Revenge is best served cold

[yesrevenge]

Yes! I got my revenge. MIL ignored something which was very important for me and Dh. I didn’t show my annoyance then but hoped to somehow pay back. The situation came two months later and I didn’t need to do anything. I am the only person who could have prevented it happening but I did nothing. She must feel same as I did.

My mother in law did some shockingly terrible things over the years, but she was part of my family and when she developed dementia and needed help of course I was there for her. Getting my revenge on the things she did didn’t cross my mind - she was vulnerable, scared, and needed support.

If you didn't plan to elaborate - what was the point of this thread??

Look at Professor Chaos over here.

I think you need to say what it is or you sound very vindictive. It could be anything from her getting a parking ticket to her having a terrible accident

@TempyBrennan It’s the drama Mick, I love it.
😂😂😂😂

That's fun.

I’m a strong believer in what you send out comes back to you so watch yourself with all that glee at your MILs misfortune!

@yesrevenge - 👏👏👏 for a totally pointless thread. You must be so happy. But hey, if it makes you feel better - crack on 🤷♀️

I don't blame you.

My MIL is awful so I feel like I can empathise... and it's true that revenge is best served cold.

What a lovely story. Thank you for sharing with us. I'm sure we can all take something away from this and apply it to our own lives.

🙍

Yeah I’m out.
What an incredible waste of time.

I don't think you'll get positive responses here because you haven't explained, so posters don't know if you are just a spiteful bitch or your MIL was a spiteful bitch who deserved everything she got.

MN doesn't like the idea of stewing and plotting (a life lived well is the best revenge and all that). But if she was a truly nasty person - you mention what she did was unforgivable so I presume also deliberate - and you did nothing to her except passively allow her to be hoisted by her own petard then fair enough in my opinion. Schadenfreude is not quite the same as revenge. (Hope I've used the right word!)

I hear you too, OP. It was ages ago, but someone who’d been vile - had written me what amounted to completely unwarranted poison pen letters (dh said she’s fucking crackers!) - I took no retaliatory action at all, but later achieved something fairly spectacular that I knew she aspired to do too, and I knew she’d be so pissed off at my success.

For anyone disappointed by OP's lack of spill, here's mine:

FIL is DH's stepdad as his dad died when he was a baby. He's the only father DH has ever known and claims every privilege related to that. But he treats his own son with blatant favouritism, such as paying the bill for him in restaurants well into adulthood, whilst DH is asked to pay for himself, separate savings. He's also lied to MIL, and asked DH to lie to her as well to cover things up.

On top of this he was a real prick to me when I was pregnant. Really rude, sneering, and had a go at me for not giving him a lift when I was very ill with HG.

So when it came to naming my son, like fuck was his name going in there. We used my dad's name and MIL's surname (which is also a forename).

The little "oh" he made of surprised dissatisfaction when we told them was fucking priceless.

Without context you sound really sly and vindictive. Why didn't you deal with whatever happened at the time?

No one cares

What a very good dog!

She isn't getting positive responses, for another reason.

Did she murder your children?

Most things would be forgivable, probably millions of annoying things she could do where you would be angry but they would of course be 'forgivable' if you just get over yourself.

Did you feed her death cap mushrooms in a beef Wellington?

🤣

Is anyone else baffled by this post? Ive read all OPs posts but I don’t get it it - or am I just thick?

Did she do that expressly to hurt you? Like you did her? It could be said that you are a worse person than her…

I know, people seem to be aimlessly replying to an empty post...bizarre!