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Worst mother in law comments...go on join me in my misery lol!

459 replies

Flutterby10 · 28/10/2023 16:50

Go on tell me the worst things said to you by a mother in law?

Not saying they all bad btw I’ve had a couple of nice ones previously when younger.

Ive had pretty a pretty bad week with mine but I’ve decided I’m over it all now!

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mauvish · 28/10/2023 21:50

Re her son, my now-ex, who had been shagging the childminder and had moved on to shagging the lodger:

"You just need to make sure he feels really loved".

TheFormidableMrsC · 28/10/2023 21:52

Freddiefan · 28/10/2023 17:18

My MIL said that our children (her grandchildren) were illegitimate because her son and I had not been married in a Catholic Church.

My Nan told my Dad, in front of my Mum, that he wasn't "marrying that" because she was Protestant (family are Catholic). He did "marry that" and my Nan adored her in the end 🙄

Spudlet · 28/10/2023 21:52

Asked if we’d ‘had an accident’ when we told her I was pregnant. We were married, in our 30s and buying a house, so - no 😑

Also asked how much weight I’d gained the day before I was due to be induced (Christmas Day to boot, I went in on Boxing Day!), and when I said I didn’t know, offered me the use of her scales… erm again, no thanks! And when I said that the lovely boots that DH had bought me
fir Christmas wouldn’t at that time fit due to my swollen feet and ankles, informed me that they might just stay that way forever. (They didn’t).

She had a good heart, but a complete and utter absence of any tact whatsoever 😳

Iamnotalemming · 28/10/2023 21:54

Me, about to tuck into a Massive Salad.
Her, you're not going to eat ALL THAT are you??!!

Magnoliafarm · 28/10/2023 21:54

When my newborn was 3 days old, MIL was holding baby and went to pick up her cup of tea. I asked her not to have hot drinks while holding baby and she said ok, put the drink down and then said "if you weren't in the room I would have the drink while holding baby" my partner and I both made "huh?" sounds and she tried saying "grandparents are actually more careful with their grandchildren then the parents are..."
The first time they looked after baby without me there I hid the kettle!

Littlelucas · 28/10/2023 21:57

“but it’s the wifes job to send birthday cards etc isn’t it, even if it’s the husbands relations - you can’t expect him to remember!”

On dh losing weight: “you’re clearly not feeding him enough” tinkly laugh.

On praising any aspect of dc’s being talented in absolutely anything “well, you know they get that from OUR side of the family - my df/dm/dsis/gf’s pet cat was a very talented artist/musician/mathematician/gymnast/tightrope walker etc etc…

I am actually very fond of my mil but she does drive me mad sometimes - is it a generational thing? She’s 73.

Teenagehorrorbag · 28/10/2023 21:58

Mine is mostly great and means well, but is pretty tactless. If I take her to task she says "oh I didn't mean that, I'm not good with words like you are....."

When the DTs were young she was pretty judgemental about my parenting! Especially as DS was a real handful - he was later diagnosed with ASD and ADHD but as a toddler I was clearly the ineffectual mother........

Too many to remember but the worst was when DS (aged about 8 months I think) used to always pull his socks off and refused to wear any, inside or out. She said "well I loved my children, so I didn't want them to die of pneumonia....."!

There are no words........😨😂

BronnauMawrion · 28/10/2023 22:00

When my son was diagnosed with a neurological condition my mother in law told my husband "I don't think it's xxxx, I think it's just bad parenting".

I went low-contact for quite a while after that. I told my husband I was only prepared to listen to her opinion on our child once she'd completed her medical training and attained the status of CAMHS consultant.

Conkersinautumn · 28/10/2023 22:00

Oh yes, 4 days post partum she proper railed at me for laughing when she (in all seriousness) told me that I'd better 'up my game' with cooking and looking after her son as she was fed up of him spending time at hers (in my pregnancy with that child he would strop off to hers whenever I was tired looking after toddler and pregnancy, if toddler was ill as he didn't want to catch anything, when I was ill, when I caught him cheating etc ). I told her straight he'd demanded a divorce and I was all too happy to comply.

That's the only time I asked her to leave my house. Nasty woman.

Zakana · 28/10/2023 22:01

My classic Greek MIL, “All men cheat, they can’t help it”………as if it should be brushed over, ignored and forgotten about……errr ABSOLUTELY NOT! My 21 year old daughter couldn’t believe what she’d said!

Cornflowers35 · 28/10/2023 22:09

Ex MIL (well on the way to being ex) - On the phone, "I will fucking kill you".

Via text threatened to report me to social services. (I subsequently took her son to court for his behaviour.)

BlackFlyChardonnay · 28/10/2023 22:16

First time I cooked Christmas Dinner for my inlaws, MIL turned up with a whole cooked turkey "just in case" I mucked it up. She then sat there with a cat bum mouth when I pulled off a flawlessly 3 course feast for 9 and took her turkey home with her, untouched.

Itsnotchristmasyet · 28/10/2023 22:22

Iamnotalemming · 28/10/2023 21:54

Me, about to tuck into a Massive Salad.
Her, you're not going to eat ALL THAT are you??!!

