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MIL keeps announcing when she's off to the toilet - AIBU to find this disgusting or am I being precious?

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Ishacoco · 10/04/2023 20:55

PIL are staying for the week and something is up with MIL stomach because of the medication she takes. And we are not being spared the details. She's off to the toilet every five minutes and we're being given a running commentary -

"Oooh, I'll have to go up to the toilet again, things are happening."

"I must say, my bowels are rather loose."

At the dinner table -

"I'll have to leave this meal, I need another trip to the bathroom. My stomach isn't behaving. I'll get there, won't be forever, not much left in me now."

As we're trying to eat FGS!

DP is ignoring it but I genuinely feel like I need to be in another room from her all the time. AIBU??

OP posts:
Fansandblankets · 11/04/2023 14:39

Yep my MIL was the same. Every time she came round we’d get a detailed explanation of what she just did in the toilet. After every visit us be up there with the bleach 😂

once she had some sort of operation down below. When she visited my husband asked her how she was trying to be discreet he asked her how her stomach was and she shouts out “it wasn’t my stomach, it was my fanny”. 🤢

CurlewKate · 11/04/2023 15:18

She's a mother in law. So it's gross, rude and utterly unacceptable. If it was a man insisting on farting wherever he wanted, including in bed, it would be perfectly natural, unhealthy to hold it in and controlling to complain about it.

verabarbleen · 11/04/2023 18:26

Reminds me of that episodes of the royle family when nanna is having issues 😂

phoenixrosehere · 11/04/2023 21:54

CurlewKate · 11/04/2023 15:18

She's a mother in law. So it's gross, rude and utterly unacceptable. If it was a man insisting on farting wherever he wanted, including in bed, it would be perfectly natural, unhealthy to hold it in and controlling to complain about it.

It’s unacceptable regardless if it is a man or a woman imo. I wouldn’t want to hear such things from anyone no matter if they were family or not.

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