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What mad/batty things does your MIL do or say/or has she done?

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meggymoo · 18/07/2005 23:24

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chicagomum · 19/07/2005 16:55

wwb when you posted on an old thread of mine about how you tolerate your mil(the one about my inlaws coming to stay with us for 2.5 weeks without my knowledge) i thought "yes, but your's can't be as bad as mine" but having read what you've subsequently posted on other threads i have to say you win

koalabear · 19/07/2005 16:57

that would be WWB [bad typist]

W0MBAT · 19/07/2005 17:01

On my wedding day, my MIL told me she wouldn't interfere. Boy was that a lie!

I once cooked a meal for them and she actually cried because she didn't think there was enough protein in it, and so came to the conclusion that her ds wasn't been fed properly.

Like everyone else, I could go on but I haven't got all day.

fishfinger · 19/07/2005 17:02

leaves her micowave door open all the time

WigWamBam · 19/07/2005 17:03

Oh, and this one was a good one too:

Lying flat out in bed hours after a 24 hour labour and emergency caesarean, she turns up at the same time as my mother and when they midwives asked them to limit their time seeing us MIL said to me "It's OK, no-one's come to see you anyway".

KristinaM · 19/07/2005 17:04

" You can't possibly know what its like to love a child until you have given birth to it!"

announced my MIL to me one day, as I sat on the sofa beside my step daughter and with one of my two adopted children on my knee.....

koalabear · 19/07/2005 17:05

oh, that's truly horrid

W0MBAT · 19/07/2005 17:06

What an evil thing to say. How did you react Kristina?

WigWamBam · 19/07/2005 17:06

Kristina, that's really nasty.

KristinaM · 19/07/2005 17:11

I was so shocked...didn't know what to say....DH stood up and said we were leaving. It was two years ago and 5yo DD still asks " Why did Grandma say that you don't love us?".

My DSS died last month and she didnt even come to the funeral or send a card, let alone phone my DH to see how he is. She is a very strange woman.....

KristinaM · 19/07/2005 17:12

Perhaps she's a friend of WWB's MIL - they sound like peas in a pod!

Carlk · 19/07/2005 17:19

My MIL is great! witty, intelligent, supportive, patient, I could go on... However my mother can be a nightmare. Maybe DW should have answered this one

Did you know that teething babies should be given a teaspoon of sugar to ease the pain?????

You shouldnt encourage a 'cruising' baby to stand however much they want to as this gives them rickets WTF!!!

She is always trying to stuff chocolate buttons into DD's mouth to the extent she doent actually like them (female with chocolate aversion)
and many more. {shakes head emoticon}

Nightynight · 19/07/2005 17:22

at this thread. How can people be so thoughtless??

Fio2 · 19/07/2005 17:25

mine has called me by my husbands ex wife's name several times, i wouldnt mind but they were only married breifly

WigWamBam · 19/07/2005 17:30

Carlk, it's unusual to see a man who realises that his mother isn't always right! My dh can't believe that any of the things his mother does are deliberate, and if I say anything then I'm being over-sensitive. Congratulations on being one of the few men who realises that his mother isn't perfect

KristinaM · 19/07/2005 19:53

My DH ( and his brothers ) have now realised that their mother is more trouble / grief than she is worth and wont have anything to do with her. So not all men think their mothers are perfect!!

Its very sad for her, but its her choice to act the way she does. She obviously get more out of being a victim / martyr who has " ungrateful children" than she does out of actually having a relationship with any of her family.

nutcracker · 19/07/2005 20:00

Think everyone knows this by now but anyway...

MIL tried to punch me in the stomach when I was pregnant with dd1 and had just come out of hospital after losing dd1's twin.

WigWamBam · 19/07/2005 20:02

nutty

I hope you hit her back?

KristinaM · 19/07/2005 20:04

OOOh Nutty what a terrible thing to do!!! I am so shocked - I'm obviously the only Mner who didnt know. Did you have her charged with assault? You def win the " MIL from hell" prize

nutcracker · 19/07/2005 20:11

Thankfully she didn't actually manage it as dp stood in her way.

She had come over wanting to know why we hadn't visited her (she knew i was in hospital), and then just started ripping me apart, saying i was a gold digger (pmsl) and saying i must have been dragged up , and so I started to put my side across and said something like 'you don't know a thing about me ', and all of a sudden she charged down the room and that was that.

She was banned from the house for ages but then i relented because of dp. Things never change though and she was still the same nasty spiteful person and so I banned her and dp's dad from the house and told dp they were never ever to see me or the kids again. He is quite welcome to still see them but so far has chosen not to.

morningpaper · 19/07/2005 20:17

Not my MIL but my mother is convinced that all my skills are purely down to her. The other day I was making fruit salad and she said to DP, "I taught her that."

I am 30, and I can chop fruit - it's AMAZING!

morningpaper · 19/07/2005 20:20

For me personally, I always feel that WWB's elastic wins these threads...

fqueenzebra · 19/07/2005 20:22

MIL is generally quite nice, but....

MIL & FIL feed their dogs tidbits off the table during meals. Cannot begin to tell you how uncouth I think this is (and then they think I'm vulgar because I don't use a knife when eating and even have my elbows on the table occasionally).

Anyway, dogs begging as usual under table, my 2 children (age 1 & 3yo) get off their seats to play with dogs (under table). MIL says something, in reference to children getting out of their chairs in middle of meal, about how "naughty doggies get their bottoms slapped".

WTF!!??

Cam · 19/07/2005 20:46

morningpaper, it gets worse, believe me it gets worse. Last time I was at my parents house, I was cutting some bread from a loaf to make toast and my mother said "Mind you don't cut yourself"

Forget 30, I'm looking 50 in the face, and so far I've managed to cut bread without chopping my arm off since I left home at 16!!

I'm beginning to feel like John Cleese in that old advert "Mother I'm 55 and a High Court Judge"

And fqueenzebra, I really detest people who can't tell the difference between pets and children

ThePrisoner · 20/07/2005 00:15

I'm a strict vegetarian ... my MIL said that veggies find it very hard to get pregnant ... but I managed it during 1st month of trying.

MIL said veggies would have very difficult labour ... but I had perfect NCT textbook one (produced lovely dd)

MIL said veggies can't breastfeed ... but I successfully did so till I chose to stop many months later.

MIL said 1st pregnancy a fluke ... did it a 2nd time. Ha ha ha.

Got pregnant with twins, put that in your pipe and smoke it!!! And breastfed them till they were 11 months old.

But ... oh no ... produced another 2 dds! It is, apparently, according to MIL, a well-known medical fact that vegetarians can't make boy babies.

What she doesn't know is that her lovely little soldier, my dh, has had a motorbike for the last 10 years AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW!!!

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