You've met my MIL?MIL requests daily facetime calls and constantly mentions how she never gets to see her grandkids as we live out of state. Travels to see us and proceeds to doom scroll facebook for 80% of the trip.
You've met my MIL?MIL requests daily facetime calls and constantly mentions how she never gets to see her grandkids as we live out of state. Travels to see us and proceeds to doom scroll facebook for 80% of the trip.
I’m in a similar position. Absolute manipulative lying monster that guilt trips my wife constantly. Everything has to go her way. She got her azzz over her shoulders and said she would NEVER move to where we are for her care. Don’t threaten me with a good time, biznatch. It’s not like we don’t have a home, property, kids and jobs here that we can just walk away from. Oh, and she’s nearly broke for bailing her other kids out of their messes for the past 20 years. Those kids are so thankful to her, they are now full-time in house leaches. As far as I’m concerned, They can tend to crusty battle ax.My mother-in-law is a narcissist, passive aggressive bully that bosses her two daughters around and she lives with my sister-in-law and makes her life a living hell. She is not in good health and is basically bedridden, but she won’t go to a nursing home and she refuses to give my wife or sister-in-law power of attorney. She’s at the point where it’s very difficult for them to take care of her, but she refuses to go to a nursing home or other facility.
Goat:My opinion on this is that I'm not entitled to anything that isn't mine. Maybe that's crazy.
Not a thingMine are overall really good folks, but uptight about recycling to the point they'll go through about 10 gallons of (natural gas-heated) hot water to get a peanut butter container completely clean for the outside bin. I don't have the heart to tell them probably 80% or more of "recyclable" plastics are put in landfills or incinerated, these days.
They sure do come in handy when you're puking your guts up after your child has brought home from daycare/school the stomach bug for the 1,259th time.They'll pry my collection of krogers sacks from my cold dead fingers
Describes about a third of the rednecks In Mississippi. The rest of the rednecks are Ole Miss fans.Diehard alabama (football)
Never stepped foot on the campus
Don’t know there are other Alabama sports
Get so pissed when they lose no one can be around them.
When they do lose, they talk about how proud they are of the team yet can’t name any of the players correctly
Etc
Technically, yes. The money they inherited that they have zero intentions of saving a portion for the next generations.
I mean George Carlin said it best. Their philosophy is, "Gimme it, it's mine!"
I’m in a similar position. Absolute manipulative lying monster that guilt trips my wife constantly. Everything has to go her way. She got her azzz over her shoulders and said she would NEVER move to where we are for her care. Don’t threaten me with a good time, biznatch. It’s not like we don’t have a home, property, kids and jobs here that we can just walk away from. Oh, and she’s nearly broke for bailing her other kids out of their messes for the past 20 years. Those kids are so thankful to her, they are now full-time in house leaches. As far as I’m concerned, They can tend to crusty battle ax.
On one hand, the kind, Christian provider in me says you’ll have to bite the bullet and help this woman out some when she’s crippled and broke.
On the other hand, I’ve about convinced myself to just let the manipulative cuntshit lay in the bed she’s made. She wanted it this way, she can 17in have it.
Ha, by "us", you mean you and the other boomers (some of which may be Gen X who want and try to make everything hard on everybody as well). But then they are weakest on their kids of anybody.Everybody read what you said. Don't gaslight us, goat.
No, it was my mule. MIL considered it a kindred spirit.they were probably attracted to the 40 acres. I doubt it was the mule...
Question: I wonder how a nice, affable rollerblader from Iowa would handle her?![]()
Haha, thats a hell of a situation to manage.
I laughedAnd I'm not gaslighting. I'm straight up insulting
You seem upset. I think you can probably post your way through it.Ha, by "us", you mean you and the other boomers (some of which may be Gen X who want and try to make everything hard on everybody as well). But then they are weakest on their kids of anybody.
And I'm not gaslighting. I'm straight up insulting
You may be my long lost brother in law... do they live in orlando?My MiL was not an only child, but life centers/revolves around her all the same.
I'm 100% certain that she'd be labeled a conversational narcissist by a psychologist. Anything more than 5 seconds of silence makes her uncomfortable, so she’s constantly bringing up random topics about world events, work, family, etc. Then, within a few seconds of answering her question, she’ll find a way to turn the conversation back to something about herself or at least a topic that she loves.
