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Worst thing your in-laws have ever said or done to you?

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Springsunshine123 · 03/02/2025 21:52

Whats the worst thing your in-laws have ever said/done to you? Long list of mine include:
MIL telling me on our wedding day “Did not expect this to be this nice from you”
MIL asking me how much my jacket was and when replying £50 she said (god are you sure, wouldn’t expect you to fork out that much!)
trying to feed my 9mo lucozade
wanting someone to blow smoke into my 7yo’s ear to cure his earache
telling me it was my fault her husband was coughing…. The list of gems is endless…GO!

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BellaCiaoBellaCiao · 21/02/2025 17:14

CantStopBuyingSeeds · 03/02/2025 23:48

They lost their child! Have a heart. I don't agree with abandoning a grandchild (like my inlaws did to my DD...) but grief does weird things and no parent should ever have to bury their own son/daughter. I wouldn't be able to go on living, I know that much.

If I lost my child, I’m damn sure I’d want to hold on to the closest thing to them; their own child!

Fs 🤦‍♀️

Lyraloo · 23/02/2025 03:29

My pil came into some money. At this point we’d been married over25 yrs. my dh had two sisters and we had a dd. At Christmas they gave both sisters and our dd £1000 each. Nothing extra for me or dh. Two weeks after Christmas is dh birthday. Lo and behold, he gets £1000, my birthday, nothing! It was so clear that they didn’t want me to have a penny. Dh was livid and spent his money equally on us both and took great delight in telling his dp’s what he’d bought. Mil was livid and said we wanted you to have some money of your own to buy yourself something nice because you never have anything! Dh had just bought a Ferrari and I’d bought him a Rolex for chistmas. It wasn’t about the money, we didn’t need it. It was just done so nastily.

ThisMellowCat · 15/10/2025 07:01

Being called my partners ex’s name, more than once.
getting through cancer to then be told “you surprised me, I didn’t expect you to handle this well”

Festivespirit85 · 15/10/2025 10:07

Lyraloo · 23/02/2025 03:29

My pil came into some money. At this point we’d been married over25 yrs. my dh had two sisters and we had a dd. At Christmas they gave both sisters and our dd £1000 each. Nothing extra for me or dh. Two weeks after Christmas is dh birthday. Lo and behold, he gets £1000, my birthday, nothing! It was so clear that they didn’t want me to have a penny. Dh was livid and spent his money equally on us both and took great delight in telling his dp’s what he’d bought. Mil was livid and said we wanted you to have some money of your own to buy yourself something nice because you never have anything! Dh had just bought a Ferrari and I’d bought him a Rolex for chistmas. It wasn’t about the money, we didn’t need it. It was just done so nastily.

I can't stand underhanded nastiness like that. If you don't like me and don't want to gift me something, just say, then we know where the line is drawn.

BeTaupeBear · 15/10/2025 10:55

I refused to take my newborn baby an hour and half away through country roads to watch her go gliding in the middle of a field. She was not happy and made it clear and when I wouldn’t budge bitched when I left the room to my husband. There’s loads more.

xxxwd · 15/10/2025 12:01

That my son wasn’t Autistic it was just because I was a shit parent.

icycoldhands · 15/10/2025 15:42

Some truly terrible stories on here. Must admit, as mother to 2 sons, I’ve checked the thread to see if I’ve inadvertently upset either of their lovely wives (I can sometimes speak without thinking) but so far, so good! Although I never liked my DH’s parents, their behaviour was quite mild compared to some of the things on here…..first meeting with his parents, his father, in his late ‘60’s, thought it appropriate to squeeze my bottom……his mother always called me by his ex-wife’s name (evidently they didn’t even like her so don’t know why)…..they never understood that I had a professional career and thought it terrible that I continued to work after we had children ( my DP’s did the childcare)…..totally disinterested in our sons but doted on their other grandchildren…..treated my DH as an “outsider” in his own family although he was the only decent one out of all of them….not being given a wedding present by any of his family as he’d been married before and they’d bought him something then. A strange lot!

TwoFatDucklings · 15/10/2025 16:10

She told my DH it was only a matter of time before I broke his heart and he'd come back to her, because men always go back to their mothers.

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