This is sort of lighthearted as I just need to vent after having my SIL and her partner stay with us for a couple of days.
My SIL is uhm a little sheltered, DH and I are together 16 years now, I noticed she had very little interest in me from the get go but ever since my mid twenties or so when I ditched my student diet of McDonald’s and began to get into healthier food she started to become judgey. One time she came to visit us and looked through our fridge asking ‘why don’t you have any unhealthy food?’ We went for breakfast a few years back, and she made all sorts of comments about me ordering porridge (I was training for a marathon so didn’t fancy a fry up at that time?!) There’s been numerous of comments like this throughout the years and I can sometimes just answer swiftly and move on without indulging her too much. However I’m a pescatarian now and she asks me the same questions pretty much every time she sees me. So this visit was for two days and the questions consisted of:
‘Why do you have oat milk in your fridge? Where’s your normal milk?
When I suggested going to a pizza restaurant, ‘’Do you eat pizza?’ What do vegans eat on a pizza? (Im not vegan, have told her this several times)
‘Would you eat a Chinese tonight? What will you be able to eat there?’
When a waitress served me the wrong dish which had meat in it and I had to send it back, ‘what would happen if you ate that? Would you get sick?’ Then why don’t you eat it?
when I said I wouldn’t have dessert at dinner because I already had ice cream at lunch, ‘do you only allow yourself limited amount of sugar in a day?’ Why?
For context, these comments are said with a condescending tone. If she was a 12 year old or maybe genuinely interested in such a diet I might find the constant questions endearing or even cute. However, she is 38, and I am 34, she has no interest in food really- she’s more of an’ ‘eat to live’ kinda person. I get the impression that she thinks I am alternative or a hippie type as she has cupboards filled with rubbish and DH and I just have the odd few biscuits in or whatever. I’m really not alternative, I have a few really healthy eating friends who would put me to shame but when I’m with my SIL I feel like I’m some sort of weirdo for having really what I would call a balanced, adult diet.
She’s the type of person who judges people for restricting their children’s sugar intake and limiting screen time, she thinks it’s ‘posh.’ Ahh she’s annoying! She really is quite sad, doesn’t get out much, don’t think she has any friends and don’t think she cares (fair enough), says she doesn’t take her children out much because she hates playing with them, sits them in front of the tv most of the day… sorry I’m getting mean now and don’t intend to be but I sometimes think judgey people need some judgement back!’
Not sure why I’m posting this, just venting really.
Tell me your annoying in law stories please!