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SIL has just left and I can't stop crying (warning upseting)

243 replies

helpcantstopcrying · 08/02/2014 22:08

Namechanged for this
Okay so SIL (DHs older sister) has always been hard to get along with. She has 3 lovely DCs but she is very negative about them and went they were younger they pretty much lived at the PILs house. But she seems to think she is the greatest mum in the world and nobody can compete with her.
She was also best friends with DHs ex-wife who left DH with their 2 DCs and rarely sees the DCs now and changes her number frequently and doesn't tell us or just doesn't bother answering. We think SIL is still in contact with her but when we ask she just laughs and says she won't say either way.

Everything I do isn't good enough, anything the DCs do hers have done something better. Anything I do is wrong and ex-wife did it better. We have limited contact with her to just family occasions for PILs who agree that she can be bitchy but ask us all to be civil when we have to be together.

So tonight DH is in work and the DCs have gone to PILs for a sleepover. SIL appeared at the door sobbing asking to talk to DH. When I said he isn't in she said she wanted to come in anyway. She was in tears in the rain in just a t-shirt and jeans, I thought something awful must have happened so I let her in made her some tea and got some blankets for her.

So half an hour later she had stopped crying and had taken control of the tv gotten some chocolate out her bag and kept laughing if I tried to talk to her. I gave up and just sat there watching her watch the tv.

Then her program finished and she asked me were the DCs were I said PILs house and she spent ages ranting about me taking advantage of the PILs (the DCs stay over there every 6 months or so at their request) I just nodded and explained that the PILs had asked them to come over. She wouldn't listen and kept saying I was a crap mum and ex-wife wouldn't abandon the DCs like that.
In the end I snapped and pointed out that ex-wife had abandoned the DCs therefore I am a better mum than her.
SIL started shouting that I was a witch who had made her brother into a crap dad. I said we were both good parents and she needed to leave now.

She ran into the dining room to the locked glass cupboard were my dad's ashes and some of his things are kept. The glass cupboard was built specially to store my dad's things away from the DCs because in his will he asked to be 'let go' on a certain day in the summer. He died in November so obviously this day hasn't been yet.
Anyway she smashed the cupboard with a small statue on my windowsill before I could catch her I grabbed her and I was begging her to just go. She hit me repeatedly in the face and in the end I let go she got into the cupboard and she chucked my dad's things everywhere and spat inside the jar holding my dad's ashes.

I am not proud of this but I lost it and I dragged her by her hair out of my house and chucked her out of the door telling her I hoped she died because no-one would care. She said that she prefered ex-wife to me I would never compare and everyone would be happier if I just killed myself.

I have closed the door she has gone and I have called DH and told him he has to come home but I haven't told him why.
The worst part is I have let my poor dad down and I can never make it right, some of his things are broken beyond repair and I must be the worst daughter in the world.

OP posts:
msrisotto · 09/02/2014 09:04

Jesus Christ OP that sounds horrendous. None of it was your fault and you haven't wrecked anything. I wonder what the initial reason was that she came round for.

JoinYourPlayfellows · 09/02/2014 09:35
Shock

I hope you are feeling OK this morning, helpcant.

What she did to your father's ashes is awful beyond most people's imagination. :(

I guess the days of being civil for other people's benefit are over.

I hope you are getting the support you need.

YourHandInMyHand · 09/02/2014 09:45
Shock

Just when you think nothing else can shock you! Sad

OP please don't feel you have let your dad down, what SIL did was despicable and no one would have ever thought it possible. Hope your DH soon got home and you managed to get some sleep. I personally do think you should report to the police and actually think by doing so you are logging her drug taking, violent and unpredictable behaviour and that may actually be a HELP to her dcs. They may well need safeguarding from her now or at some point in the future.

diddl · 09/02/2014 09:46

Hope you called the police & explained that she hit you, was breaking your stuff & you had to use (reasonable) force to get her out of your property.

What an absolute bitch she is.

lljkk · 09/02/2014 09:49

She's jealous of you, OP. I hope you can see that, one day. Sorry you've gone thru this. You haven't let your dad down, either.

I don't think I could ever forgive her for any of that. Maybe learn to speak civilly to her at family occasions, but nothing better.

DrMaybe · 09/02/2014 09:51

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frugalfuzzpig · 09/02/2014 10:16

Hope you're ok :(

helpcantstopcrying · 09/02/2014 11:09

Hello this is her husband.
I didn't realise that she had posted on here until I saw the window left open on the tablet, I have asked my wife if she wants me to update you all and she said that she would like me to do it.

I got home just after her last post we called the police and they came and took some photos and a statement but we didn't have to go down to the station mostly because she was very upset and her face had been beaten rather badly so I then took her to A&E. We came back and she went to sleep and we are going to the station today for interviews..
An officer came around this morning and told me that they had found my sister and they have taken her into the station but they can't say much more than that.

