To ask about your worst CF MIL stories?

[MessyMummy15]

I'm actually very lucky to have a lovely mother in law now but my ex's mum was something else!

Once when I had to move in with her temporarily for a couple of week. I had taken my first shower in the house. Afterwards she came to find me and frogmarched me to the bathroom telling me that she doesn't like the shower curtain getting wet and to fold it back when I'm showering which is already 🤔
The next time I had a shower I did as she asked and then asked her where I could find a mop / towel to clean the water on the floor (since you know... there's no shower curtain) she had the biggest flip out when she discovered there was a smal puddle on the floor and the bathroom mat was a bit wet.
She also told me that I wasn't allowed to use the towels as they was for display? (Wasn't going to they was about a million years old)
She proceeded to tell my ex that I was trying to destroy the house. Baffles me to this day how she washed??

That woman has made me sooo thankful for the MIL I have now!

What's your CF MIL stories? The crazier the better!!

My Ex Mil and ExGmil didn't approve of me taking my Ex away from them. Despite their hostility and claims that they wouldn't attend the wedding they did adorned in their best suits (one in bright turquoise and the other in lilac) and my Ex SIL talked all the way through the ceremony.
Following the wedding service and photographs they plonked themselves in the wedding car that was to take my Ex and I to the reception hotel and had to be ''encouraged'' out by our Best Man.
We placed them sat together on the traditional top table and halfway through the Best Man's speech they both stood up,stated they were leaving as going as the dog needed feeding and duly marched out.
The writing was obviously on the wall that one day their Son was going to be my Ex!!
I have to say that many years later and after 2 children all was forgotten and we were very close. Never had an apology though.

Step-Mother In law stayed a few times with FIL to look after children when DH and I had to travel. She rifled through our bedroom, through every drawer and cupboard and found my lingerie and some objects in a box under our bed and left us a note saying 'sex is for reproduction only', ordered me to get rid of my 'slutty' lingerie and The Box and moved my things into a spare room saying we needed to sleep alone so DH wouldn't get 'sexual urges'. A certain item was missing from The Box though so perhaps she wasn't as sin-free as she liked to think... She also left a bible on the side for us and invited us to speak to her vicar to get help.

SMIL also disapproved of DH (her step-son) because he has tattoos and a beard which she called 'unprofessional'. He's retired and runs our working farm so it's hardly an issue to his career! She even bought him a shaver and sent him youtube videos of people shaving off their beard so he'd know how to do it. She also offered to pay for laser removal of his tattoos (former tattoo artist so he's covered head to toe and would likely come out looking slightly mangled if he had that much laser removal!).

We have 4 children who she asked if we regretted having. She also criticised me for having a child so young with an older man (her SS, my DH) as I'd thrown my life away. She also pulled my top up once to see how my stomach was 3 weeks post partum from baby no.4.

She also once phoned the police saying she witnessed my DH abusing me and threatening to kill me when all she'd seen was him smacking my arse lightly as he passed me in the kitchen. She hid in the garden when the police arrived and we had no idea what was happening. She later explained that she was uncomfortable with how DH being older than me meant he had more power over me and I was clearly being abused as he was able to hit me and I couldn't do anything as I was scared he'd lash out at me.

She got back in contact a few months ago as she'd heard I had an inheritance and said she hadn't received her share of it yet. The inheritance was a doll's house from my great aunt and the grand sum of £100. I sent her £2.50 for a giggle

Sorry for the long post but jeepers that felt good to get off my chest!

@Horlicks4me, sorry to hear that but middle surprised they wore colours and neither all white or all black for the traditional bride-hating message.

Ive posted about this before. Same thing happened twice.

First time we came back from holiday and noticed that tubs that should have had plants in were empty. We couldn't believe that someone had stolen plants until mil asked if we were pleased she had weeded the tubs!! It had obviojsly been pre planned as she doesnt drive so either roped fil in or carried gardening tools on 2 buses each way...

