My in laws are worse than yours

[bibliothecary]

Let's compete. Winner gets...hell, I don't know. Bragging rights?

My in laws are worse than yours because...

They live 10 minutes away and haven't seen their only grandchild in months.

Your turn!

[chickie]

My MIL reached over and fastened the strap of my nursing tank once.

[chickie]

But honestly I think @littlestjerry may win this thread

[redbears]

They want to be cytogenetically frozen upon death

[bibliothecary]

Feb 29, 2016 18:06:25 GMT -5 Jesslfar said:

Mine took my dog.

EVIL.

[goldenbird]

Feb 29, 2016 18:04:04 GMT -5 @nochill said:

Because MIL is a prescription drug addicted alcoholic who thinks she deserves time with F and threatens to sue us for grandparent rights.

Wtf?? You may win this.

[goldenbird]

Feb 29, 2016 18:09:25 GMT -5 @mrsjohnmarston said:

They told me that if I didn't cut my parents out of my life, then they would stop talking to my husband. This was two days before I was scheduled to be induced with my first child.

What the hell?

[valie]

Hi, I'm new here, but I can compete in this one.

... because we haven't seen or heard from FIL since DS was 3 days old because we gave him my last name.

[Deleted]

FIL has made zero effort to meet his only grandchild. His priority was buying a new dog. The only reason he has met my 2 yo once is because we were at the same funeral.

[nobb14]

My in laws are worse than yours because FIL corners me during visits to tell me he's not MHs "real" father.


FIL cheated on his wife (they are still married) with my MIL resulting in MH. He was raised by his mother but his father was always in the picture in some capacity, alongside his half siblings. MH is also the spitting image of FIL.

As if that shits not painful enough he has to play the denial card. Holidays are fun.

[queenofwildthings]

Doesn't count, but when H was with his XW, her family made him sit at a "kids" table, by himself in another room to eat dinner because he was a "yankee"
Eta. I don't understand exactly, they are from the south, H from the north.

[queenofwildthings]

Feb 29, 2016 18:33:01 GMT -5 @aditi said:

Feb 29, 2016 18:31:43 GMT -5 queenofwildthings said:

Doesn't count, but when H was with his XW, her family made him sit at a "kids" table, by himself in another room to eat dinner because he was a "yankee"

::blink blink::

I still don't know what, how,or why but yep...

[Emmentaler]

Mine is narcissistic and always plays the victim. She will get her way through sheer wearing down until the other person is exhausted.

She has emotionally manipulated her kids their whole lives and it has caused them to have trust issues. MH works on it a lot.

I call her a Southern Belle Bully.

BUT... compared to others, no winner, winner chicken dinner for me. And that's okay.

[shanadoo]

I'm so sorry guys. Man, I'm lucky.

[shanadoo]

Feb 29, 2016 18:31:43 GMT -5 queenofwildthings said:

Doesn't count, but when H was with his XW, her family made him sit at a "kids" table, by himself in another room to eat dinner because he was a "yankee"
Eta. I don't understand exactly, they are from the south, H from the north.

So, he just took it? He's grown, right?

[valie]

After reading some of these I'm kinda starting to think mine did us a solid by stepping out of our lives.

[NariaDreaming]

My MIL insisted on moving in with us, lied about how bad her health was, and then died in my guest room 5 weeks later

[snowbigdeal]

Wut

[bibliothecary]

Petition to make this the drinking thread.

[Deleted]

Mine talk in their own language even when they're in mixed company. Then they complain loudly that I don't understand.

Most of them firmly believe that I don't have any real culture, and that I should just adopt their ways for everything.

I've been told several times that it's of utmost importance that my children only learn their customs.

They call incessantly, at all hours of the day.

Oooh and apparently they find my name hilarious. They think it's made up no matter how many times I've told them what it means.

But still they're not as bad as some of these people in this thread.

[ViolinsOnTV]

Feb 29, 2016 18:36:00 GMT -5 theophania said:

You guys are making me thankful for my in laws. Although honestly I have things I could say here, but I probably just shouldn't. I'll just say my MIL and one SIL really don't like me. I'm pretty much invisible to them unless they need me to do something for them.

