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I am your mil

190 replies

TTC45 · 05/10/2020 05:13

OK ok

So I've seen a few of these before and they proper cracked me up.

I thought of it randomly today and decided to start one.

I promise that you that it is all entirely lighthearted and that I know that not all mil are bad ;)

So go on, ask me or tell me something?

For I am your mil.

OP posts:
VinylDetective · 05/10/2020 18:31

@Pickypolly

They miss you. I’m still annoyed at you for dying. I hope that you really enjoyed your last few years, I did my best to bring you happiness and some sunshine. I hope you know that everything is fine, because it is.
That brought tears to my eyes. What a lovely woman you are.
maddiemookins16mum · 05/10/2020 18:32

I love you and am so proud to be married to your Son. I dread the day you’re no longer part of all our lives.

Oh and thanks for the homemade chutney (even though it’s way too spicy).

AutumnleavesturntoGold · 05/10/2020 18:36

Dearest Mil,
You are one of if not the most evil person I have ever met. You absolutely did not deserve my husband as your son.
How can you view life through such a narrow prism of money money money.

How can you reduce and distill your own flesh and blood down to how much money he earns.
Did you really think you could treat him like shit forever and still see him? Did you really think you could treat him appallingly, and his wife and his dc and still see us all?

Couchbettato · 05/10/2020 18:37

Dear MIL, babies aren't emotional support animals. Stop throwing bitch fits when they don't want to be picked up by you.

GenderApostate19 · 05/10/2020 18:41

Everyone thought you were wonderful, the life and soul of the party, the outpouring of love at your funeral made me want to stand up and tell them what you were really were.
Vengeful, bitter, downright nasty when you didn’t get your own way, your moods could last for days.
The only good thing I can say about you was that you loved DD, your first grandchild, you never thought I was good enough for your family.
Unfortunately your Daughter is now every bit as awful as you were, she has destroyed your precious family and DH will never forgive her over her behaviour since DFiL died.
Nobody knows you told me that DD would die a horrible death if we didn’t have her baptised, not even DH, he always knew you were a ‘difficult’ woman but I’ve kept some of the vilest things you said or did to me from him, it would serve no purpose to tell him 20 years after your death.

I’m now older than you were when you died, that makes me happy.

MissConductUS · 05/10/2020 18:53

You've been fabulous to me and our children and we all love and respect you very much.

ColintheCrow · 05/10/2020 18:53

Lovely ex MIL who treated my son exactly the same as her legitimate grandchildren. Thank you and I miss you so much.

Yipitsme · 05/10/2020 19:05

Dear Mil,
Why dont you help me with my son,your disabled grandson? What do you really think when you see my tear stained face,my sore tired eyes from no sleep and my boney scratched body carrying my too big son who is constantly pulling my hair?where is your god given compassion?why do you help your daughters with their kids?why do you sit back while they tell you to let me do it myself and it's not their responsibility?can you not see the hurt on your sons face ,the pain of seeing his son who will never be better,his wife who has been destroyed by it all?are you really blind to it all or just cruel?just because your daughters took an irrational dislike to me from the day I met your son,did you really have to side with them?

Sexnotgender · 05/10/2020 19:15

I miss you. It’s been just over a year since you and we all miss you.

Really wish you’d made it to visit us at Christmas last year like we planned.

You’d be super excited I’m pregnantFlowers

Sexnotgender · 05/10/2020 19:15

Since you died.

MrsAvocet · 05/10/2020 19:18

Your grandaughter hates you. She is only polite to you because I have brought her up well. What makes you think you have the right to tell her how to live her life and why do you treat her like a small child when she is in her 20s?!

Yipitsme · 05/10/2020 19:18

@Menofsteel such lovely words,made me well up.she sounds amazing. Some people are so so lucky to meet such wonderful humans and even luckier to call them family.i pray for things to change ,I'd do anything for a loving relationship with my in laws,20 years of trying on my behalf to no avail.

pontiouspilates · 05/10/2020 19:25

We all miss you so much. I was so lucky to have you as my MiL and you were a fantastic Grandma.

Porcupine83 · 05/10/2020 19:28

Dear MiL,
Please stop buying me socks now. I have too many and the drawer won’t close.
Otherwise, as you were.

