cut her off there and then, and it’s been a wonderful 5 years! Awful, bloody monstrous woman.

PS: my Mum is perfectly lovely, and returned from her holiday as expected 🤣

Hoppinggreen · 22/08/2025 18:36

She asked me if I had been monitoring DH while doing his breathing into a tube thingy The GP had asked him to do once a day to check lung function
I suggested that as he was 30 years old with 2 hands and a responsible job he could probably manage on his own she replied
"well you would do it for one of your cats"

tealandteal · 22/08/2025 18:32

Not my MIL but my DM, when talking about what she remembered from her own grandmothers house, asked my DH if he remembered when fridges became common in houses? Given that he is the same age as me(early thirties) and she had said she didn’t remember this, definitely not!

platinumanddiamonds · 22/08/2025 18:18

shirtsandskirts · 21/08/2025 12:03

How MN loves threads which bash older women. THey are so misogynistic.
What about FILS? On MN the hate posts seem mainly to focus on MILS, SILS and step daughters. These threads are so anti women.

I took this thread as a light hearted reminder of things said without meaning to be nasty

platinumanddiamonds · 22/08/2025 18:15

My mother in law was a great mum and gran but sometimes said inappropriate things.
when I had my first son my mum had been admitted to hospital as an emergency?heart attack.
He was overdue skin peeling and lookEd like a skinny rabbit.
She first said “oh I thought you’d have a girl”then “he looks like a starved prisoner of war!”
everyone just sat with their mouths hanging open.
She learned to love that boy more than she could have imagined and we laughed many times about her comment. 🤣

MyLittleNest · 22/08/2025 17:52

GreenDogDot · 22/08/2025 08:37

At birth my child was my absolute double, it was commented on by the doctor as she delivered her and then everyone who met her, it was a real copy and paste job. At a few days old my MIL sat on the sofa holding the baby and proceeded to list every obscure relative of hers and assign them to a body part of the baby - Second cousin Mary’s ears, great uncle Barry’s top lip and so on. I didn’t feature…

I relate! My narc mother told everyone who would listen that my DD looked she (my mother) and my husband had a baby together.

Campingisnexttogodliness · 22/08/2025 12:28

When we told mil I was pregnant she hissed at me (when dh was out the room) that his ex had wanted his babies... I never told dh.
And mil dumped us and hasn't seen ds is 10 years since he was 3 months old
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Summerends1 · 22/08/2025 12:27

piefacedClique · 22/08/2025 12:23

When discussing my wedding dress she came out with this beaut! “Our Jane is fat like you and she still looked ok in white” I was a size12/14!

Oh good old Jane 🙈😅

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piefacedClique · 22/08/2025 12:23

When discussing my wedding dress she came out with this beaut! “Our Jane is fat like you and she still looked ok in white” I was a size12/14!