Like make a sandwich?

[redbears]

Feb 29, 2016 18:57:26 GMT -5 Fearsy said:

She was also really angry that we didn't tell her that C was breech when we found out at 39 weeks. DON'T CURR.

I really can't understand why

[ThinGoldLine]

My MIL was high on coke when she watched our daughter when I went back to work when she was 4 months old. Thankfully I was only back at work for 3 weeks and was home sleeping during the day while she was there (I work 12 hour night shifts). But, we didn't find out about this until 1 month after.

SFIL went on a bender shortly before our daughter was born and ended up committed for a month. Right before that, he was using my fiancé's name to get work, and when he stopped performing the work after taking the money for the job, my fiancé had to finish the work, uncompensated, so that his name wouldn't be tarnished.

FIL has been using fiancé's SSN to run a business up until the end of last year. He finally took everything out of his name at the end of 2014, but was dealing with the IRS on some other shady shit until the end of 2015. I am also the devil because I'm the uppity white bitch that encouraged his son to be a better man.

SMIL - I'm the uppity white bitch because I don't break laws (they have pulled several insurance jobs amongst other things), I work for local government, and I actively parent my child.

And, just this past weekend, one SIL has told their brother (one of my fiancé's bothers from his mom) that her daughter, our niece, isn't allowed to be around BIL because he's gay and that is causing their 2 yo daughter to be confused. FTR, not only is my BIL gay, but MY 2 youngest sisters are as well, and they happen to be 2 of my fiancé's best friends - so she just shit on both sides of our family.

Tl;dr - my in-laws are one fucked bunch

[Justbecause]

My FIL has said that if my children turn out to be gay, then he will disown them.

Mil begged me not to put my oldest in daycare and agreed to watch him two days a week.
One month in, she quits with no notice.

She's also very passive agressive and plays the "I'm old and going to die soon" card all the time. My kids call her "old grandma" even though my mom is older.

[cosmicav]

My ILs are actually great people and I am overall thankful for them. MY family, on the other hand........

[Emmentaler]

Feb 29, 2016 18:57:28 GMT -5 bibliothecary said:

Petition to make this the drinking thread.

I just came in here to say this.

I have wine.

[bibliothecary]

I can see I need to step up my game here. My in laws still talk about bonnie, the ex. The ex of over a decade ago. Apparently, she was awesome. Except I know her. And she's a tramp. And she cheated on MH. A lot.

They didn't talk to me the first year at holiday dinners because they thought I wasn't going to last.

My FIL has told me many times about how slender MH's previous GFs were. And how MH "must really like [my] cooking". Yep, because there's no other conceivable reason why anyone would date a fat chick.

My MIL was mistaken for a work friend at my shower because she didn't want to claim me as her DIL. She didn't talk to anyone.

They still call their only grandson the wrong name.

[goldenbird]

My in-laws annoy the hell out of me at times, but damn! I'm thankful that all they are is annoying.
The strength y'all have is admirable!

[kellwhy]

SO's parents aren't too bad, but his mom definitely eats ALL the crackers. She is kind of a bully, but she always acts like the victim. She lies on the couch even though that means everyone else has to sit on dining room chairs. She says things like, "do you EVER comb her hair" and she leaves every fucking drawer and cabinet open.

SO's dad is fine, but he basically ignored me for the first 5ish years.

[joi922]

My ILs sound like Trump, and are definitely voting for him. They're racists, and have told me that the way to fix this country is to kick all the immigrants out. Apparently the fact that their ancestors were immigrants is irrelevant.

They think chicken broth is fine for a vegetarian (me) and then tell me I like a bird. Nope, just nothing vegetarian friendly.

My MIL threatened not to come to our wedding because she thought I was Catholic. She didn't actually ask. She just talked to my grandmother, discerned that she is Catholic, and assumed. She was very concerned that I would be trying to convert her son to idol worshipping. I'm an atheist, by the way.

My MIL is a hoarder. Like the worst you've seem on TV - that's her. There are rooms in her house she can't go into because things are piled to the celing. The other rooms just have goat paths through the piles. All thr kids uave agreed that grandkids arr not allowed over there because it's such a hazard.