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 05/10/2020 19:32

MIL-I love you dearly, I do. But you are selfish and self centred and stop putting my DD front and for most-my two DS’s are as much as her and deserve your love as much. Also, when DH’s brother shows up stop with the fatted calf thing-he doesn’t care-he’s not here! And you make us feel like shit when you ignore our family for the two weeks he is here with his family every other year. We can all spend time together-in fact SIL would prefer that as our kids love each other!

1940s · 05/10/2020 19:42

Stop trying to gossip in a whisper. I can never ever ever hear you and I've given up asking you to raise your voice as it's 'gossip' so I now laugh along pretending to know what you're on about.
Apart from that I love you x

GleamingHeels · 05/10/2020 20:10

Thank you for raising your only child to be the wonderful man he was, I miss you, but I hope that you were cared for well-enough by me and your son in your last years.

I am glad that you didn't live to know that your entire tight little family unit with my DH and your husband all died within four years of each other, I think losing my DH would have been even more unbearable for you than it is for me.

I don't believe in life after death, but if I did, I'd want it for the three of you (and me, eventually)

maddiemookins16mum · 05/10/2020 20:15

@GleamingHeels

Thank you for raising your only child to be the wonderful man he was, I miss you, but I hope that you were cared for well-enough by me and your son in your last years.

I am glad that you didn't live to know that your entire tight little family unit with my DH and your husband all died within four years of each other, I think losing my DH would have been even more unbearable for you than it is for me.

I don't believe in life after death, but if I did, I'd want it for the three of you (and me, eventually)

I think I have something in my eye 💐
Menofsteel · 05/10/2020 20:35

@Yipitsme she was amazing and thank you for that beautiful message, I’m grateful you read my post and a wee thought went out to her. I really hope you are loved and appreciated by all around you and they know how special a person they have in you. Someone who takes time out of their day to send a message to a stranger that makes them happy is a fucking gem in my opinion.

moanyhole · 05/10/2020 20:40

Dear MIL. I love you and FIL so much. You are both so funny and kind and I love calling in to you both everyday after work. It breaks my heart MIL that you have been recently diagnosed with dementia. You dont have to try to pretend you remember everything. Its ok. DH and I will take it in turns to stay in your house each night from now on in case you fall again. Its only a pleasure. Xx

Yipitsme · 05/10/2020 20:47

@Menofsteel you are a lovely person Flowers

SentientAndCognisant · 05/10/2020 21:23

You’re not my mil I’m not married but I Love you to bits. You’re incorrigible but we all love your quirks,the facial tics,the tsking, the comments,the Milngavie stare

You’d make Gigi Hadid feel fat & frumpy, if you give her side eye, the pursed lip well, I suppose that’s what passes for looking smart these days

You treat me like a gin soaked trollop if you see me with a wine glass
you always did like a drink

Your askance when dp says he cooked. Moist eyes and hard stare
ohhhh noooooooo, and him working all day tooyou'd not think a working man has to cook for himself

You regularly tell dp so and so from school has a lovely wife
In mil land lovely = housewife

I love that when you go out you hoover up all the condiments and tip them into my bag. Weeks later I’m pulling ketchup out my bag

I catch You looking at the house like it’s a crack den. I see you peeking in cupboards, thinking dirrrrrty as you stare at the house.
Love that you adore the kids

Love your very proper and want a tea cup & saucer

GleamingHeels · 05/10/2020 21:26

@maddiemookins16mum
Me too, there aren't very many spaces to talk about being the only one left who remembers them all and there now being no-one who knew my DH before me.. everyone just says 'but they live on in your memories' and yes, of course they do... but since DH and I were, despite much intervention, unable to have children, I do so feel that I hold my parents-in-law's legacy with no-one to pass it on to.

My MiL was the youngest of eight siblings, my FiL the youngest of ten, both the last survivors but one by the time I married their son thirty three years ago

Argh, sorry, I know this is supposed to be a light-hearted thread

TwoHoots74 · 05/10/2020 21:27

You've made me feel inadequate for the last 17 years. But now. I am free from your life sucking son. I no longer have to see your judgemental face ever again.
Your grandson you've not wanted to know for the last 14 years doesnt give a shit about you and doesn't want to see you either. No doubt your son will make him visit. But he really doesn't want to see you. His wise head has told him you've not wanted to know him so why now. Too little too late were his words.
So fuck you. I'm well rid.

GleamingHeels · 05/10/2020 21:30

@SentientAndCognisant
My Paisley in-laws did raise an eyebrow at my Bearsden background... but they got over it