AIBU to ask for your irritating family stories at Christmas time?

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Bloody MIL has spent this morning making sly digs about my parenting - from accusing me of depriving DD2 by not giving her a bottle (!!) to the way I dress her (i.e., not in girly, flouncy, frilly dresses) to the fact she's vegetarian and now how she doesn't have juice and prefers water...

DP doesn't say anything, but ends up carrying on the digs making me feeling on edge and uncomfortable. They make me feel like an incompetent hippy child with daft ideas.

MIL has never forgiven me for breastfeeding and co-sleeping because she expected to have DD2 overnight as soon as she was born 

Tell me your irritating family stories and keep me sane 

This thread is brill. I actually had a fairly nice time with my MIL on Christmas which I greatly suspect was due to the half bottle of malibu I drank with coke before we even sat down to eat.

To be fair to her she did invite us to her house but we thought it would be easier to have dinner at our house as we have everything set up for our toddler; this is code for "your house is so fucking disgusting I don't even want to make a drink there let alone eat a meal"

Honestly, she has a cat and a dog and when they mess in the kitchen because they've been couped up all day and she hasn't cleaned the litter tray for days she will just sort out the exact spot and nothing else. So when there is piss and shit on the floor and the dogs been walking through it she doesn't think she has to clean the whole floor (or maybe the counter tops cos the cats been up there avoiding the dog)

My husband dropped a little bombshell about his mother on Christmas eve too. when he was two she went out on Christmas Eve and didn't come home until 6pm Christmas day! Surprisingly it took another 6 months before his parents got divorced.

On the bright side of things I never doubted whether my husband would be a good father because by the time I met him he was raising 3 kids anyway...his brothers and sisters.

This thread is amazing.

My xmas would of been lovely, even without the drinking (7 months pregnant) had it not been for my psycho, passive aggressive sister.

Her top performances this year include

• calling me an irresponsible mother as I ate a hard cheddar cheese off the cheese board.
• screeching 'your wrong, your wrong!' When I told her I could eat the hard, pasteurised cheese. Then got her phone to start search NHS choices to try and find evidence.
• threatening to hit my child if she cried at our xmas meal next year.
• after the dinner she drank throughout, got stuck into the rum and cokes, and began mimicking me whenever I said anything.
• my favourite, and most bizarre behaviour of hers, was her screeching ' You think you're Irish!!!' Then a stunning impression of me in a camp high-pitched voice "Oooh, I'm karmacoma1, I think I'm Irish and fabulous" what prompted this? Apparently I once used the clover emoji in a facebook status.

Ended up cutting the visit short and leaving Boxing Day morning as dh was ready to throttle her.

Can't wait till next year!!!!

you think you're Irish 😃

I'm crying laughing! Conspiracy theorists! Evolutionary arguments for lesbians! My Christmas was so dull by comparison!

@mrsjay this quote has already become an inside joke for me, dh and friends.

"Oooh look at you, cutting about the place in a green sweater, THINKING YOU'RE IRISH"

I'm doing baby led weaning with my DD 7m, MIL informed me on Xmas day that if she chokes she'll 'have the police at my door.'
Um ok then 👍🏻

Hehe Karma I think you should put a shamrock as your facebook picture embrace the Irish in you

Total opposite!
I love hosting Christmas and I go all out with food and love cooking. I have MIL, DM, DH and 2 DCs and our two friends.
It was perfect.
House a mess, lots of food, lots of leftovers to feed us for a week, lots of washing!! But most of all lots of fun!

My MIL is awful. I have no idea why we keep inviting her as even DH doesn't particularly like her...

She bought my 19 yo nothing and hasn't done for about 12 years as she perceived him to be ungreatful one year and refused to buy anything since.

She bought 5 of my other boys stuff. None of it was any use (think a Thomas the tank engine book for my 15yo) and then topped it off by buying her 'best' grandson, my 16yo, an expensive watch and giving him £300 in cash

Luckily she does this every year so my boys made all the right noises!

She complained yo DGS was too loud, then too quiet. The food was wrong, she didn't like any of the party games we played, my kids are spoilt, my eldest needs a hair cut, I have put on too much weight (you get the picture!)

Roll on next bloody year...

DAILY MAIL CAN FUCK OFF!!! DAILY MAIL CAN FUCK OFF!!! DAILY MAIL CAN FUCK OFF!!! DAILY MAIL CAN FUCK OFF!!! DAILY MAIL CAN FUCK OFF!!! DAILY MAIL CAN FUCK OFF!!! DAILY MAIL CAN FUCK OFF!!!

Nice one, Daily Mail waiting for my MIL to send a PA message now.

We went to the in laws, my BIL brought me air freshener, yes air freshener for xmas, the MIL got out a bottle of sparkling wine from oz date on it was 1999 thought it was a vintage turns out she'd had it since 1999 it was disgusting 😧👎🏻

Wouldn't it be great if mn deleted (or moved) the thread and left a fuck off daily mail message in its place

@Shadowmane I would LOVE that!

@mummy2be30 what a bunch of arseholes!

Dammit! I was hoping to have a moan.

I've googled Daily Mail and Mumsney though- they really are lazy cunts, aren't they?

I had a great Christmas Day with my husband, parents and in laws and son.

I'm giggling reading this 😊

Only thing that bugged me was when FIL had the tv remote, volume up at 60 and channel flicked for an hour.

Drove the 6 hours it takes to get to in-laws. Phoned when we were an hour away, phoned when we were 10 minutes away, each time get Yes, yes' from mil. Ring the door bell 'ding dong'. And wait. Bang on the glass patio door, ring bell. And wait. Eventually mil comes to door - bell is broken. Why didn't we phone from outside? Then she just had a total meltdown over the prep and timing of the dinner and dh had to step in and take over (fil help? Don't be silly!) she is telling me about her 'hugely fat' cleaner and says 'honestly Reg, she's TWICE the size of you!'

Oops, should have said 'honestly NANCY she's twice the size of you!'

CherryChasingDotMuncher, what is a jewelled privacy partition and why did your grandmother want one?

Boxing day at my in laws is a miserable affair. For a start it could be any day of any week of any month in the year. Christmas day at my parents and my DM makes a huge effort has the house lovely decorated, produces loads of delicious food and makes a real effort to make it Christmassy and special for everyone.

At my in laws you wouldn't even know that it is Boxing day. There was no Christmas tablecloth or napkins or crackers and just a very basic lunch. No special Christmassy touches at all. So in two days we go from one extreme of huge effort to bare minimum effort.

Last year we were supposed to have Boxing day at our own house with just us and DC which I was really looking forward to until DH dropped us right in it with her. He said "she caught me unawares and I didn't like to disappoint her" so we ended up having to go and disappoint me instead.

Also she bought cheap unwanted presents and left the obvious price tags on them. Thanks mil!!

My son was born on christmas morning and everyone in my family forgot. My sister sent a present for my other son - even though his birthday is in April. My dad wanted to come and visit on the 21st after he got his tyres changed on his car but decided to spend christmas by himself.

My DH parents are divorced, so each Christmas I spend it with one or another. My FIL is so lovely, his new wife is the sweetest. Their kids are kind and respectful. But my MIL. She loves to tell me the same stories over and over again about how she was so happy with my FIL and how wonderful their life used to be (they've been divorced for more than 25 years! Just get over it!!)
The good thing is that she cooks delicious.