Imagine having this woman as your Mother/MIL !!

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Just speechless.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12698805/Britains-meddlesome-mum-daughter-33-married-mum-Emma-redecorated-kitchen-away-tracks-online-tells-sex.html

Exactly! It has been written to make the mum out to be even more of a meddlesome twat than she probably is.

While this article is a clear money making hoax - I do think this.

But then I think DH and I had some of this well into our 30s - DH was left as a child then had three line whip as young adult to go on holiday with IL and then we had years when IL invited themselves on our family holidays - my own DP would often use me asking for a lift to meddle in my travel arrangements often completely fucking them up - and Dad despite insisted we all got permission to use phone then would ring all the numbers and demand to know who they all were. Lots of antics - lot of moving further away and putting in boundaries - think its all fine then another round of game playing bullshit.

DSis first DP mother re-arranged her entire flats furniture when she came home after birth of first child - and had whole family camped outside maternity ward. Also invited anotehr family member their house for months to stop in. There were similar antics from older brothers first serious relationship parents - they got him working for them for more control.

Ahhhhh, now the biggest WTF for me wasn't the helicopter parenting but that the daughter had managed to go to Jamaica for two weeks with her own 5 daughters. I mean who seriously has the money for that when you are only 33 and have 5 children.

Clearly the tacky articles go towards it.

*WestwardHo1"· Today 11:41

I don't believe for one second this woman wrote this article. It would have been dreamt up by some editor somewhere who told his/her researchers to go and find a story that loosely matched the description and then edited beyond all recognition.

Yes, I can totally imagine the scene in the editor's office:

"Yeah, Samantha, look at this I found online. Can you exaggerate it about 20x, yeah? Oh - and get a photo shoot with that nutty woman..."

In the unlikely scenario this is actually true (and not just dramatised nonsense designed to gather yet more comments and shares), the issue is more to do with boundaries. The daughter and son in law gave her access to the tracking app, they've given her a house key, they let her sit on the end of their bed in the middle of the night...and then they let a national newspaper print the story. Wonder how much they got for that.

This is fucking weird I think her daughter is trying to tell her something when she moves the pictures back. I would be demanding the key she has for my house back and removing the location tracker.

@keepgoingdespiteeverything the group we are in where folks put themselves forward for this stuff - you are lucky to get £350. Standard is between £50-100 for paid stories.

Lol gosh! Reminds me of the time my dsis and her bf came to visit me. His mom rang and insisted on knowing what he would be eating, at what time and told dsis that she wanted him to have a bath that night. He was 35!

Dumped lol

It is awful, and I would have said impossible until I recently encountered DD's boyfriend's mother, who seems very much like this to me.

She wants to control and parent two twenty somethings as if they are toddlers and dislikes me because I don't share her views or approach. Apparently that makes me an unsupportive mother and she will have to step in!! Yes, she did try saying that directly to me and I pulled her up very sharply on it! I refuse to see her now and have banned her from my house. Her number is also blocked on my phone and it will stay that way.

Everything in their house revolves around her with a "yes Jane, no Jane, three bags full Jane" so she got a shock when I refused to dance to her tune and told her to bugger off. I am now persona non grata to her, which suits me just fine.

I could write about her antics all evening (many incidents, and she is unbelievably awful) but I will leave it there for now. I don't want to misuse the terminology, but she is so self centered and her behaviour and reactions seem so spiteful and extreme that I actually wonder if she is a narcissist. There's certainly nothing about her that seems normal to me.

I feel sorry for her son. He gets very upset about it all and finds her excruciatingly embarrassing.

I used to work with a woman like this. She was obsessed with her grown up children. She used to insist her son has a "date night" with her once a week. They had dinner and a movie and no one else was allowed in the house (her husband was banished to his brothers). She actually cried when he proposed to his girlfriend. When her daughter got married she call it "our wedding"

can't be real. no chance