MIL from Hell stories

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I know. I know. This has been done on here many times before!

Here are a few things that mine did:

*Organised my house/rearranged everything when I was in hospital giving birth to my first born.

*Changed my babies formula when I was at work without asking.

*Regularly walked into my house, walked up to my son’s bedroom where my parents and I were, took him out of his cot without a single word to anyone and took him downstairs.

*Took all the baby clothes I had had as gifts which were still in gift bags, took all the labels off and took them home to wash them. I couldn’t tell them which outfit came from which person and I wanted to be the one to go through them. I found this really upsetting.

*Bought my son’s first pram, Moses basket and pretty much everything you can think of:which sounds very generous but the pram had broken brakes and was from a car boot sale, I felt like I had to use it for risk of offending her as she was easily offended. Also felt at the time that it took away me and my husband going shopping for these items ourselves. I never got to choose anything.

*Was told by my BIL and my FIL “You do know he’s not your son don’t you?” Many comments that she acted like he was her own baby.

*At my baby scan she said to DH “We’ve got our little boy” Which I thought was an odd thing to say.

*Took over pretty much everything, she’s a very dominant character and unfortunately I felt unable to stand up to her.

She also helped DH and I out a lot so it’s complicated but there was a massive over stepping of boundaries and because we relied on her for some childcare I was told to put up with it or she would cut herself off from us completely.

Many more examples but phew!

Well she's a vile drunk so that's why we cut her off but before that she did try renaming my son (not officially but kept calling him something else and trying to get us to change it).

The first time she met my son she tried leaving with him.

She also treated me like garbage after a miscarriage (and to be honest DH is just as much to blame for that as he didn't tell her to f off).

I'm convinced she'd det up a nursery for him at her house given some of the things she was saying about having the perfect set up for babysitting.

She was also really spiteful to one of my sisters who was staying with us at the time due to ill health.

Tried to thieve a lot of money from us.

So many more but urgh I hate that cow.

-Regaled me with stories of my husband’s ex-girlfriend and past lovers on the day we got married

-Told my husband I deserved to give birth alone if he tested positive for COVID during lockdown because I “wasn’t a nice person”

-Blamed me (she texted me directly) when her son forgot her birthday, because as she said she expected I would make him a better son when we married

-Told people I was a horrible wife because I didn’t offer to make guests tea and had ordered a sofa that had not yet arrived, so had limited places for guests to sit

-Told people I had postnatal depression when my son was born (I didn’t)

-Made us food when our second child was born and brought it over to our house — sounds great except it was burnt and had dog hair in it on more than one occasion. We binned it all.
-Said I was mentally unstable.

She’s one of the more toxic individuals I’ve ever met, unfortunately. The above is kind of outing maybe but it’s all true, so whatever!

I haven’t seen her in over a decade but the last time I did she physically attacked me at a funeral. It was like being in Eastenders. She’s insane.

Called me Lisa for the entire length of my marriage (not even close to my name but then DHs ex) then would correct herself, giggle and say to DH ‘how IS Lisa she was such a lovely girl’!

she was a madam - did many things like cleaning my house (going through my stuff) when I was at work, gatecrashed our wedding (abroad- just us) and brought along her mate and her husband who we’d never met. Commenting about my DHs gender disappointment (he had none!) and longing for a boy, just so much.

didn’t speak to me for 2 years after we divorced- oddly we now get on quite well - I suspect she really dislikes his new wife!

Crikey, the misogyny from women is shocking . . .

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It’s not misogyny at all - some women can be vile just like men

I despised mine but didn't let it annoy me because the opinion of and actions of a narrow minded narcissistic middle aged woman who never achieved anything in her life meant absolutely nothing to me . Try not to care so much and ignore . My only words were Please don't do that , I don't care and I think you need to leave now please. All with a tinkly laugh and MN head tilt.

In what sense?

Yes, a lot of MIL’s direct their own misogyny towards DIL’s don’t they? Because no one can be perfect for their perfect golden boys. It’s very difficult and those who have been through this sort of thing understand it and recognise it in the stories told by other women who have sadly been put in this situation.

Oh these MILs sound like mine.

The sort of woman who can dish out the insults, but has such a thin skin they can’t take the same behaviours when it is directed towards them by someone.

Mine asked me straight out of our newborn was my husbands, as he looked nothing like DH apparently. She did this several times, and even elaborated on it by pointing out all the features she clearly thought were ugly/not from their side 🙄

Like many others, I could tell so many other awful stories about mean things said and done.

What is it with these kind of MILs?

😂😂😂 Mine was very similar with one (and only one) of my children — she would ask repeatedly who I thought he looked like, and more than once said in an underhanded and almost conspiratorial way that he “looked like no one in their family.”