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you don't have to read or respond but please allow me a small space to rant about my MIL AARRRRGGHHH

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kitbit · 20/03/2008 00:45

Looooong story.
Short version: MIL turned on the waterworks today and once again had everyone completely changing their plans, putting themselves out and generally being inconvenienced, including ds who has been really ill this week and whom we were trying to keep fairly "quiet" so as not to overtire and make him ill again. All of this met with tight lipped martyrdom and a vague whiff of self righteousness.
Totally fed up at injustice of it all (she has the wrong end of the stick as bloody usual), doubly so because in the background will be a little whispering campaign about how horrible I am. (Currently my turn - SIL has been "it" for a while but I think that has changed for the time being).

It's ANOTHER MIL rant thread so sorry for being boring, and I know that although she's mad and annoying she's not poisonous like many others, just really needed to let off steam.

(anyone else need a free space for a MIL rant? help yourselves!)

thanks for listening, already feeling better

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sunnydelight · 20/03/2008 05:39

Would hate to leave a MIL rant unacknowledged My MIL is also a mistress of manipulation; one of the best things about our move to Australia has been the absence of her in our lives. I heard her voice over skype last night for the first time in months but as she's far to tight to ever call us I don't have to speak to her any more - bliss!

sunnydelight · 20/03/2008 05:40

That would of course be too tight

GirlySquare · 20/03/2008 06:00

YANBU

superloopy · 20/03/2008 06:01

Ooohh I have one of these too! Aren't they annoying.

Thankfully now my MIL is in another hemisphere and I decided whether or not I want to chat on skype (never) or email (very rarely).

MIL booked flights(to Oz) to come and see us for 10 days arriving 3 days after DS due date. I went 13 days overdue and he was born 6hrs before she had to fly back to the UK. She wouldn't listen to us when we asked that she wait and let us get settled before she visited. Insisted that she knew best! Hardy har har!

Unfortunately MIL has trained up SIL to take over her reign and I am dreading the fact that SIL has decided to move to where we are now living. This city just isn't big enough for the two of us!

I don't think they have realised that DH was so keen to move here to get away from them!

kitbit · 20/03/2008 09:14

thanks girls!! felt lots better just letting off some steam, and thanks for the moral support!! It's a funny thing - if they do something concrete you can challenge it but so often it's these little sideways and backwards gestures, a little manipulation here, a few tears there, and suddenly everyone is running about and they're the centre of it all again. GRRRR.

But interesting to note that 2 of you have gone to opposite hemispheres.... LOL!

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chelsygirl · 20/03/2008 09:28

yup................

it was ds2's birthday yesterday and she didn't bother to call him to say happy birthday..........mind you she never calls us unless she wants something................

some women don't deserve to be called granny do they

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