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Would you be offended?

38 replies

Maisy313 · 30/05/2016 10:21

Mil has just gleefully informed me that seeing 'me and dh have children and what it does' my bil has gone from wanting children to not wanting them. My bil has every right to have whatever conversation he wants with his mum but aibu to think it shouldn't be repeated back to me in front of my children and that it's clearly a hurtful thing to say? She's also taken a load of photos of my first thing this morning, before I've had a chance go get dressed or brushed teeth (I'm never normally included in photos) and just made a weird mimicking sound when I asked her not to and said it's too late I've already got four.

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byjimminey · 30/05/2016 11:36

Goodness. DO you have to stay there? Have you asked her why she is taking your photo? How odd she sounds! Have you done something to annoy her and she is trying her best to make you leave pronto???

SapphireStrange · 30/05/2016 11:42

To the comments: 'How very rude.'

To the photos: 'Please stop.' MIL: 'Oh, I've already taken 4.' You: 'Please delete them. And no more.'

And tell your DH to tell her to stop.

She's an arsehole.

Waltermittythesequel · 30/05/2016 11:46

I'm obviously in a minority but I don't think BIL's comments were terrible.

Sounds like a joke.

As for the photos, I don't really understand what's happened!

Nataleejah · 30/05/2016 11:47

I'd start making comments to her every time they advertise a funeral plan on tv

Mycraneisfixed · 30/05/2016 11:53

I had to read OP twice as I couldn't quite believe what I'd read! How offensive this MIL sounds. Awful woman. Go home asap and don't visit her again. I'm a MIL to daughters' husbands and son's wife and would never be so rude.

SapphireStrange · 30/05/2016 11:53

It's not really BIL's comments that are the problem (and OP does say this); it's MIL repeating them to the OP, seemingly for the purposes of winding her up.

Topseyt · 30/05/2016 12:03

I'm with CotedAzure.

BIL's comments about no longer wanting children wouldn't have bothered me.

MIL taking photos when I didn't want to be photographed would have infuriated me though, and I would have made sure she knew that.

pictish · 30/05/2016 12:06

I agree the comments from bil in themselves are not the point, it's the salacious passing on of the info in order to rankle.

diddl · 30/05/2016 12:19

Is she trying to cause trouble between you, your husband & BIL?

eddielizzard · 30/05/2016 12:34

yeah i also wouldn't be offended.

i had kids 10 years after my sister and she spent those entire 10 years telling me what torture having dc's was, alternating with pressuring me to have them.

it is hard and i think your bil is seeing the hard part. what he doesn't see is the fleeting but incredibly intense good bits.

SapphireStrange · 30/05/2016 12:37

I think people are still missing the point.

OP doesn't mind BIL's sentiments; she objects to her MIL 'gleefully' passing them on to her.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 30/05/2016 12:38

I'd be furious about photo's being taken as you describe, she's really trying to get your back up.

eddielizzard · 30/05/2016 17:34

yes, i did miss the point.

your mil is being a plonker. why are you in her house? can't you leave?

(misses point again)

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