To vent about MIL

[Moggy72]

Seriously just need to vent ...mil staying with us for a few months ... She is seriously OCD..watches TV all day and DH travels for work most weeks.

Take the batteries out of the remote and set the channel to sports.

Why have you agreed to this?

I love my MIL but 3 days is a hard limit (same for my own parents).

No way I'd have either for months. I'd live on the breadline to pay to alternative accommodation before I'd agree to this.

A few months?

Dear god I hope you have a well stocked wine cellar

Can you stick a TV in her bedroom, tell her the main TV isn't working, and have a blissful time pretending she's not there whilst she stays in her room all day?

Oh my .... Good luck and you are deserving of large wine, chocs, flowers etc etc etc. My MIL at Xmas for 2 days was more than enough and next time I see her its one day only on June .

Before I get flamed I have several friends from work/ neighbourhood/ book group who are all MIL age and they are really lovely and could stay for however long they wanted but she is just hard work and to make it worse my normally lovely DH her only child just leaves her up to me and spends zero time with her if he can.

You are a saint.

Dear God, why? Do you normally get on? Even time spent in such close proximity with people you like can really get on your nerves in the end. Plenty of and !

I had my mil for a couple of months years ago. My house has never been so clean...while she was upstairs I was down and felt guilty about not doing anything so cleaned, when she was downstairs I was upstairs cleaning generally a slob
It wasn't actually as bad as it could have been

We just had MIL for 5 long days and that was about 3 too many!! A couple of months would see me off!!!!

You haven't really vented though have you, is this a general MIL are horrible thread? Given half the chance I would sit and watch TV all day, sounds good to me!

Agree with Yellow

A few months?? Fucking hell, seriously out of order.

Were you consulted about how long she'd be there?

Why is she staying so long?

The only person I've ever been able to stay with for more than a week without it driving me nuts was DH, and I married him.

Jesus wept, woman!
My MIL comes from overseas and stays for two weeks, I have had enough after 3 days. It almost makes me want to move back to her country, just so the visits would not be so long! Although they would probably be more frequent, so swings and roundabouts...

3 days is positively heroic PassA

Fuck me, a few months, and your DH works away from home.

I would move out. Not for the duration of her stay, just straightforward move not live there.

If that doesn't appeal, I know it wouldn't work for everyone, could you talk sense to her, tell her to go out for days etc? If not do as SundaySimmons suggested. Then break open the gin/vodka/vino/all of them.

Good luck.

Why is she staying that long?

Be careful not to make a holiday of it in the first few days as you'll be frustrated when things continue like that for months. Start as you mean to go on. Set routine so she knows what's expected, ask her to do whichever chores you want her to help with etc from day one, as it'll be really difficult to try to change things after a week or two when she's come to think it's ok to just sit there all day.

Do you have kids? Will you be gaining hours and hours of free childcare?

Can you borrow anyone's spare tv so she can have one in her room? Then if you want to watch something else or want the main tv turned off you can offer to bring her a nice cup of tea in her own room so she can watch her programme that she likes and be out of your way for a while...

She will have her own room, won't she?

Really a non starter this thread isn't it