Tell me your funny IL tales

[Frankola]

Sometimes I really can't help but think that my DHs family are genuinely insane 😂

My SIL is currently playing a game of "hide the wedding date".

So the story here is that she has booked her wedding. Announced this on Facebook (obviously). And asked my DH, her brother, to be a part of the groomsmen.

DH said lovely, yes and asked what date the wedding was. She is genuinely, honestly, no word of a lie refusing to tell him?!!!

How can he agree to a date he doesn't know? Why would she hide this?! 😂

It's almost as funny as them turning up to our wedding with a full tin foil packed picnic as they didn't know if a hotel venue booked for the entire day would provide food? 😒

Or the time that my DH hurt his back back was bed bound for a week. His mum and sister turned up and took over the house. Insisting on doing everything for DH and in turn insisting I do everything for them! This ended up with them telling everyone who'd listen that they had to "come to help care" for DH, making out I did nothing for him in that time. Well obviously I didn't when they made it so I was relegated to waiting on THEM hand and foot instead!

Do I have the strangest ILs? Please say it isn't so?!

My MIL had a go at me because I knew something about my nephew getting a car before she did. I walked out because we had just travelled for 16 hours back from holiday and went to see her before we had even gone home or had a shower!
When we were looking for a house, she shouted at my DH saying that we were just trying to move away from her (she lives 10 minutes away, my family live an hour away). She had been to our house four times in 6yrs!
When she was told we were getting married, she asked my DH why, because we hadn’t been together that long (we had been together for 5yrs and brought a house together).
When we confirmed we had booked the wedding, she was upset as it only 7 months after my SIL’s, and she asked us to push it back.
She then accused us of not telling her the date of the wedding, as I had popped her invite through her door as she was away when I took it round. And said we were trying to sneak the wedding in.
She had a face on her all through the ceremony. Didn’t smile at all.
We had brought her flowers to give her at the wedding, as we had for my Nan and aunt (my mum had passed away so wasn’t there) and she made my husband tell everybody at our wedding that she was gifting her flowers to her sister and BIL, as it was their 50th wedding anniversary in a few days and she was going to be staying with them, so wouldn’t be able to keep them! I was so angry and all evening everybody was telling me how rude she was to do it!
However she is getting a bit better. 8yrs+ in and I think she is starting to like me.

FIL said he had a great gift for me and my SIL ...one each!

It was a fly swat 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

SIL said that my DH and I better not be getting an extension (we were) because she had been wanting a conservatory for 10 years

I have a friend whose MIL calls their dd by a different name, think Helen but calls her Heather, dd is 19!!! Doesn't make the mistake with dgc's from her dd though.

Dh went all out for engagement ring, wanted a stone with a story and to design the ring himself. Dmil told him to get one from a well known jewellery shop, h.s as I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Told her I was going to a wedding fair with gf's and she told dh that I should get a department store gown instead.
Apparently no one needs wedding favours, flowers at the venues etc.
Complained my dm had better arrival at the Church photos.

She has three sons and had saved her wedding dress for their future wives, no thanks!
She can be lovely and thoughtful but I've since learnt it's all calculated.

My MIL is lovely. The first time I met her she said to me that her MIL had been a nightmare and she’d worked hard to have a good relationship with DH’s late first wife. She was very heavily involved helping him with his DS so she said “I will probably annoy you and I might overstep. It’s because I’m used to doing a lot. Tell me please and we’ll discuss it and sort it”. I said the same in return and we did have a few awkward chats, but it was great. She lives with us now.

First time I met DH’s Granny I knew why she was like that. Big family event - FIL was one of 15 - and she pipes up “I saw FIL’s school sweetheart yesterday. She’s aged beautifully looked at MIL over her glasses unlike some... I still have hope she’ll be family one day”. PIL had been married for 38 years at that point.

At the same family event she said “Oh that will be the grandson bombed out now there’s two new granddaughters” when MIL showed her clear affection for my two daughters by, well, offering them a drink. (At the next family event when FIL offered them a drink first she said “is that one not even bothering to make an effort with those girls because they’re not blood relations?”)

When FIL had a bad accident at work MIL called DH and BIL. While they were on the phone DH told MIL I was at the shops near Granny’s so suggested he call me and ask me to go and tell her in person and bring her to the hospital as she can’t drive. That was badged as MIL not bothering to call her and leaving it to me.

She’s hideous to all her children’s partners, and to her daughters as well. Her four sons were the be all and end all.

She has mellowed in her late 90s. I think out living 5 of her children has softened her. I’m amazed MIL still visits her tbh, I’m not sure I would.

@wishes1111

MIL regularly shows me herself naked to get my opinion on if she's lost weight. She eats dinner in her dressing gown naked underneath at the dinner table. Even when we go over for dinner. I've told DH it makes me uncomfortable to keep seeing her naked bur he said "urggggh" and refuses to get involved so I don't really know how to approach it.