Honestly, I don’t care all that much that she loves talking about herself. What drives me insane, though, is the way that she’ll weave all the things that I detest talking about into every conversation.
Man, that commercial brings back memories of the 70's with all the exercise gadgets they came out with.And the dubmass leg circulation seated peddle machine.
Been waiting for this oneWashes their hair in the kitchen sink.
If my wife or myself doesn’t unload the dishwasher, I’ll spend a few days looking for certain things after my MiL goes back home. We’ve lived in our house for ten years. She knows where we put things. The only thing my wife and I can think of is that she just puts things where she thinks they should go. We have a name for it.My MIL likes to volunteer to clean our house at certain times, I think out of boredom. My wife isn't slacking in that area but lets her do it for time to time. When she cleans, my MIL likes to relocate items on occasion and by "on occasion" I mean every single time. About a year ago, she relocated an important file I had for my business. I had to spend almost a month recreating the file. I found it 6 months later in a box that she had put under our bed with a lot of other random things for no known reason.
Other than that, she's pretty good people.
17 this is genius.Life hack: put it on the top rack of the dishwasher. Problem solved.
Technically, yes. The money they inherited that they have zero intentions of saving a portion for the next generations.
I mean George Carlin said it best. Their philosophy is, "Gimme it, it's mine!"
You strike a lot of nerves.I didn't say anything about mine. I am pointing out a behavior. Sounds like that strikes a nerve.
I bet you flex in front of the mirror don’t you.Ha, by "us", you mean you and the other boomers (some of which may be Gen X who want and try to make everything hard on everybody as well). But then they are weakest on their kids of anybody.
And I'm not gaslighting. I'm straight up insulting
Only on my OF page.I bet you flex in front of the mirror don’t you.
I don't have any in-laws now, but this would have been mine.It took some time but we moved past a lot of it. Now the biggest irritation is they let our toddler act like a total maniac and stay up until midnight and eat cookies and ice cream for all three meals and stuff like that, so the detox after those trips takes several days.
I liken it to if you ask someone to hold your bottle of soda while you go to the bathroom, then while you’re gone they shake it up for 5 minutes straight before they hand it back to you so that it explodes in your face. That is what it is like to get your toddler back from a visit to grandma’s house.
My MIL is a retired Episcopal rector.....on her 4th marriage in life....the last one...she is the nicest and most caring human you will ever meet, but my lord in heaven she is the slowest human being on earth....like, she and her husband have only about a 50% success rate on making their flights anywhere....and super needy....my brother in law and myself joke about it and our wives get tickled that we are joking at her expense ....
but that's not it....I discovered Nest thermostats because of her....Back around 2008/09, when she came to stay with us over the summers, she would get up in the night and move the thermostat to 80.....i normally keep it on 70 at night....i would wake up thinking i had died and woke up in hell....so I invested in a Nest thermostat and would control it from my app...she lost that war for years until we moved....now I have 3 of them...and she just about only comes to visit in the winter these days
Pics?Ha...MiL is an unhinged whacko.
She has 8+ yip yip dogs.
She was a nurse practitioner, got her license revoked in the state of Texas because she was willy nilly with prescribing. I never take medical advice from her because it always involves taking far too many pills.
When we had our daughter, the MiL was in delivery as fast as she could. When nurse was asking me daughters name, MiL insisted on spelling so it could be "like her".
Also while daughter was being born, she went to our house to cook us a brisket. She boiled it in liquid smoke. Yes, on the stove top.
Because she was a lifelong alcoholic, she now keeps about 6 different brewed teas ready for company. You may NOT refuse the offer either. You are getting one, so pick it.
They moved to Phoenix a few years back since we abandoned them in Austin. The MiL sent us a ton of family pics. One album is dedicated to all the boys my wife dated. Another has pics of the FiL 40th birthday party (they were alcoholic then), the MiL is there in a room of friends, wearing only a bustier and thigh highs, serving drinks.
When they come to visit, despite us having space, they have to stay in a hotel because given the down time, she turns it into a brutal nitpick session on her daughter and then eventually me.
Oh, and when at a restaurant, she doesn't mind butting into other tables to ask for tastes of food and suggestions.
Far too many little things along the way.
What the 17 you think this is, a movie theatre?Take their canned sodas in to restaurants