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To think horrible SILs have taken over horrible MILs

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Dollymixtureyumyum · 14/03/2016 22:30

I hate my SIL she is totally batshit crazy but until i came on here I did not realise how common it was. There seems to be at least three SIL threads a day. What has happened to trigger to rise of the batshit Sister in law Grin

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Witchend · 11/07/2016 17:24

None of my sil are crazy. One has totally different values to the rest of us and likes to be dominant, which is at times very eye rolling when she's telling dh's family that they WILL all obey her idea/tradition/something else. It's particularly eye rolling when she's very wrong or when she basically expects everyone else to do the donkey work/pay and her to take the credit. MIL falls for that rubbish. Fil rolls his eyes with the best of them.
However although I would never choose to spend time with her, she isn't at the avoid at all cost level.

Reality · 11/07/2016 17:30

Oh yes my SIL is fabulously bonkers.

She refused to visit us in our first house because they lived in a flat and she couldn't bear it.

Came to my 'black tie' 30th dressed in a tracksuit with a beanie hat on and unwashed hair (she's the type to wear full makeup and accessories to go to Tesco, usually).

Wouldn't come to the spa part of my hen do because she couldn't afford it (£60) but came to the evening do and told everybody several times that her new top had cost £60. When we did a group photo she stood up and turned her back.

Didn't want her DS to be our page boy as he wouldn't want to wear a suit. Brought him to the wedding wearing a suit, and eating a cornetto all the way through our vows.

Heckled the speeches and then announced her recent miscarriage to the room.

Then cornered me for an hour on the balcony while she cried about how terrible her life is.

She has mellowed in the last ten years but is still batshit.

And I'm the one with the MH issues! Grin

Heatherplant · 11/07/2016 17:36

My sil is a nice quiet girl who just loves her children and gets on with life. She works in a caring role that I certainly wouldn't have the patience for and I admire her for that. This obviously means I am the bat shit crazy one, but I like to think I'm not awful with it just eccentric.

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