Things your in-laws do that make you irrationally insane
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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...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.
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.
Goat:
pre-shitting his in laws for being stingy cuntshits
and post-shitting them for exercising ownership of their own money
The only thing that irritates me about my in-laws is that they died way too young.
Mother-in-law in a car wreck killed by a truck driver that had driven to Chicago and back from Houston, MS without stopping. She was 49 and sitting behind two cars waiting to turn and he just barrled through and killed her. The Hwy patrol took the truck driver away from scene and never charged him with anything. There was a settlement but lawyers got most of that and cancer the rest.
Father-in-law - lung cancer at 65.
Two of the best people I ever knew. Sorry to see them gone but if you believe in the after life, my wife and daughter are up there with them.
LOVE THE ONES YOU WITH! Soon, they may be gone.
Mother-in-law in a car wreck killed by a truck driver that had driven to Chicago and back from Houston, MS without stopping. She was 49 and sitting behind two cars waiting to turn and he just barrled through and killed her. The Hwy patrol took the truck driver away from scene and never charged him with anything. There was a settlement but lawyers got most of that and cancer the rest.
Father-in-law - lung cancer at 65.
Two of the best people I ever knew. Sorry to see them gone but if you believe in the after life, my wife and daughter are up there with them.
LOVE THE ONES YOU WITH! Soon, they may be gone.
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.
Describes about a third of the rednecks In Mississippi. The rest of the rednecks are Ole Miss fans.
Keep in mind George said that 30 years ago. Boomers are no longer in charge. It's more of younger crowd running things and it's not going well.
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
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No, it was my mule. MIL considered it a kindred spirit.
Question: I wonder how a nice, affable rollerblader from Iowa would handle her?
Haha, thats a hell of a situation to manage.
Answer: That fire-breathing biittch would eat him alive.
No major complaints. My MIL always has pretty good weed so that’s nice.
My in-laws are absolute saints. They are among my dearest friends. It's my parents that are tough to deal with.
Wow, threads like these (and many others) makes you appreciate what you have/had. FIL could be grumpy but we got along (it was my wife that got into it with him). MIL was a saint and my wife always said she thought she liked me more than her. Zero point zero complaints.
Mine cannot make a decision to save her life. I can count on one hand in 25 years the number of times she has been on time.
She also sees the worst case scenario in every situation. To a point where it's depressing. Someone gets a cold, they are going to die. COVID was an adventure.
She also sees the worst case scenario in every situation. To a point where it's depressing. Someone gets a cold, they are going to die. COVID was an adventure.
Mine refuse to attempt an understanding of how Roku works in that it is only a delivery vehicle for the different services they want to stream.
They also refuse to write down ANY passwords so when they call because they can’t watch YTTV and “something is wrong with Roku” I have to walk them through resetting their login.
I finally threw up my hands last year when (yet again) explaining the difference between SECN+ and ESPN+ and the relationship between the two.
Between YTTV, Hulu and AppleTV.. I’m pretty sure my FiL is currently paying for 3 subscriptions to ESPN+ just so he can watch SEC sports… which are already included with a base YTTV sub.
I’m just done with the whole thing… otherwise they’re a’ight.
They also refuse to write down ANY passwords so when they call because they can’t watch YTTV and “something is wrong with Roku” I have to walk them through resetting their login.
I finally threw up my hands last year when (yet again) explaining the difference between SECN+ and ESPN+ and the relationship between the two.
Between YTTV, Hulu and AppleTV.. I’m pretty sure my FiL is currently paying for 3 subscriptions to ESPN+ just so he can watch SEC sports… which are already included with a base YTTV sub.
I’m just done with the whole thing… otherwise they’re a’ight.
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You seem upset. I think you can probably post your way through it.
Mine are great. Wife and I have some differences in how we grew up in terms of work expectations, roles, etc. but all minor. I guess the only thing is they have tiny beds they want us to stay in when we visit and seem offended when I say I’d rather get an AirBnB, so I just roll with it and sleep awful for a few days.
After reading this thread all at once tonight, though, the Kroger bag hoarding hits home. What in the actual 17 is that about. Are people who do that planning to go back to elementary school and pretend they can’t afford a lunchbox.
we recycle but that’s mostly because my wife buys so much stuff from Amazon that we need a second trash can anyway for the cardboard
After reading this thread all at once tonight, though, the Kroger bag hoarding hits home. What in the actual 17 is that about. Are people who do that planning to go back to elementary school and pretend they can’t afford a lunchbox.
we recycle but that’s mostly because my wife buys so much stuff from Amazon that we need a second trash can anyway for the cardboard
Man, that commercial brings back memories of the 70's with all the exercise gadgets they came out with.
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.
“Hey, have you seen the colander?”
“Not in a few days. Probably got ‘Lynda’d’…”
We have 1 remote- a roku.
My MIL never figured out and it continues to befuddle my FIL.
Every visit, my MIL would claim she can't figure out 'all our remotes' and would complain that she can't watch TCM, despite me putting it in the first few app tiles specifically for her.
Meanwhile, they literally had 3 remotes- a TV remote, a speaker remote, and a cable remote...and they used all 3 each time they watched TV because they wouldn't program the cable remote to control the TV and speaker.
Just a total WT17.
My MIL never figured out and it continues to befuddle my FIL.
Every visit, my MIL would claim she can't figure out 'all our remotes' and would complain that she can't watch TCM, despite me putting it in the first few app tiles specifically for her.
Meanwhile, they literally had 3 remotes- a TV remote, a speaker remote, and a cable remote...and they used all 3 each time they watched TV because they wouldn't program the cable remote to control the TV and speaker.
Just a total WT17.
Mine are definitely your prototypical boomer type folks that tend to think it’s all about them and everything should be changed to how they want it while they visit us. Have come to accept that and just roll with it, but it’s their damn dogs that bark NONSTOP that drives me crazy. They have 2 large ish dogs that freak out at anything and everything. I try to put them away but they say oh where are the dogs let’s bring them back out with us I miss them. And so it goes…
My mother in law did this to my wife in high school.
I don't have any in-laws now, but this would have been mine.
At their house, my kids would get up at midnight and want a snack - "sure honey, want me to make you some waffles with syrup and powdered sugar? And would you like 3 mountain dews to wash it down? Whatever you want, honey"
Then I'm left to deal with the consequences for the next week until I can reset that expectation bar back down low where it's supposed to be.
What the 17 you think this is, a movie theatre?