AIBU to be fuming with MIL

[Belgianbuns]

I am so angry right now with not only my MIL but also my DH for the way in which he backs down to her. We are currently on holiday and MIL has been constantly ringing just to ask how DH is and how is the holiday going. Yesterday whilst we were out for dinner she rang 13 times! When we returned to our villa we saw the missed calls and DH was genuinely concerned something was wrong. But no, she just wondered what we were doing. DH had a pleasant convo wth her but I was a little put out that she had repeatedly rang in a 2 hour period. Tonight we were having a little sleep before going out, It was 6.30pm. All of a sudden his phone starts ringing, At first he ignored it but she continued to just ring and ring until he answered (very politely and much nicer than I would have). She wanted to know if we had seen any sharks ffs. I was fuming but he cannot bring himself to ever say anything to her at all. We are both 57 with our own grandchildren so not like we are teenagers. AIBU to want DH to stand up for himself and tell her no once in a while?

Likethebattle exactly. It always chit chat like what have we had for dinner! I can tolerate it to a certain extent, DH adores his mum and is really a mummy’s boy at heart ( I call him Timothy and tell him to get back in his box room!) 😂 Ronnie Corbett in Sorry for those too young to remember 😂

Haha, yes it sounds a bit like a scene from Sorry! (Loved that series).

My MIL is very involved with our family, but no way would she ring us on holiday. We ring when we arrive and perhaps once why we are there and that’s it till we get home.

Could your DH tackle it with his mum sensitively, perhaps say you aren’t taking mobiles with you, or I will ring you mum. I can completely understand why it would get on your nerves.

She sounds nuts.. she sounds unstable.. she sounds insane.. she sounds controlling... she sounds obnoxious.. she sounds WTF is normal about this behaviour FFS

imagine a Man doing this.... are we still whimpering.. he's just lonely ?

How did she cope when you went away before mobiles?

I second/third/fourth him switching it off.