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rotten in-law stories?
just for fun. i go first. i have an evil sister-in-law.
1. 4 months before our wedding she told DH's ex-girlfriend she wished he was marrying her
2. 1 week after wedding she posts about 100 pictures on facebook from our wedding. i am not in a single one of them. not one.
whaddya got???
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Re: rotten in-law stories?
I know this sounds crazy, but my IL's are the kindest, most thoughtful and forgiving people ever.
My best example is that when we got engaged, my SIL gave me an adorable address book filled out with all of the family members, including extended family--with post-it notes explaining who was related to who! How awesome is that??
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...
- that's horrible
Oh I have lots.....
1. When I was going in for my 2nd u/s to confirm that the baby had died, my MIL asked me if my migraines meds could have caused me to m/c. I said I wasn't taking them at the time and she proceeded to argue with me that in fact I did take them.
2. I am hosting a couples shower for FSIL and BIL they have decided to invite 134 people.....
3. MIL has out right called me a spoiled brat because I don't like camping.
4. FSIL whines constantly and talks in a baby voice all the time!
5. BIL refused to speak to me for 5 months after we got married because he just didn't like me. Maybe because I stood up to him because he's a jerk!
6. Said BIL also left my name off a group gift we had gotten FIL just to be an ASSS!!! This was after we were married!
7. MIL calls DH her baby and her baby needs to live closer to his mommy...bleh!
8. For said couples shower above FSIL demanded that we invite everyone's children!
I will spare you the rest!
WTF??! please tell me you are punking me right now!
It's not crazy. I have no scary stories to share about my in-laws. They are too nice, if anything - their fault is being too nice!
no and my FIL taped it. She took it from me and held it up in front of her and said she was going to keep it but her boobs were too small. Meaning not only had her dead sister worn it, she had also had it on.
O.M.G. Gross!
The IL's were helping us pay for the reception....however, they didn't want to personally right the check to the reception hall because they didn't want to be "liable" if anyone (ahem...anyone referring to my friends and family) were to get out of control, drunk, etc. So they wrote both Jim and I each a check that we had to deposit in the bank and then write a check ourselves.
Of course we were grateful they were helping us out, but talk about rude! And then to top it off, we got lectured because we didn't thank them for writing the checks. We had already thanked them a million times over for helping pay for the wedding. But we didn't thank them for the checks. Why would we thank them for something made things more of a PITA and was really offensive to us? Jim set them straight on that one and they shut up after that.
Oh, and for the Bridal Shower...none of Jim's family was invited (except mom, sister and aunt) because she thought we were "double dipping" and wanted to get presents from everyone twice (from shower, then from wedding). Um....wtf?
I'm glad that's all over with.
I would also like to add that when I m/c MIL started telling me how sad she was and how she was heartbroken and how my SIL was so excited for a cousin near her child's age. We then got a card from her and it was all about her! Now I am not a selfish person, but at this point I was being selsfish, and I could barely hold myself together let alone console her! Sorry lady, it wasn't about you, it was about DH and I!
Might I also add that my FIL is the best guy ever!
That is really cute. Fortunately my MIL is awesome. FIL and other SIL are awesome too. The only issues seem to be with the baby SIL.
Oh wow I could write a book on my IL's
1. For our wedding they didn't offer to even host a rehersal dinner and about a month before the wedding were pissed that my parents were hosting it. Um hello you didn't offer. They then asked what was left that they could do and I said the only thing was sour chairs, outdoor wedding. They said okay we will pay for those but 2 days before the wedding they decided it was a waste of money and they thought people should just stand. Um okay 150 people stand for 45 mins, I don't think so.
2. They accuse me of being spoiled, controlling and I ruined DH's relationship with his brother, um nope what ruined that was that DH's brother is a drug addict and stole and sold $2000 worth of DH's stuff.
3. When they come over they are so disrespectful that DH's dad parks on our lawn and throws his coffee cups on our lawn and not in the garbage.
1. My SIL got legally married on my 21st b-day in March (on a "random" Wednesday ) but had the wedding in September. So for my birthday we had to go to the court house and to this day they celebrate both dates for their anniversary. So my bday gets a little dismissed by the IL's.
Feb Siggy Challenge
oh me....
1. My SIL and MIL took me out to a "nice girls lunch" a month before our wedding, only to confront me with the fact that my DH and I were not allowed to get married on the date WE picked, all because it was during hunting season. Also, we'd never broken up, therefore we did not realize how much we loved each other. A break-up was in order before we could get married. WTF?!
2. My MIL dared us to have kids... literally. She said that the economy, along with the fact that my SIL doesn't have children yet, we're reason enough for us to never have children.
