AIBU to ask your worst MIL stories

[Betty1119]

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!

Gosh so so many.

The worst thing she did I suppose is when she barged her way into the delivery room whilst I was in labour, on all fours having contractions (she was a nurse at the same hospital and must have bullied her way in.)

I have a wonderful relationship with my own DIL. I never interfere or comment on their relationship, I respect her position in DS life and I have taken time to get to know her properly as a person.

So I guess I can be grateful to XMIL for showing me how not to do it.

A friends MIL stood outside their bedroom door whilst they were having sex, when she was visiting their home with her DH. MIL kept knocking on the door saying "Matthew! You do love mummy don't you Matthew?"

I have had 2 mils and both of them have been hard work but the reason is the same - they both think the sun shines out of their sons arses

Sorry but some women of a certain age haven't woken up to the fact women aren't here to serve men, hence the woman can do no right. And some women are awfully competitive with other women for no reason other than their insecurities.

@VampireVicki - I just had tea come out my nose! PMSL! God, I hope I don’t meet anyone called Matthew for a few days!

@Livelovebehappy

Mil’s can’t win, no matter what. I’m not a mil yet, but I look to the heavens and pray my ds doesn’t pick anyone remotely like any of the MIL bashers on this thread. It’s a power struggle as lots of women who dislike their mils are control freaks and really don’t like their DPs to have any relationship with their dms at all. I see it amongst friends all the time. It’s very sad.

I'm sure I am in a minority here but I largely agree with you. It seems to be the expectation that on marriage/settling down together the male should cut all ties from his family yet the female will retain her family relationships. He has to agree with (aka 'support') the female even though he has sincerely held differing views. Not all MILs, DILs or SILs are perfect, contribution to the 'horror' tales is that when we told my MIL I was pregnant, we'd been maried for 8 years, her first words were How will you manage his meals when you're in hospital? Did I sob, yell at him to do something about her? No, I quietly laughed, especially at the thought we would be 1200 miles away.