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to be offended by MIL?

35 replies

meandollie · 21/05/2010 11:33

Gargh! Venting to follow I'm afraid! SO

She's not actually my mil as dp and I aren't married, but we've been together 7 years so it's easier to call her mil. She Is so bitchy! A few months ago I was ill with a bad stomache bug and was in my PJ's at 10am when she came around to pick up ds for the day. She called me "lazy" for going back to bed to try and sleep it off whilst ds was out for the day!
Ever since she's been making insinuations about how I'm 'lazy'. e.g she was on the phone to dp the other week (she only ever calls when she wants something) and asked whhat I was doing, if I was dressed, if I'd been out that day....! I was fucking fuming. I hadn't been out that day because I was waiting for a delivery, I was dressed and I was playing with ds - she managed to make it sound like I was lazy and doing wrong by ds.

yesterday, I'd been joking with my cousin oon Facebook about how my arse is huge and I couldn't walk after being on my rowing machine. She saw this and commented saying something patronising about how it'll get easier in a few weeks....if you keep at it that lonng!!!! I replied explaining I was joking with him and I'd had the rower for months to which she replied "ah, but how often do you use it, haha!!!!" I said "every day". Now she's saying oh good, you'll have to come for a run with me when you're over if you're fit enough!

It probably sounds really petty to you from a diferent perspective but it's driving me nuts! I'm not lazy and I find it really insulting to be accused of it.

Sorry for the rant!

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Katisha · 21/05/2010 11:36

a. Deregister from Facebook.
b. Tell her you find her remarks hurtful not funny.

cupcakesandbunting · 21/05/2010 11:40

No, don't deregister from FB. Just delete her and say that you don't think it's appropriate that you're Facebook friends anymore.

She sounds like a right battleaxe. Tell her that you'd hoped for some support from her rather than her belittling you at every opportunity.

Katisha · 21/05/2010 11:43

My advice to everyone is to deregister from FB
Did it a couple of months ago and it's great!

Kathyjelly · 21/05/2010 11:46

YANBU. (sends psychic sympathy through the ether) Some MILs seem to think they have the right to be as insulting as possible and you just have to accept it. Used to drive me crazy.

My ex-MIL came to stay and when I went to see what she was up to, I found her changing her bed linen. When I pointed out that I'd only done it an hour earlier she sad "Well now I've done it again. Better safe than sorry". Safe from what exactly?

Choose something you really like, (for me Waitrose Gooseberry Fool) and have it as a sort of antedote every time she's nasty.

meandollie · 21/05/2010 11:49

Haha, you must feel so freeee! No, fb is the best way I have of keeping in touch with my family and friends since I moved 350 miles away, they'd never forgive me!

TBH I'm a bit of a whimp and am asolutely terrible at confrontation, hate it. I just replied to her saying that I don't have the time to go running, what with having a child and all (she has a 4 year old, so is a bit of a jibe).
If she carries on though, I will let rip! As much as I hate confrontation if I to go for it, boy do I go for it! Just don't want to make things awkward - am clearly more mature at 22 than mil at 55....

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Katisha · 21/05/2010 11:51

Well don't give her the satisfaction of rising to it then. And stop justifying yourself to her! Just greet remarks with stony silence, or at least FB silence. You don't HAVE To reply!
She will tire of it with no response, like the school bully...

meandollie · 21/05/2010 11:52

I like your thinking kathyjelly might not help me on my quest to be fitter than mil though!

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booyhoo · 21/05/2010 11:55

it is absolutely none of her business even if you do want to saty in jammies all day and not leave the house(although i realise that you were waiting for a delivery so couldn't leave). it is between you an your DP and no-one else.

next time tell her straight, " it really is nothing to do with you so please keep your opinions to yourself and stop asking DP questions about me. if you want to know something about me, ask me, and then i will repeat my earlier statement, it is none of your business."

nickschick · 21/05/2010 11:55

Just say my arse is so huge that your ds finds me irresistible and is always shagging me thats why we stay in and i never get dressed we are so busy fuckin and then say im surprised your son never told you - thought you were close?

meandollie · 21/05/2010 11:57

I know I don't HAVE to reply! I feel the need to stand up for myself though! I shudder the thought of her interpreting my 'silence' as me having nothing to say in response and therefore having been right/'won'.

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waitingforbedtime · 21/05/2010 11:57

If you were married I would say you were my SIL.

MIL literally grills ds on what he has done each week as if he is locked in a cupboard or something the entire time! When he was a newborn she rang constantly asking 'have you had him out today?' 'have you been for a walk with him?' etc etc etc I just used to lie.

Katisha · 21/05/2010 12:00

No just try the silence routine.
She will end up looking the silly one.

Katisha · 21/05/2010 12:01

She is enjoying needling you.

DuelingFanjo · 21/05/2010 12:02

block her on facebook. Simple.

meandollie · 21/05/2010 12:06

Love the suggestions, esp arse = sexy time!

I did promise myself as I was writing last reply it would be my last - have said all there is to say now.

waiting Sorry you have the same! Though it sounds like yours cares at least! Mil really doesn't, she's never even come to visit us despite visiting her sister who lives 20 miles away! I am very happy with this arrangement, but feel very bad for dp and ds when he's older.

They really are a differrent species aren't they?! Wonder what I'll be like....
Thanks ladies!

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SirBoobAlot · 21/05/2010 12:07

Ever seen that film Monster In Law? Sounds like she could play the role perfectly...

NewBirdOnTheBlock · 21/05/2010 12:07

You can stop her from seeing your updates etc. without de-friending her.

I have a cousin like that. We moved to England from Gibraltar and she cannot resist banging on about how fantastic the weather is and how lovely her new pool is and anything you get or she sees in pictures, shes already got it but hers is better..she totally grates on me and a few friends from here have inboxed me to find out who the nasty cow is.

The fact that they had picked up on it was enough for me to stop her seeing my updates. Shes just commented on the playhouse in my dd's pictures. Her son's got the same on apparently. Only I suspect he's got a double extention and pool at the back of his

meandollie · 21/05/2010 12:20

She just replied saying "It doesn't take much, just go for a run instead of watching TV!!!" ....hmmm really am not commenting anymore, I will savour the feeling of being the better person. Will not mention the fact that I don't watch TV or have people here to watch ds so I can go for a run and dp works all the hours god sends....

....high ground, high ground, high ground.... will be today's mantra I think!

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Cartoose · 21/05/2010 12:23

YANBU. I'd just delete her comments.

meandollie · 21/05/2010 12:44

Thanks I nearly did but then I realised that they're actually mativating me even more on my excercise routine, maybe I should thank her...pah!

I wouldn't normally let people like her get to me but it's the fact that she's picking at my weight which she knows ful well that I'm insecure about it (went up 2 dress sizes after having ds), I just couldn't let it go. What a mean woman.

I'm ok now though, thanks everyone - vented my anger on the rowing machine, I'll show her...

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meandollie · 21/05/2010 12:44

motivating* rather

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Katisha · 21/05/2010 12:50

She sounds utterly charmless.

StealthPolarBear · 21/05/2010 12:57

maybe next time she asks whether you've been out etc you could offer to send her an itinery.

6am get up
6.03am have wee
6.05am have shower
6.06am wash face
etc...

diddl · 21/05/2010 14:27

I would certainly not have her as a friend on FB & wouldn´t bother to engage with her at all.

MIL & I are civil.
TBH we are too different for it to be anything else.
She really is from a different generation-and old for her years.
I would never consider her a friend-we both love the same man, that´s it!

MadamDeathstare · 21/05/2010 14:38

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