She’s definitely an MNer!!!

🤣🤣

Itsnotchristmasyet · 28/10/2023 22:23

I’m really surprised how many MILs are against BF (I thought it would be the opposite).

And how common it seems to be that they think the wedding day is THEIR day.

Changedmymind99 · 28/10/2023 22:27

Celebrating a massive success in my career, publicly.

Well you couldn’t do it without DH.

Yes indeed, he does my work for me. And he does his own. How amazing his DH enabling my career.

Bitch!

ReadingSoManyThreads · 28/10/2023 22:27

dillydal · 28/10/2023 17:12

I'm always so staggered that the kid gets the dad's surname automatically with zero discussion.

Also staggered women still change their surname but that's a whole other topic

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No they don't. They get given whatever surname the person registering the birth gives the Registrar.

CrebillionFils · 28/10/2023 22:32

Hurt my back during pregnancy which meant I walked hunched over and developed scoliosis. Post surgery at my baby’s baptism (which she also mocked months earlier that my faith is a “fairy tail”) that “I looked better, because at (insert family member’s event) I looked like a hunchback.” This was said in front of all my close friends and her family.

She’s said and done much, much worse, but that comment was the end for me. It took so much courage to go out into the world when I knew I looked so freakish, but she confirmed my worst fears, that everyone behind my back thought that I looked like a hunchback. This at a time when I should have been enjoying my much longer for pregnancy.

I’ll be civil but the relationship is done for me now.

R11zz · 28/10/2023 22:34

I’m LC with mine. She tried to control our relationship and even told her relatives to call me a name that was clearly not mine. I hadn’t even met her. She was against breast feeding and I was sent to a separate room to breast feed. She talks about people I have never met and never shows any interest in my family. She’s a disinterested grandmother aswell. Thankfully my DH and I are on the same page. It annoys her when she doesn’t get her own way.

Wincarnis · 28/10/2023 22:34

Exh younger brother was getting married.
Big fuss, grand reception in swanky place. whistles, bells. Etc
exMIL “I want to show everyone that at least one of my sons can marry a girl from a good family…”

haribosmarties · 28/10/2023 22:34

My MIL rang my husband really late at night out of the blue (so uncharacteristic for her that my husband thought someone must have died when he saw her call) to suggest I was abusing our daughter. Because she had seen a picture of our 4 year old with a scratch on her face on Facebook which she sustained falling into a bush in the park.
Utterly unhinged. I haven't spoken to her since.

Changedmymind99 · 28/10/2023 22:35

One from my DM actually.
After DD was born…. I mentioned I gained 3 stone by the 40 weeks….(lost after!)

“Oh my god, I never put on any weight during my pregnancies that’s terrible to put on that much”

She was clearly a medical marvel for her time!

ItsGreyNotBlack · 28/10/2023 22:37

EmptyYoghurtPot · 28/10/2023 16:57

Just spent the day with mine ‘accidentally’ calling me by the ex wife’s name. They divorced nearly 20 years ago but she still has the wedding photo up in her lounge. I just laugh. We had to go to see her today as she had run out of money (DH and BIL have power of attorney and give her an allowance). Lo and behold once we got there she discovered the money in the bottom of a handbag! Exactly as SIL and had discussed yesterday! She can do no wrong in her boys’ eyes.
You have to laugh. And drink wine.

Good god, if the poor woman isnt even allowed to have control over her own money for whatever reason, I think you can forgive her for calling you the wrong name.

In our house, you might get a dog or cats name, and we aren’t in our dotage.

StrawberryWater · 28/10/2023 22:37

Had a miscarriage and all MIL could go on about was how upset my SIL was about it all (how much she'd been crying and had to take a day off work etc) like I was having the baby for her or something. Totally weird. SIL lives in another country by the way so it didn't impact on her at all and she rarely comes back home and doesn't have anything to do with the child DH and I had a few years later. Met him once. They're all strange though.

mimp · 28/10/2023 22:37

I couldn’t see a thread like this and not comment because even 20 years later it rankles me…
I’m 6/7 months pregnant with our second child and MIL helped with childcare with our first child. She used to drop him off in my work car park. As it happens that day a couple of colleagues were outside having a cheeky cigarette.
On drop off my MIL said very loudly now you have another baby on the way you don’t want (oldest son) so give him to me as you don’t need two that just greedy. I was so gobsmacked I was unable to answer and the really sad thing was she truly meant it. My DH didn’t believe me until it was backed up by my colleagues who had heard the whole thing.
It still rankles 20 years later and needless to say my children have subsequently been very protected from my MIL.

Chedderbites2 · 28/10/2023 22:38

Can I ask how you all still manage to maintain relationships with DP's with the MIL being so vile? Do you find your partners stick up for you or do they just keep out of it i.e. basically won't stick up for you with MIL. I found in existence i was told to just ignore her shes always like that no matter how much they upset me or made me cry it was always brushed under the carpet and they are all still mummies boys