Sorry MIL thread. We encouraged her to pay off her mortgage considering the potential increase in interest rates and the deal she had was variable. She has now done this and it has left her with about £40k in savings.
Every time we speak now she tells us that now she has done what we advised, she doesn’t have enough in case of a crisis. She’s also got SIL to repeat the same kind of line - for example SIL told a good friend of mine (that she hasn’t seen for 5 years) MIL couldn’t have made it to an event we hosted ‘unless she had helped out as it wasn’t local and she wouldn’t have had anywhere to stay as no one else was helping her with that’ (which is rubbish as she could have got a hotel - we aren’t local to where the event was either).
DH’s family all expect something for nothing. When we go to see MIL we are expected to shop for her as we reach her (indication is always she doesn’t have as much as us after all) and when she comes to us she never takes us out to say thank you for our hospitality or anything really. She has also been telling us how SIL isn’t earning what she needs considering all her commitments unlike us who can do what we do (SIL has just done extensive work to her house so not exactly brassic tho). SIL expects hospitality but doesn’t give it.
I don’t quite know what crisis she thinks could happen but am I right in thinking shes obviously got something in mind. Or is it just general concern and I am reading too much into it?