To answer some of your questions my sister's children used to go to my parents house a lot because she was finding it hard looking after her children and she wasn't really ready for the responsibility and she would go out with friends plus my parents wouldn't say no to her.

She probably told my parents about the drugs for attention and to upset my mum a bit so my mum will feel guilty and offer to babysit or give her money or something. I have told my mum not to do it but she gets upset and does it anyway.

My mum's anxiety is why we agreed to family occasions only because it upsets her so much but I can't agree to that anymore because what my sister has done is unforgivable and I don't want her anywhere near my family ever again.

I would like to thank you all so much for supporting my wife whilst I was coming from work. She was in such a state last night that I worry what would have happened had you all not been helping her through it.
She has said she will update again when she is ready.

Thank you all so much
The husband

OP posts:
MissBattleaxe · 09/02/2014 11:13

Thank you for the update. Sounds like you've handled it all very well. Hope she is OK.

AllThatGlistens · 09/02/2014 11:13

Oh bless you Sad

I hope you and your wife can find your way through all this with the support of your parents, and that you can eventually begin to move on with your lives, I think cutting all involvement is absolutely the right thing to do for your family.

I'm so sorry that you've both had to deal with such a horrible incident and hope that your wife recovers quickly Flowers

HoneyandRum · 09/02/2014 11:15

Thank you for updating us and taking good care of your DW.

magoria · 09/02/2014 11:21

Well done husband. There are times when you have to say enough is enough.

Don't let yourselves be emotionally blackmailed into family occasions by your parents when this has all calmed down.

Look after your wife and children and have a fantastic family without this vile person as part of it.

Ask your wife to consider some external support to deal with what happened as it was shocking behaviour and affected her deeply.

EverythingIsTicketyBoo · 09/02/2014 11:22

Thank you for the update, I hope your DW recovers from her injuries quickly Thanks for you and your family.

Madamecastafiore · 09/02/2014 11:23

What a wonderful, supportive DH you are.

I hope your sister gets the book thrown at her. It sounds like everyone has been facilitating her selfish,bad behaviour for a long time. Maybe this will be the wake up all she needs.

BonaDea · 09/02/2014 11:24

Husband - thanks for the update. Very difficult situation for you both.

While it occurs to me - it is possible that there will be a 'she said / she said' element to this while the police investigate. Your wife's original and subsequent posts on this thread are effectively a contemporaneous account / record of what happened in the immediate aftermath and may go some way to supporting your wife's case and/ or filling in detail that she might not remember so clearly today or in the future (sort of like her writing a statement straight away afterwards). Just a thought.

Fairenuff · 09/02/2014 11:24

Thank you for letting us know your wife is safe and being looked after. Hopefully your sister will receive appropriate treatment too.

ohfourfoxache · 09/02/2014 11:26

Thank you for updating, Husband.

I hope you're both as ok as you can be Thanks

Damnautocorrect · 09/02/2014 11:29

Thank you for the update. I'm wishing you and your family all the best as you start to get your heads round this. I can imagine this will be a very bumpy ride for your poor mum as well.

BoyMeetsWorld · 09/02/2014 11:33

So glad you're with her and being supportive. Such an awful thing to go through :s I'm very glad we could all be here until you got home with her...& I really hope things turn out ok. & that she gets to scatter her dads ashes as planned and feel at peace. Thoughts with all of you

youarewinning · 09/02/2014 11:37

Thank you for the update. I really hope it resolves itself with a good outcome for all your family.

WetDogLovesHubert · 09/02/2014 11:40

I've only read this this morning, but wanted to add my support for you both help and husband. I hope the police take thinga seriously and your injuries heal quickly.

oldgrandmama · 09/02/2014 11:46

Agree with BonaDea - to OP's husband, it would be a really good idea to print out OP's posts about this horrible episode.

Cerisier · 09/02/2014 11:48

I am another one hoping the Police take this extremely seriously. Defiling the remains of your late DF is unspeakable behaviour.

Busybusybust · 09/02/2014 11:51

I had almost exactly the same scenario with my SIL (late DH's sister), except that there were 7 chldren around and she was throwing things at me - my radio, the kettle, glasses, mugs - anything she could get her hands on. I too dragged her out of my house by her hair, by which time my son had rung the police.

When they arrived she was in a neighbour's house, mocking the police from the window. Big mistake! They arrested her and put her in the cells to sober up. I decided not to press charges, because I thought it would be her children that would suffer: I really regret that now. She could have killed any one of those children had any of her missiles made contact with their head! (two of which were hers). Obviously I have had no contact with her since, but I understand that she has had a spell in Holloway!

Divinity · 09/02/2014 11:56
Thanks

Hope your wife is feeling better soon and that things work out the best they can.

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