WhatsApp the craziest things your MIL has said?

[Summerends1]

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My DD, 1 at the time, had the slightest runny nose, a little sneeze and MIL screeched, “You better call the Doctor and demand you get seen this afternoon! You better had, or you’ll have social services at your door for neglect!” That sneeze never transpired into a cold….. But whats the craziest thing your MIL has said? This is NOT a MIL bashing thread, but it perplexes me that woman says the darndest things, but thats just who she is as a person! I do love her, she just confuses me.

Asked me whether my DH had consented to the conception of our 3 DC 😂😂😂

Because my MIL is the one who says crazy things…. If a wife was on here complaining about her husband would you ask her “why doesn’t she pick on someone else?”🤨

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Mine told me I should go to A&E because I sneezed 4 times and that ‘wasn’t natural’.

She also told me to go back to the doctors because the single antibiotic pill I had taken hadn’t magically cured my chest infection. She then cleared her throat and said that she might get pneumonia.

Loads more. DH always says I got the wrong end of the stick but she was quite frankly bonkers.

It just seems to be encouraging complaints about MILs - like so many other posts.

Its not encouraging complaints, its wanting to hear similar experiences with regards to having to graciously deal and smile through gritted teeth when MIL says something

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My MIL has said many special things but a couple that stand out are: ’It’s a shame you’re not a natural mother, like (SIL)’
and telling my eldest he was embarrassing his Dad because he’s autistic.

😮 ouch! Im sure your a wonderful mother btw :)

She’s generally fine but currently has a bee in her bonnet about women’s rugby.

However a few years ago when Boris Johnson was our PM and she didn’t like him she announced that she really liked Jacob Rees Mogg. Generally I don’t rock the boat but I couldn’t not respond and said “WHAT? Are you winding me up… he’s awful. He’s a misogynist!!” She’d been reading the Telegraph…

Thanks- my children think I am!

Announcing our third pregnancy - “Oh - why?” Then a big sigh followed by “well Christmas is going to be expensive for me now isn’t it”.

Disclaimer - never once asked for childcare or financial support. Or any support for that matter.

I do love my MIL, she’s a wonderful Granny but this makes me laugh and roll eyes every time..

On my son’s nut allergy, “Where has he got that from then? Oh we never had nut allergies when I was young. Mind you, I never eat nuts myself because they make me cough and my lips get itchy”.

We have tried to tell her to get to the drs.

After knowing me for 15 years - hearing me (but never listening) talk about work - “so what is it you actually do.”

"If you died, would your mother be upset?"

Context: this was about 37 years ago. MIL was very upset that DH (then my bf) and I were planning to buy a flat together. She had already asked me what my mum thought of the idea and I replied that mum was happy as long as it was what I wanted. She was trying to imply that my DM didn't care about me. We were early 20s, so not teenagers.

Another time, when me and DH were still dating and living with our respective parents, he went to take me home one night after I'd been to his and his car wouldn't start. He asked his dad if he could borrow his car and his dad said yes. His mum turned round and said "the car is half mine and I say no". It was 10pm at night and there was no direct transport link back to mine, half an hour away. We did take the car and his dad apologised the next day, but she didn't.

“If anything ever happened to you, then I would have your children”.

Said as more of a demand or thinly veiled threat as opposed to a loving grandmother that wanted to ensure the kids were taken care of.

This has actually given me chills (not the good sort) but i can 100% see how it could be said as a demand or a threat! Urgh

My very lovely MIL via Dd's dad died when dd was 9 weeks old, she was genuinely lovely but she had obviously had some issues with her other DIL's (ex had been married before with 2 kids and he had 2 older brothers and their lives were very odd).

The craziest thing she ever said re dd was that she would give me money to buy whatever I needed so I could pick things I liked because she didn't want to upset me buy buying things she liked in case it wasn't to my taste. She seemed ao genuinely gutted that she couldn't buy for dd. I took her to a large out of town shopping mall (she had lived in the town her whole 80 year life and no one had taken her) and we chose things together. One of my favourite outfits for dd was chosen by her and I still have it now. Now dont get me wrong, some of the bits off the local knitting stall 9n the market in her bit of town were utterly hideous but dd always wore them when visiting her in hospital.

My dm on the other hand...got pissybbecause inwas taking dd to the hospital daily tonsee her dying grandma. MiL was in a private side room so no risk. Dm was not impressed tlwhebnintold her if mil couldn't see her then it wouldn't be fair for her to see her either.

Or the nurse with mil the day inwas induced ..said she would see is in 12 weeks. I was very puzzled and asked why so long was she moving wards. Her answer..."no dear, you cant take them out til they have had their vaccines" my mouth said what was in my head before I could stop it...MIL howled at my reply of "im having a baby not a fucking puppy". I was mortified at being rude to the nurse but loved hearing my MIL laugh with proper deep belly laughs.

@Summerends1Oh she’s a peach. She hates the fact her son has his own family. Tried for years to include her and make her part of it but she insists on battling me at every opportunity.

And MILs are parents too!

I see the holier than thou twats are out in force. I could write a book about my MIL. Gems including moving to another country in the arse end of nowhere and then complaining we never visited them, listing everyone who was pregnant after I’d just suffered a horrendous miscarriage and was still bleeding heavily, and telling me I was a bad mum for putting sunscreen on my kids as they’d ’get to hot’. Oh, and allergies aren’t real apparently

“Holier than thou twats” 😂😂 its as if some mumsnetters find it difficult to believe that some of us have not been blessed with normal MIL’s, and that some of us actually do suffer a fair bit through the words of these women! Sorry to hear about your miscarriage

“You need to buy a four bed house, and then give me the master with the en suite to live in.”
”We’re all a little bit autistic.” (My eldest is autistic)
”DH should repay me for all the years that I spent bringing him up as a child, £100k should do it.” (But didnt expect his sisters to repay her )

She also fell out with me for a year and refused to speak to any of us including dc because I stopped her using my car when she did thousands of pounds worth of damage to it and didnt offer to pay for it.

God rest her soul, she was a very difficult woman to get on with. It was almost like a relief when she passed away.

'Oh well that's a shame, let's hope the other one is a boy'
when telling her that we were having a baby girl, SIL was pregnant too. DC's are now grown up but she's never been interested in the girls!

At birth my child was my absolute double, it was commented on by the doctor as she delivered her and then everyone who met her, it was a real copy and paste job. At a few days old my MIL sat on the sofa holding the baby and proceeded to list every obscure relative of hers and assign them to a body part of the baby - Second cousin Mary’s ears, great uncle Barry’s top lip and so on. I didn’t feature…