3. My FIL will not let my family in his house. They get along GREAT in public, but he won't let them step foot in his house.
My in-laws were a little crazy in the beginning, but not so much now.
Hubs Aunt decided to take it upon herself and register for us.
My ex-sil told me my wedding dress looked like a prom dress, that I wasn't good enough for my ex-husband...
Also, after getting engaged to my ex-husband I wrote her a letter saying how excited I was to finally have a sister.
Her reply: "You just have to accept that I resent you. I have been the only daughter-in-law in this family for seven years..."
Luckily, my DH's family are great.
OaD August siggy challenge- fav show that's off the air:
DH and I have serious problems with my MIL as of late. The funny thing is, it's not between me and MIL, mostly him. He's an only child, and the woman sees him 2 or 3 times a week, and had the nerve to yell at him last week about how he was "pushing them out of his life." There's a lot to it, and it's getting pretty ridiculous. But recently, she's started showing up uninvited to our house and complaining when I'm studying that I'm not being hospitable.
Two weeks ago, she called DH, said they were bringing dinner over so we shouldn't cook. They got there before I got back from class, sat down and started eating because I told them not to wait for me. When i got home, they're sitting at my kitchen table, and she looked at me, smiled and said, "We tried to save you some, but we were just so hungry that there's nothing left!"
DH lost it and made them leave.
I think Abby wins, but here are a few of my jems:
1.) MIL pitched a fit that none of her friends (who I didn't know) weren't invited to my bridal shower. At my bridal shower, MIL pitched a fit that DH come too, and kept badgering me until he did show up.
2.) The first thing my SIL said to my mother, right when DH and I got engaged, was she "can't wait for her kids to have cousins."
3.) DH and I were going on vacation. We had asked MIL months in advance if she would watch the dog. She said yes. We reconfirmed numerous times, she said yes. The day before the trip, she said she never agreed to it, doesn't want to, and we only talk to her when we need something (not true!).
4.) Thanksgiving this last year, we asked both families if they wanted to come over to our house. MIL gave her typical snotty answer of "I have no plans." The days before T-day, MIL said we never formally asked her, she's not coming if her H is comign (they don't get along), I'm not a nice person, and it's a big inconvenience for her (sorry an f-ing free meal is such an inconvenience). She wanted to be begged to come so she would look the the person who saved the day. There's a lot more, but there isn't enough words right now.
Now, that is just weird. Does he allow you in the house?
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Don't sound crazy to me. I love my ILs. They are remarkable people.
eww Creepy!
Feb Siggy Challenge
While I'm not close with my in-laws, I don't think they're evil. They're nice people and are generous to a fault. They're just very, very different from my fun, laidback family. They're sort of uptight and it's very hard to carry on a conversation with them. For this reason, I usually feel a little tense and uncomfortable around them. Unless I've been drinking - that always seems to help.
At worst, they're irritating, but they always mean well. Such was the case a couple of times during the planning of our wedding, as well as during the weekend of our wedding itself. They just seem to have a lot of anxiety about larger social situations and don't really handle them well. It caused me to have some lingering resentment towards them, but I've since tried to forgive and forget. And for about a year after the wedding, they were really annoying about dropping not-so-subtle baby hints, even though DH and I were nowhere near ready to TTC. DH finally had to have a little Come-to-Jesus talk with them about that.
I guess the funniest "WTF!" story I like to tell about my MIL is how, one year for Christmas, she gave me this godawful long, shapeless Henley-style nightgown. It was red with little white snowflakes and sort of looked like a nightgown I had when I was 5. It was decidedly NOT sexy. All I could think when I opened it was, "You want us to have a baby? Seriously? And you think going to bed in THIS is going to get the job done?"
WOW mymee that was cruel!
My BIL told DH a week before Thanksgiving this past year that I am only married to him for his money then proceeded to call me a hussy, MIL and FIL agreed. (BIL is 27, jobless, and living with his parents. FIL gas been jobless for years because he is lazy and MIL has a part-time job.)
MIL and FIL come over when I am at work just to see DH. (he works one week then is off one week) They quickly leave when I get there or leave right before I get there. They usually come over right when I go to work.
wildwest- sounds like my SIL. shes a biiitch.
DH's fathers side is awesome. I love them to pieces. No problems ever and they have always treated me like one of their own.
DH's mothers side is currently being jerks to me. But they live far away so I am not worried. This all goes back to my crazy SIL!!! My MIL has her moments too.
