AUGH! My Mother-In-Law!

Inspired by Ignayshus.

Let's be honest, folks. Our families are... uh.. quirky enough, but mix in someone else's family and there's ALWAYS tension.

What does your Mother-In-Law (or other Family-Members-in-Law) do that just annoyed the heck outta ya.

I'm sure this is so mild compared to what others are going to say but my mother in law cleans my house and moves furniture!! It drives me NUTS! I am kind of a clean freak so the house is clean when she gets there but I swear she somehow manages to find something I missed. And she'll move the couch 2 or 3 inches to the left, put this picture frame over there, etc.

Oh, and let's not forget going into our bedroom like she owns the place! Sorry but my bedroom is MY SPACE, stay out!

Other than that, she is fantastic! ha ha ha

My boyfriends sister-in-law has to be the center of attention. She decided she didn't like me cuz when we went shopping once I took a friend with me and I didn't pay enough attention to her.

And when we're all together for dinner or something, the mom has to make separate things for her cuz she won't eat what everyone else eats.

And she accussed me once upon a time of dating my boyfriend only to get to her husband, my boyfriends twin brother.  As if!!

I'm a LEO and therefore I like attention, but not in the way she goes about getting it (creating scenes reminiscent of Jerry Springer)

Well, my MIL has been helping out a lot and picking up a lot of the slack with hubby being out of town for the past week - so she recently hasn't done anything.

But as a general thing:  Buying the kids all sorts of toys, videos, and generally spoiling them with stuff they don't need and claiming "Nana's privelege."  It's not so much the spoiling, but the fact that we don't need anymore stuff cluttering up our house.  But I don't have a lot of room to complain - she does so much for us that it's a fair trade off.

My M-I-L is in her 60's & is our neighbor & is a widow who lives alone.  Every other day she calls down to our house asking for help with something.  The other day it was a letter she got in the mail.  She wanted me to come up there & read it to her & explain it.  Mind you-she can see and read, she just wanted me to do it for her.  Whenever we all go out to eat together, she WILL NOT order for herself, she will tell one of us what she wants & we have to tell the server.  If we mow our grass or do something to our lawn, she will call us up and say "Somebody needs to come up here & help me do something.  I have lots of things that need to be done & somebody needs to help me."  Lately, everytime we leave to go somewhere & come back, she will call us & ask where we went & why didnt we take her with us or she will tell us, "the next time yall go out, let me go with you.  I need ________."  Then she will wait till we leave & come back & call & bless us out because we didnt take her along. 

I could go on all day......

Goes in all my bathrooms and turns the toilet paper so it rolls under instead of over.  First thing she does when she walks through my door, EVERYTIME.

My mother-in-law tells my hubby that he needs counseling because they have a bad relationship. 

Ok woman, maybe the fact that you have NEVER had a job, NEVER lived in your own place and NEVER done anything for him plays a roll in his choice to not like you much.  Granted, he still helps her out when she needs it (moving her this weekend, changes her oil and whatever maintenance she needs on her car, etc.)

Anyway, she cries to me all the time asking me to "Please, Ginger, he listens to you.  Tell him to come with me, I know this great doctor"  My response?  How the F you going to pay for it, cause I know we aren't!

On the other hand, my Step-mother-in-law is FABULOUS!

I feel so lucky that my husband has nothing to do with his crazy (literally) birth mom. The only in law's I have to deal with are aunt's that are 2,100 miles away, so the most I ever have to do is talk to them for 5 seconds if I'm the one that answers when they call.

My brother's wife is nice, though. We get along pretty well although she is sort of shy.

The list is so long to answer would be like a mother-in-law manifesto.

But as to not disappoint one of the caring and loving things she does is to chronicle other family members diseases, odd growths, rashes, bunions, and third degree burns complete with polaroid shots and enclose them in birthday, Christmas, and anniversary cards.

Her spiteful and wicked games I shall abstain from commenting on till after I sacrifice a lamb this Sunday and anoint the door in its purified blood to stem off evil passive disappointed winds born from her Eastern stronghold.

Bagga-

You are truly a nut!!! I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait!!! Hey I actually like my mother-in-law... how do I always get dragged into these things?...

She's snarky and sometimes makes veiled or not-so-veiled insults at me.  For example, we keep our dogs inside, and I'm a vegetarian.  That makes me an animal rights activist and tree hugger.  Well, not that I mind those terms but to her they are insults.  They live out in the country and pretty much live on red meat and bacon grease, and it's unheard of to keep dogs or cats in the house - they belong outside!  And who gives a crap about the environment - we burn tires and dump oil out into the fields.  Upon meeting someone for the first time she will introduce me as her son's wife (not as her DIL) and she's an animal rights activist.  I always correct her and say no, I'm not, I work in insurance. 

She also often laughs and rolls her eyes to whatever I say, so I generally just keep my mouth shut around her as much as possible.  SHE knows best and I never have any clue what I am talking about (even when she is obviously wrong).  I also can't do anything right - once I was peeling potatos and she freaked out and asked me if I had ever peeled a potato before (gimme a break!) because there was tiny bits of skin still left on.  Well I don't spend hours making sure every possible microscopic piece of skin is taken off - I just take off the majority and it's good.  But she grabbed the potato from me and whittled the thing down to the size of a marble so that she could show me how it's supposed to be done.  My only comment was you sure wasted a lot of good potato.

Yet with my SIL (her other's son's wife) she is all lovey-dovey and huggy... once I walked into the house and she was like "oh hi, it's you" and turned and walked away.  Then SIL walked in a few minutes later and MIL ran to the door and threw her arms around her like she hadn't seen her in years.

She has gotten better over the past year or so, though.

Edited to add:  On the other hand, I'm not sure who has it worse: me or DH.  My mom is no cup of tea either.  Although she's a lot nicer than my MIL, she is very annoying and complains constantly.

alibuch-

good one, that or put kleenex in there instead.  Flip  that one over Granny!!

NO WAY! I agree with sexything, the roll goes OVER.

Yep, it should roll over.