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Does anyone else have a perfect sister in law!?

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wildfellhall · 28/12/2024 10:17

Now I don't want to get a kicking from the usual meanies; I just wonder if there's anyone out there with a superstar sister in law that you love and who loves you but you end up feeling the inevitable deflation at the comparison others must make.

Please don't tell me I'm insecure and/or jealous. I'm looking for genuine empathy - not for the stating of the obvious!

I don't want to ID us so I will not describe her glories. Suffice to say - you know if you have one!

I will get over it by tomorrow.

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Twaddlepip · 10/02/2025 09:55

Gettingslimmer · 10/02/2025 09:06

Mine is horrific. She was never great but for the last decade it is unbearable. She has early onset arthritis and is now obese, which has caused her pain. But she bullies everyone, shouts, says horrific things to your face, belittles you, and is constantly angry. And we all take it. Because if you stand up to her, she goes and goes and goes, she will rip your jugular out. I know, I did it once. Never again. She won’t stop attacking. I’ve genuinely never seen anything like it. The fury and twisted face.

in calmer moments she will say how angry she is all the time. But I suspect a lot of the problem is we let her get away with it, we all just look the other way or agree, pretend it’s not happening, appease her. Her husband gets the worst of it. He just gets drunk or goes to work/plays golf so he is out the house and away from her. He comments on how challenging it is now for him to live with her.

it’s getting to the stage I don’t wish to be near her. She’s a horrible horrible person. My husband is the same, he is struggling with her abuse, but we also don’t wish to break the family apart. So we are stuck that when we do see her, we need to put up with it. She starts off nice, but within an hour, she’s abusive. And it escalates.

so give me a perfect one any day of the week, and I will swap you with the utter horror we are dealing with.

Jesus, she sounds awful. What would happen if you laughed in her twisted face and pointed out how insane she was being and how she was appearing? Not kind perhaps, but might it snap her out of her vitriolic attacks?

ThatsNotMyTeen · 10/02/2025 09:56

I have 3 SILs, I get on with them all but the one who is married to my husband’s brother is genuinely one of the loveliest people you could ever meet. I don’t think she has a bad or mean bone in her body.

NormasArse · 10/02/2025 09:58

I came on to say yes!! I couldn’t have handpicked a better one!

But I don’t ever feel competition. Then again, I rarely do with anyone- I am what I am!

And I’m lucky that my SIL loves me as I am 😁.

BlondiePortz · 10/02/2025 09:59

Well no one I have ever met is perfect including myself but yes I do

Nothatgingerpirate · 10/02/2025 10:18

Yes.
She doesn't exist 😜

JandamiHash · 10/02/2025 10:20

Does anyone else have a perfect sister in law!?

Yes. My SIL Grin

Puttingoutfireswithgasoline · 10/02/2025 10:23

No, mine isn’t!
I don’t judge (try not to…) what other people do but she’s one of those who encourages drinking and smoking in pregnancy like it’s a badge of honour not giving in to the midwives… never been able to view her the same way.
She has taken this approach into her parenting too. No vaccinations etc

overthinkersanonnymus · 10/02/2025 10:26

I love my SIL (husband's sister). she's also become very good friends with my sister too, and we all a good time together. I do think of her as a second sister, so I do also moan about her like a real sister 😂

She gave us our beautiful nephew, so I love her for that alone.

Poppymeldrum · 10/02/2025 10:44

One of mine thinks she's perfect

She never spends money-on anything but thinks if you spend 1p,she can scream at you for spending your own money (ds had to throw her out of his flat once as she sat on his sofa,screaming at him for daring to pay his gas bill)

She isn't fat,but not thin-but thinks she has the perfect figure and the best taste in clothes

She's the best at anything she turns her hand to

Has a hell of a temper,but don't you dare react as she's not spent 10 minutes screaming at you-youve come at her from nowhere and she's innocent and the victim

Thinks she's a perfect parent but doesnt have kids (hell,she hates kids and her made up methods are abusive)

Thinks she's the best at her job-shes really not

Thinks her taste in anything is the best and don't you dare have different taste

Lies and gaslights

Thinks she's the most beautiful woman in the world (she's not)

The list is endless-she's a bully

I've never met her,I wouldn't know who she is if I fell over her in the street but she seems to think it's OK to hate me and slag me off to anyone who will listen

She knows nothing about me,but will make up issues about me and slag me off,based on those lies (it gets back to me and I think it's hilarious)

My brother encourages her apparently (our mother is a narcissistic bitch,so he's married one)

FelixtheAardvark · 10/02/2025 11:26

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Lurkingandlearning · 10/02/2025 12:44

squashyhat · 28/12/2024 10:46

I don't but my sister-in-law does.

😂😂

MammaTo · 10/02/2025 12:58

Yes 100%! Best personality to be around. Has an awesome career, 3 lovely kids that are growing up to be great teens. Just to top it off she is super pretty, slim and petite, does the whole pilates, hyrox thing etc. I've tried to divert my thinking to “what would SIL do” rather then be envious (which I admittedly have been in the past).

ShinyWorthKeeping · 10/02/2025 13:10

I have 2. I barely know one, the other used to be lovely but since I had a baby with her brother she's turned into a right bitch.

discdiscsnap · 10/02/2025 13:20

My sil definitely isn't perfect (nor am I) I do sometimes resent the amount of help her and bil get off both sets of grandparents. But it doesn't help tbh

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