URGENT Mother in Law

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  • PJ64
    PJ64 Posts: 866 Member
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    My Mother In Law is PERFECT! She doesn't speak english and lives in another country :drinker:
  • MsNewBooty83
    MsNewBooty83 Posts: 1,003 Member
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    My Mother In Law is PERFECT! She doesn't speak english and lives in another country :drinker:
    envy you!!!
  • Shrinking_Moody
    Shrinking_Moody Posts: 270 Member
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    What NOT to say: "Getting to know you better has made me understand where my husband gets his *kitten* behaviour from"


    Love this - and I may even use it.
  • MsNewBooty83
    MsNewBooty83 Posts: 1,003 Member
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    Anytime i can have a conversation with my mil without calling her a bigot is a success.

    other marks of success:
    not rolling my eyes so frequently that someone asks if om having a seizure.
    Not threatening her when she tries to convince my hubby that he should leave me.
    Not screaming her stupid every time she tells me im going to hell.
    Not laughing when she goes into hysterical sobbing whenever she sees her grandkids eat candy.
    Not asking her what the odds of a house falling on her are, since she lives in kansas.

    Be so sweet sugar wont melt in your mouth. then, as soon as lunch is over, get on here and let us know if you need to borrow a shovel

    bahahahaahhhhaaa!
  • Janet9906
    Janet9906 Posts: 546 Member
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    My Mother in law passed away from cancer almost 5 years ago, she was very sweet and treated me like her own daughter. I miss her!
    I feel sorry for all of you with Monster in laws!
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
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    I could tell you horror stories about my mother-in-law. I've been with my husband 10 years, married 8 of those years. I usually just make small talk, and bite my tongue a lot. I've only snapped on my husbands mom 3 times, which was for good reason, stupid B*tch!
  • NoMoreJellyRolls
    NoMoreJellyRolls Posts: 142
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    I cant help you here. Me and my mother-in-law get along GREAT! Of course, it wasnt always like that. We had a few blow outs and because I wouldnt back down from her or have my hubby fight my battles with her, it earned alot of repect in her eyes.

    But before our relationship has grown, she would say mean stuff like "your a beach whale gold-digger, only wanting my son for the inheritence from me, etc" I after the 2nd comment of that, I blew up on her and we had a few blow outs while I was pregnant but she has since backed off and calls me more than she does her son

    You could tell her "im as excited about lunch with you, as a pig is becoming bacon" LOL

    Goodluck
  • PunkyRachel
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
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    "You know, you really messed up with raising your son.. here's a quick list of everything I blame you for"

    hah! Was thinking along those same lines recently. Pity we can't actually hold the moms accountable :grumble:

    Hahaha.....my husbands tried that with his mom, one day he was all, "you reminder when I was 14 and you asked me to teach you to look up porn on the internet" She denied it. lmao she said "No I didn't do that, that would make me a bad mother"

    My husband, just for laughs will bring up stuff his mother did, she denies most of it. Says I wasn't a bad mother, you had a great childhood! It cracks me up.
  • Holly_penguin
    Holly_penguin Posts: 149 Member
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    After listening to a tirade about how "love isn't real" and "NEVER EVER get married" and "The worst thing I ever did was get married and have children" from my fiancee's mother IN FRONT of her kids and husband of 50 years I looked her straight in the eye and said, "Whew,I'm glad I'm just in this for the sex then"...shut her the HE double hockey stick up long enough to escape. Every family has it's disfunction, the one you grew up with is familiar to you so it seems less extreme than your significant other. Don't let her beat you down. If she is nasty, she must be an extremely unhappy person. Don't let her make you unhappy as well, then she wins.
  • nturner612
    nturner612 Posts: 710 Member
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    lol too funny of a topic.
  • klacount77
    klacount77 Posts: 270 Member
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    I can barely stand to be around my mother-in-law. After a long year of begging my husband and I for help financially ... we ... reluctantly ... moved into her house, with the kids. It has been the most torturous year of my life. It is almost over. We agreed to stay through the holiday season of 2011 and 2012 and then we were leaving. No negotiations. Moved in October of 2011 ... this month is a year ... 4 months to go. Al...most ... done!

    Any-hoo ...

    I would avoid sentences like

    "Wow, it is amazing that you and my mother are only 3 years apart. You look and act so much older."

    "No, please order whatever you wish, I'm buying. It's not often I get to watch someone binge before the purge, I find it interesting."

    "No, I haven't decided exactly how much weight to lose or if I will get plastic surgery to fix my little imperfections. But, if I do decide, I'll make sure not to go to your surgeon. I really don't like his work."

    "No, I don't feel that I have had too many children. Unlike you, I must have had more practice at procreation."

    Or you could use all of those lines if they fit the conversation ... I have used them all and suddenly, my MIL barely speaks to me and is SUPER supportive of our upcoming move and house hunting.

    "Bless her little heart."
  • Ruger2506
    Ruger2506 Posts: 309 Member
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    I have a grueling 3 hours until lunch with my mother in law. I barely slept last night because of the stress. I want to keep out of the @#$%%%^ field that I usually step in - and avoid saying potentially offensive things.
    Also - I NEEEEEED TO LAUGH.
    What are some of the things I should NOT say?

    Here's the one I thought of: "Well that's not the craziest thing you've ever said to me."

    Man I am glad my mom and my mother-in-law get along with both of us and don't get involved. Sorry to hear you didn't get that.
  • ReinasWrath
    ReinasWrath Posts: 1,173 Member
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    lol well at least you don't have to go to a damn sex toy party with her!! Mine invited me to one when I was like 17 0_o I mean what the hell was she trying to validate all the theories she had about her kid being a total perv? lol I didn't go cuz I couldn't decide how innocent I should act :laugh:

    I can imagine it now... "ohh look at this looks fun"

    me > "naw I already got 3 and they wear out real fast" LOL :grumble:
  • NikkiSixGuns
    NikkiSixGuns Posts: 630 Member
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    Let her do most of the talking. If she's like my MIL, she'll do fine. I could get into trouble when mine starts asking questions!

    MIL: So, when are you guys gonna have some kids?
    Me: Don't know. We're just having fun practicing making them, for now.

    MIL: Isn't my son awesome?
    Me: Yup. He's really worked through all the crap you put into his head as a kid.

    MIL: Didn't your mom teach you to iron?
    Me: Of course she did. But your son and I got them all messed up again before you got here.

    Another suggestion that works for me: if it's just her overbearing but harmless personality grating on me, I just smile, "uh-huh uh-huh" a lot, and remember that after she leaves, I'm just going to ignore whatever unwanted advice she gave me and do what I wanted to do in the first place.

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