We got engaged, her and her partner got engaged 2 weeks later. Had the same ring as mine but pointed out to everyone that hers was platinum and mine was white gold.

Booked their wedding for 3 weeks before mine, my family were fuming 😂

I've had 10 miscarriages and she continuously asks me when we are going to try again as she would like a grandchild, well I do apologise that my body keeps failing me.

I could go on....

I had a naked MIL too. Only at her holiday home but... very naked a lot.

I'd forgotten about that. She was lovely in all other respects.

When I was at work my (ex)MIL spray painted our toilet a different colour (!) without asking. In the process she also sprayed the bathroom wall!

I was so flabbergasted when I came home, that I burst out laughing. I was actually furious but felt I couldn’t say so. She then told me I was ungrateful for not thanking her. Barmy!!

DS was admitted to hospital at about 4 weeks old with a chest infection. He was hooked up to various antibiotics and had had a lumbar puncture. It was horrible as he was so tiny. When we told ILs he was poorly, FIL said, “oh! I bet he gave me this stinking cold!”

They’d been to visit and had both come down with colds.

@Dugi3

My charming MIL moved her table place setting at our wedding whilst we were having our photographs taken to sit right beside my DH, clung on to his arm throughout his speech making under breath shrugs of disagreement when he dare compliment me. It was only then that I noticed she had the cheek to move her place! The disgust on her face was so bad throughout the day that our photographer suggested she be cut out.....she doesnt feature in our album happily! Side note...she took all the wine supplied by us off everyone elses table, full bottles at the end of the meal, brought them to the dance room and got so drunk she tried it on with the best man, in her head I guess she was dancing like beyonce, in reality it was a car crash

WTAF

That's awful 😳🙄

Ils called round on route to town. Apparently fil needed some new swim wear for their imminent holiday.. Fil wanted speedo type but mil didn't know why as he had not much to keep in a pair...
Not envy..

My SIL ran out the house screaming and crying when DH told our in-laws of our engagement. MIL law said DH should break the engagement when I developed epilepsy.
MIL and SIL called my mum a bitch during the wedding rehearsal and were overheard by my aunt who tapped her on her shoulder and told them to watch their months
My MIL once sent a message to SIL when we were on holiday saying they are enjoying the holiday despite me trying to ruin it with epileptic fits.

She lent me her phone and just as was about the dial a message from SIL popped up saying “I don’t know how you are putting up with the bitch and her fits but then again I don’t know how my brother has put up with her for so long, I think she fakes them for attention”
I then looked at the previous message.

Oh and her and FiL have not mentioned any of my 5 misscarrages to me or offered any sympathy. It’s like they did not happen.

My mil is Italian and doesn’t have the best English. They came to stay while we were newly weds.
After some quiet morning sex, we got up to this from my mil.
“Did the big cocks wake you up? The cocks woke me up.”

She meant the huge flock of cockatoos that was destroying my garden outside but honestly I still die with laughter at the memory of the look on DH’s face. (And I still refer to them as Cocks to Dh)

SIL wouldn’t talk to DH after we got engaged, she was angry that she hadn’t been informed beforehand. Didn’t speak to us for a week and then called us to say that she had also now got engaged, a week later!

@NamechangeApril21

My MIL never refers to me by name when talking about me or introducing me. It was always "DHs second wife". She's now dropped the "second" since I started referring to DH as my first husband.

You made me laugh @NamechangeApril21. Well played.

On one of his first visits to us FIL took a wrong turn and got lost. If you were ever in a car with him near where we live he would show you what wrong turn he took and where he got lost. For 20 years.

@FakeColinCaterpillar

On one of his first visits to us FIL took a wrong turn and got lost. If you were ever in a car with him near where we live he would show you what wrong turn he took and where he got lost. For 20 years.

Sounds like my MIL. Has told me a million times about how she and FIL went along to watch the bride going in when DH was a best man at a wedding. Such a non story but she obviously thinks it is interesting enough to keep bringing it up 😂

I’m laughing at the lack of Cornwall parking & murderous cats just looking for any excuse to bump off babies.

A friend of mine was uninvited by her mil to her sil wedding as my friend's baby son had recently died & people may make more fuss of her than the bride. The sil agreed adding a it would put a damper on her special day.

My MIL asked me after a very traumatic miscarriage if I "could still have children?". When I said yes, she replied: oh good. You've still got some worth.

@Jokie gobsmacked 😶 how on earth did you reply to that?!

@uphillanddownale what a truly horrible thing for your inlaws to say! So much for the #bekind movement!

And to think, there are posters on Mumsnet who say MILs are hard done by and harshly judged on this site! This thread shows they are not at all.

My MIL and FIL took out 20,000 pounds worth of loans to pay for my wedding. I had no idea that it was my husband's loan. I've been supporting us financially and have paid for the gold which my husband made me indirectly

Funny thing is my MIL never mentioned the loan and still expects my husband to send 200 pounds each month despite having to make repayments every month.

Makes my blood boil