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mikeandcristina
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MIL horror stories...
mikeandcristina
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It's been a long week and could use a laugh... have any good MIL horror stories?
We put my 12 year old Siamese down on Tuesday due to major behavioral changes - she began attacking our dogs if they were loud, and bit me pretty badly on Sunday - we were concerned she would go after a screaming baby in a heart beat... our vet has suspected a brain tumor for a while due to other issues she was having, so while it wasn't out of the blue, I'm having a really hard time with it...
So, ladies, tell away! I could really use the pick me up!
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Re: MIL horror stories...
My Mil thinks that any time something bad happens to a woman who has had IVF that it is God's way of saying he is not okay with IVF/fertility treatments. She thinks Kate Gosselin's life sucks because she went against what is natural.
Everytime she starts saying things about fertility and IVF I want to punch her. She had three easy pregnancies and loves to tell me "I basically just got pregnant the second we started talking about it!"
She also has no idea of our struggles with fertility. Which makes me want to punch her a little more.
That made me laugh, thanks. I'm sorry about what you've gone through, but I think that gives you the right to go ahead and punch her... feel free to do so and let us know what the outcome is.
That is one of our top picks too! Neither my mom nor my MIL like it...but my MIL also used VERY "normal" names for all 7, yes 7 of her children. She's pain in the a$$ anyways ;P Don't get me wrong, she raised my husband who I wouldn't the for the world but really? Lets not judge the your future grandchild's name!
For the porn...
Hahahaha! Well at least you know what to get her for Christmas... nothing says "Ho, Ho, Ho" like a gift card to a sex store! Too bad she's ex, you'd have blackmail ammo if she ever crossed you
If we didn't already have one picked out, I would seriously consider it. The problem with them were, which makes it even more bizarre, is that they were mostly ethnic... none of which would work for a little white girl!
LMAO i think she'd be mortified...she would beg for forgiveness as soon as she walked in the doors!!!!!
I have plenty of MIL stories...
1. My MIL was visiting when Mathieu's cord stump fell off and she wanted to compare my belly button with his.. weird. I didn't want to but she insisted. As soon as I lifted my shirt she gasped like she was in pain and started telling me about a show she watched on burn victims having laser surgery to remove their scars... Yep she compared my stretchmarks to a burn victim's scars.. nice eh?
2. We are naming this baby Everett William. She hates it because its not after her family (she told us a few months earlier that we couldn't use any family names because my DF kept his dad's last name instead of switching it to hers). Anyways, she called one day and told my DF that all the kids at school were going to pick on him and call him Evita if we named him Everett.. ok?! If thats the worst thing you can come up with, its definitely a winner in my book.
I can keep going and going lol...
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She sounds like a peach. I seriously doubt when it comes to nicknames from kids they would pin Evita on him. SERIOUSLY doubt it.
She sounds... interesting? I've never heard of stretch marks being compared to a burn victim... she is apparently like my mother and has no censor. DH has an uncle named Everett, and I love the name. Do you ever get to the point where you just want to give it back to her? I'm having a really hard time keeping my mouth shut these days... especially this week.
This is most likely TMI, but it makes me laugh and I thought I'd share... As for cord stumps... that reminds me of my uncle, who saved my little cousin's stump and would carry it in his pocket... until my aunt washed it and it got covered in lint... then he would still carry it. Gross? Oh yes, makes me want to vomit. He would get it out and show it to us kids, it was nasty brown and covered in blue lint. But this is the same side of the family that is banned from hosting Thanksgiving due to them serving raw turkey one year (we ended up microwaving it).... so it's to be expected. And it wouldn't suprise me if he still has it! (and my cousin is 18 now).
Families are bizarre.
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My mother-in-law is convinced that our baby is DH. Meaning, baby will be exactly like DH was as a baby.