We had this exact same issue with my in-laws re: our rehearsal dinner. They didn't mind hosting the dinner (a BBQ) but they decided it was going to be "dry" because they didn't want to be held liable in case anyone drank and got into an accident on the way home. Which, yes, is a legitimate concern. However, before rationally thinking through possible solutions to this conflict, they irrationally picked up the phone, called DH, and dumped the entire issue on him in a panicked tizzy (they did the same thing when they realized they had a family conflict with our original wedding date - they don't handle conflict well). DH then fed off their anxiety and dumped the problem on me, which caused a huge fight between us, which only added to my resentment (at the time) towards my in-laws. In the end, the solution was a simple one - they took out a small insurance policy and that was that. We had beer and wine at our rehearsal dinner, which I'm sure our guests - many of whom had traveled far and were ready to relax a bit - really appreciated. But I was so pissed at the time at all the drama their irrational panic had caused. DH finally came around, realized the error of their ways, had to have a little talk with them after that about not calling us at the first sign of conflict and making THEIR problems OUR problems.
Oh, I know this feeling. My MIL called me the other day to find out where I was on my way home. She had gotten off of work early, and I was going grocery shopping. DH is a teacher and is off earlier. When I got home, she was there, just about to leave
I smiled at her, and in the nicest voice I could manage, I said, "Oh, I wish you would have told me you were stopping by when you called me!" Later on, DH told me she played it off and acted like she were disappointed I wasn't coming straight home from work.
Our in-laws may be related.
Ever since things have been really strained in my relationship with her.
My DH got a broken watch for his birthday from his mom and a check for 13.76 from his dad. ?I feel bad for DH.?
FIL wore a tee shirt and sneakers to our aunt's wedding
FIL cursed at my mom when my mom asked him to pay for the open bar at the wedding.
FIL calls DH and only talks sports. ?No "how are you?" ?nothing about his life. only sports.?
MIL almost got uninvited to our wedding because two weeks before she said she was going to sue DH for money he owed her (not much BTW) and prevent him from every being able to buy a house by making sure it ended up on his credit (her words). She also proceeded to say she needed to have a talk with me to make sure I "know who she is marrying".
I have never formally met my BIL, first time I saw him (DH and I ran into him at a concert) he proceeded to tell DH he better watch his back because he may come around a corner at anytime and stab him. Since then, their relationship has gotten better but I still have never actually "met" him.
SIL is a total biznatch, she does not speak to DH and hasn't for years. It's a looooong story but she is in the wrong in the situation. I was introduced to her at DH's cousins wedding where she proceeded to act like DH wasn't even standing there. Every attempt he made to speak to her she would walk away. MIL also spent the entire wedding telling DH he was the oldest and he needed to go talk to her and fix things.
So pretty much, my in laws suck, I wish DH's father was still alive, he's the only one DH was ever close to! His death was also the start of the spiral that has things how they are now!
Yup, this is another thing my in-laws did pertaining to our wedding that caused some tension between us. DH and I really did not want any kids under the age of 12 at our wedding (other than the ringbearer and flower girl). We didn't put it on the invitation, of course, but it was generally known and all of our friends with young children were extremely respectful of our wishes and actually looked forward to a night out without the kids. But not my in-laws. My SIL's son - my in-laws' first grandchild - was 18 months old at the time and they absolutely insisted on bringing him to both the ceremony and reception because they wanted to show him off. We put our foot down on the ceremony - no crying babies, no way, no how - and provided a nursery at the church. But we lost the battle with the reception, although we did make it clear that only "adult" food was going to be served. Of course, this went right over their heads and halfway through the reception, my SIL asked one of the cater waiters if he had any breadsticks. When told no, DH's uncle took it upon himself to berate the staff until they provided some sort of bread product for my 18-month-old nephew. That royally pissed me off when I found out about it the next day.
Oh, and my MIL parked my nephew's stroller right next to the little private table DH and I sat at during dinner. It was in every picture the photographer took of us and he generously edited it out of each of them because he said it was an eyesore (which it was). Also, after she parked it there, she walked over to us and joked that "this wasn't a hint!" which, of course, was a hint.
In all fairness, none of his family actually meant any harm or malice. They're all just generally clueless.
Some of these are hilarious.
I have a crazy MIL, but I am afraid to post stories about her. I feel like when I mention her name she can somehow hear me or see what I said. She's scawy.
We had the exact opposite fight. MIL wanted NO children at the wedding, but all of my family has children, and I'm close to a lot of them, so I couldn't invite some and not others. So, we put on the invitation specific names of who was invited and let everyone know that first cousin's children WHO WE KNEW (didn't have to be close to, but we had to at least meet the child) would be invited.
DH has an aunt he never talks to, cousins he never met, who all have teenaged kids he never met. By our rule, none of them would be invited. MIL told them that they were all invited, with all their kids, and all their kids could have dates. That's 40 extra people total that showed up.
No, she did NOT pay the extra per person fee.