AIBU to ask your worst MIL stories

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My MIL is truly something else!
She really is an evil piece of work and I have no contact with her now and yet she still manages to cause problems!
Please cheer me up with your worst MIL tales because I've seriously lost the restraint not to drop a house on the wicked witch!

My ex-mil told exh to delay the wedding to 'see if I got better' after a stroke as he 'didn't need the burden'

I have an injunction against mine for threats to harm. (Amongst plenttyyy of other stuff - put it this way my neighbours think she’s crazy)

She’s a lovely person.... or so she would have you think. Blocked and deleted out of my life now but sometimes she turns up with her stupid squeaky voice pretending she likes my kids while bitching about them to all who can hear. She’s absolute poison and abused my oh his entire life, she makes me bork thinking about her, ugh

Anyway hope that cheered you up

Have been married for 25 years..my Mil is actually a really lovely lady ..boring and definitely the grandma that my children love but also do not have a connection with!! Definitely no complaints about her !!

Not my MIL ,but an ex bf's Dm.
She was an alcoholic. We had a minor disagreement about something one night and she took a swing at me.
She wasn't the only reason we eventually split, but it didn't help!

A very rare name change, don't care about being outed but bit harsh to the mad old bat...
DD1 is from a 4 yr relationship and was planned. He "wasn't feeling it" (direct quote) - that's outing enough! - when I got to 6mths and saw her once at 3 (due to being in scbu and him not present at hospital) and once at 12 days old. Still lives very local, she's 7 and never seen him. DD2 is with DH who has the loveliest mother.
MIL 1 (gran to 7yr old) was awful. ExP slept until a drawer, was given a sausage(!! Is there a better soft and bendy throat shaped object?!) at something mental like 6months to suck in a high chair and choked - she told me that laughing when I was pregnant- and with his brother she fell asleep with a "lit fag" and set fire to the mattress as he slept in her chest (again, like 6mths). She laughed telling that one too. "Well, it gets even better than that, myname, luckily I woke up to put the fire out and only after I realised I had laid him right at the top of the wooden stairs.. ahaha.. aah..(puffs fag)". There's loads more but it's making me mad 😅

My MIL is lovely tbf. My LG adores her 😊 my mother on the other hand... Theres many a good reason that we have been no contact for nearly 5 years.

I feel very shocked at some of these. My MIL was alright. She was very different to me but we got on OK. We were due to get married and she was in hospital and had been told she probably wouldn't be coming out. We talked about delaying the wedding, and she told us that she would come back and haunt our bedroom if we did. She died on our wedding day. I didn't know her for very long, but she told me I was much better for DH than his ex.

My exmil is batshit crazy.

When i was pregnant she presented me with a list of names she liked and told me to choose.

She insisted that she was going to be there at the birth and was so fixated by it that when i was in labour she tried to tell midwife that she was my mother so she could come in - my mum had been dead several years by that point!

My car once broke down outside her house and she refused to let myself, newborn DS and 2 year old DD wait in her hallway for the AA as she was going out and didnt want a mess made. So we waited for two hours in the rain instead.

She let me marry her son knowing he was a convicted paedophile and 'didn't think' to tell me.

Bow my soon to be Mil is a different story. She's really lovely and has taken me in and welcomed me as one of her own. I really like her and we get on very well. She's lovely.

I reckon my auntie would be up there in line for worst MIL. I feel truly sorry for my cousins wife (and my cousin). She’s so full and of spite and mischief. She literally sits at home glugging down bottles of wine and causing trouble for people. On one occasion she emailed her DIL’s boss, friends and parents saying what a slag DIL is. I’m NC with said auntie but I hear what she’s been up to from other family members and I feel really sorry for her DIL.

My current MIL has a horrendous temper - she hit my DW in the head with a rock when she was 7 (she was being too slow tidying her shoes away) and fractured her skull. She’ll happily tell everyone it’s because DW was being naughty. DW has scaring on the brain, directly under a healed skull fracture and developed epilepsy after she was attacked.

She’s a thoroughly unpleasant person and we limit the time we spend with her, which leads to lots of passive aggressive texts about how she doesn’t know what she’s done wrong.

My ex MIL and FIL went on holiday as “he’s had such a difficult year and needs the break” despite knowing we were turning off DDs life support that weekend. It took me a long time to forgive that.

My mum on the other hand is a fabulous MIL - she genuinely loves and cares about her DIL and SIL and treats us all (blood and married in) with respect and love. She also tries very hard to treat her children and grandchildren equally (although I suspect my niece is slightly her ‘favourite’ as she’s recently had a beautiful baby so my mum is now a great grandma*) and always has done.

• lighthearted tongue in cheek comment.

I no longer have contact with my MIL.

Even my dh hates her.

She was really abusive to him growing up, but she adamant she had changed so we gave her a chance.

She hated me. Always had done. I wasn’t good enough, and I was taking away her support.

She stole money left right and centre from my dh when he was growing up. Even raiding his piggy bank

When I had a miscarriage, she wrote a suicide note and took an “overdose”. I genuinely don’t think she took enough as when we called the paramedics, she refused to go with them and she’s still living now.

She did this as the attention was on me and not her

The last straw was when she accused my dh of abusing our dc as we had stopped her from seeing them after dd told us that her nanny had been hitting her.

She’s an awful awful woman.

My ex mil only wanted grandsons, so when I had my 1st daughter she was obviously disappointed. However she was fine until my ex sill had a son. He was so clearly her favourite but the crunch came at Xmas when she bought my daughter a tacky gift whilst spending a fortune on my nephew.

Horrible thread - bragging over who has worst MIL.

I don’t see mine much so I won’t bash her and she’s good to us but isn’t really involved but my best friend’s MIL is an odd one who bought my BF a very unique Christmas present last year- a piece of gammon

Mine hasnt made any effort to see my children in 2 years......she lives 20 min away.

Well I'm looking forward to NoSauce finding this thread.

@Blippolbblopp Regardless of what she said, you cannot deprive your kids of a grandmother just because she said something nasty about you! You have no right.
My Mum did & said some abhorrent things to me but she is my daughter's only grandparent and is a very bloody good one! She's a far better grandmother than she was a Mother. It's called learning from your mistakes.
This is not about you. There is no harm in allowing Supervised contact for a while to test the waters and see how she is with them. There are many ways of enabling contact and allowing them to have a great relationship whilst still protecting them from their abusive father.

@GPatz Why? Genuinely curious

Daddystilllost

Because she appears on most MIL threads and I find her responses to MIL bashing both balancing and entertaining.

My ex MIL used to go to our home when we were on holiday to clean (we didn’t want her to, just asked her to take out the mail and water the plants but she was stubborn and did it anyway, though I made sure my home was pristine before we left). One time she really went overboard and reorganizated my whole wardrobe closet. I was livid that this woman went trough my underwear!

Oh and my current MIL has not visited us and our small baby for 3 months because she got angry after we kindly and repeatedly asked her to support his head when she held him (she was quite careless about this with my newborn). She completely freaked out over the phone to DH out of nowhere and expects us to apologise.

Fuck me. I can’t believe the amount of people to have given you decent answers when this is your interesting first post.

I will say however I nearly got married to a family where I would have loved my mil she was lovely the whole family was except the son I was dating he was a shit head but she was lovely

When my SIL recently told her she had a few years to live MIL asked if she was still coming for dinner and then said she should get tested as she thinks she has the same thing and she's sure it isn't serious... It is

Nasty thread. There are usually two sides to any story. Hope all you perfect DILs don’t have sons.