Forward a few years. Return from holiday. First noticed that the wheelie bins were in a different place. Then that the whole garden had been decimated with shrubs removed. Initially she denied it but then admitted she had paid someone to do it, in her mind she had told the truth that she hadn't done it as she hadn't qielded the spade herself!! All because a few weeks earlier she had been leaving and mentioned a shrub in the front garden and I said I wasn't keen on it...so she decided to remove it and several others! I may not have liked it much but that didn’t mean I wanted it removed!!

I’m really lucky. My mil is the best.

My husband’s though ... not so much.

@cricketmum84 I wondered for a minute if your MIL is my maternal aunt (she does the same, always has. She got her DD to try her size 8 trousers standing on the lounge table when we were teens so we could all see how slim she was), but my cousin has kids now, so can't be.
I am very sorry, there are some mad people out there.

My MIL is a ray of sunshine though.

@johnstownflood

I'm guessing you're not a MIL yourself yet OP ? I'm not either and I think I'm a pretty nice person but there is so much vitriol on MN against MILs that I'm feeling quite nervous at the prospect.

Surely there must be some DILs that actually like their MIL ?

I adored my late MIL. She taught me how to be a good MIL.

I offer advice only when asked. I leave sleeping babies asleep lol. I don’t tell her ‘how I did it’ and I love them loads for loving my gorgeous but still flawed sons.

She's well meaning but she dug out all the plants from my garden she thought were dangerous to DS1 while we were away. They always do it when you are on holiday.

I have to say 90% of the time, I love my MIL dearly. She looks after the kids on short notice and even ferried me around when I was too pregnant/ill to drive.

The only time I've ever gotten annoyed at her was when I had asked her to look after the kids at my house. This was because she had other relatives stopping, who's kids had the chicken pox. I was met with "But they aren't contagious anymore, everything has scabbed over." And so they went to hers as I felt I couldn't really say no, I needed to work and had no one else. Yeah, 2 weeks later both my kids looked like something out of a medical textbook.

Family gathering at my then boyfriends house (now DH) at Christmas MIL went round the room and gave everyone a present including other girlfriends and boyfriends of her other children and when she came to me said "sorry didn't get you one" I hadn't expected a present but felt really embarrassed. 20+ years on I still think it was cruel thing to do, I was only a teenager at the time.

My mil, despite being wealthy as I mentioned, came over and gave my DD who has sn, 50p. My DD thought this meant £50 and was excitedly planning all the things she could buy. Like I said we were skint so I couldn't even cover it myself so had to try to explain to my DD that it was barely enough to buy a packet of sweets.

Mine buys me things in the wrong size on purpose then when I tell her she says 'oh never mind give it back and ill give it to one of the other daughter in laws' she definitely does it on purpose and now I just keep the stuff and say nothing.
She also stole my jewellery and claimed she was going to get it fixed only for someone to have stolen it from her!
She gave every other daughter in law gold jewellery when they had babies but I've never had anything for when I had my 3.

Well, this is a nasty thread isn't it. "The crazier the better"?

Good luck to all of you who might be MILs in the future.

barmyfarmy you have the best craziest MIL. Someone that batsh&t must provide endless amusing anecdotes...Not so much fun at the time I'm sure. Have you thought of stocking up with some watchtower to thrust upon her when she starts off on her religious nuttiness?

Not MIL but toxic FIL. Countless things, he openly dislikes me and I have asked him why but he just says he can't remember. Seriously. Last time we tried to clear the air he ended up asking DH to pick sides what a dickhead. Obviously DH chose me. I'm always amazed that FIL managed to produce such an awesome man as DH. Puzzling!

My mil was a lovely lady, never had a bad word about her and I know if she was here now she would be a fantastic nan to her grandchildren.

@FuzzyPuffling to be fair that is something that is always going through my mind, I really hope I'm a nice MIL! I will obviously try my best and things are in my favour as I am not at all like FIL so hopefully already on the right trajectory.

when I got the bag home I found she’d got her other son to spunk/shit all over them. We moved about half hour away,to a bigger house and she refused to have anything to do with them

she got her son to masturbate to ejaculation and then defecate on your babies clothes and you gave her the chance to refuse to see your children?! what part of you wouldnt have rang the police and then banned them both from your lives?

MIL lives overseas and doesn’t speak English. One year we took my DM with us on the annual trip. Their bathroom has no lock and MIL repeatedly went in while DM was trying to shower (didn’t go in when anyone else was there). One morning she got into bed with DM. DM wont go back.

Had a one year old and 28 weeks pregnant, and DH was planning on cooking the whole Christmas dinner.

In the morning, DH was violently ill, so couldn't do much of anything and was confined to being in bed.

MIL insisted on not changing plans, proceeded to watch me do all of the cooking without even once offering help, or even playing with the one year old, drinking all of the champagne as, 'otherwise would go to waste...'

Did a reasonable job, drove her home and she said, 'it was a good effort...'

My DP mum is beyond lovely. She stayed with us 2018 for a week (unexpectedly she had become ill on her way to us) not a problem. Towards the end of the week she felt better and cleaned and tidied the house for me while I was at work (respecting our privacy by not going into our bedroon) and she was worried I would be offended bless her , I hugged her thanked her and told her she was bloody wonderful.

Exmil though ....hah she was a doozy.

Whilst in hospital having ds1 , firstly expected exdh to miss my c section to drive to London pick her up , return her so that she would be there to meet the baby, all leaving me alone to you know have the baby whilst I'd been on an insulin drip and in hospital for 9 days .

Finally got to the hospital to see ds1 and told me to get the fuck off the bed ( my hospital bed to be clear ) so she could lay down .

When coming to visit ds1 at the house in very early newborn days exdh had her in the car and had phoned me on hands free for some reason (can't remember why) and she yelled (knowing perfectly well I could hear ) that I had better get off my ass and make them something decent for lunch as she was making the effort to visit.

She got told where to go for that one.

Less than 6 months later ds1 and I were no contact. She was banned from meeting ds2 (there had been a safeguarding issue in between ).

Ergh i do not miss that witch.

@FuzzyPuffling

Well, this is a nasty thread isn't it. "The crazier the better"?

Good luck to all of you who might be MILs in the future.

I hope to be a kind and caring mother in law.

I certainly will never ever treat my sons partners in the same horrific way my MIL has treated me.

Some people are just horrible people. Some of those horrible people have children. And then people like me end up stuck with horrible mother in laws.

@willloman

barmyfarmy you have the best craziest MIL. Someone that batsh&t must provide endless amusing anecdotes...Not so much fun at the time I'm sure. Have you thought of stocking up with some watchtower to thrust upon her when she starts off on her religious nuttiness?

Thankfully she's no longer in the picture as she and FIL have divorced. My actual MIL is the loveliest lady I know so I'm very lucky in that respect.

SMIL certainly gave us plenty of stories to laugh at! The religious nuttiness made us laugh at the time thankfully... I'm pretty sure rifling through drawers, stealing belongings and lying to the police isn't pure Christian behaviour though!

BAck in the 90s my Exboyfriend went into mandatory army service for 2 years across the whole country.
It was terrible as were very much in love, young lovers etc..
His mum always hated me, saying I’m not good enough for her perfect son- compared him to a prince and me to a maid.
The reality was his mum always though herself as middle class thought they were the same as my family.
Anyway when he was in the army service- I had a chance to visit him. I was so happy and excited.
I called his mum saying that I’m going to see him soon and in the end of what seemed as a great phonecall, she told me not to bother, that he getting close to a colonel’s daughter so he won’t be interested in me anymore.
It was so painful to hear that.
I still remember staring on the phone receiver in my hand thinking what she just said..
I went to see him, all was ok, though we spoilt up shortly after he returned back from the army as he went to abroad.

My mother-in-law is ace, however she has dementia and probably doesn't have long left.I hope my children -in-law feel the same about me.