DH was a big baby, so she keeps asking me if the doctors have told me yet how huge the baby is going to be. (Um, he was also born 5 weeks late which will NEVER happen to us!) She claims "Nolans never have girls" while her daughter is sitting right at the table! It's sooo frustrating. Since this is a woman prone to exaggeration, her stories of DH as a baby sound like Paul Bunyan tales. As a newborn in a bassinet, he was so big and restless that he would scoot the thing all the way across the room. At 8 months, he was doing the iron cross in the corner of his crib. Before he was a year old, he was throwing himself out of his crib and "marauding about the house" in the middle of the night. It would be funny if I didn't hear the same stories Every. Single. Time. we see her.
At least I've made enough of a stand that she stopped referring to the baby as her grandson (which she started after our 11-week ultrasound, and we're Team Green). And I delight in telling her that the names she constantly volunteers as being on her unacceptable list (like Mary - WTH is wrong with Mary?) are growing on me the more I hear them.
It's the small things...
1. When we got married, DH and I had been vegetarian for 10 and 14 years, respectively. MiL bought a fur just for our wedding. Where she lives, it never gets cold enough for fur, but she spent the 1st 50 years of her life in our climate, and it's never that cold around here at that time of year.
2. DH and I are both 1/2 Slovak, and we have a Slovak last name. When we found out we were having a girl, we announced our short list of names, all of which work with a Slovak name. MiL insists that the baby's name must be Cheyenne (her 1st name). She wants to pick the baby's 1st & middle names to counteract the last name of her husband from 2 husbands ago. (this is the same last name that all 3 of her children and her otherb2 grandchildren also bear.) she chose Cheyenne b/c she is something like 1/8 Native American; she's not sure what tribe, but it's not Cheyenne, b/c her people have been in the Mid-Atlantic as far back as the Revolution.
You're lucky you get along with them!
I get the awkward sibling thing, but thankfully no one has tried to push them living with us - they just like to call and ask for money to pay rent and bills (and then they go out and buy a brand new 4-wheeler)...
DH has a brother who is 27 and married with 2 kids that lives about 5 miles from his parents - he doesn't work, but he and his wife take their laundry to his mother to do, and if they don't, it doesn't get done. My MIL also watches their kids for free, pays for all of their baby food, diapers, and wipes, and they go to thier house every night for dinner - let me just say that they are the type of people that can't pay thier electric bill, but want to breed that mare again, and continue to feed a flock of 30 sheep.
What happened about booting the bird out of the nest? lol annoying.
Good luck moving closer! We moved farther away from his parents for DH's job, (a whole whopping 2 hours), and of course, I'm the spawn of satan and have taken him away from his family. (We haven't talked to them in 2.5 years because they hate me because I don't take their crap).. All I can say is don't hold it back, it gets easier the more you say what's on your mind.. I'm glad your hubby is behind you!
Haha I would probly ask her what her crotch looks like after birthing a baby that big... not because I really care, but because I'd want to see the look of horror on her face! I bet that would shut her up!!
Hmm... sounds nice and pushy! I'd most likely tell her I'm naming her after her ex-husbands mother... wonder what she's say to that?
Hmm... sounds nice and pushy! I'd most likely tell her I'm naming her after her ex-husbands mother... wonder what she'd say to that?
Yea.. we moved 5.5yrs ago for me to go to college and she hates me for it. While I was in school I swear my DF wold get a call once every 3-4 months with her asking why I had to get so many useless degrees (I have 3 now and got them all in 4.5yrs even after I got pregnant and had to take care of a newborn, not bad in my eyes lol) and why couldn't I transfer to a college closer to home.
I am so glad he is behind me. I try to be civil because I do love him, but since we are going to be about 1.5hrs away I doubt that civil is going to work anymore.. especially if she thinks she can come in and try to manipulate me and my kids when I am having to deal with a newborn and a toddler by myself because my DF works OOT. Yea.. I'm likely to go off on a lot of people durng that time lol!
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My MIL is seriously awful I could just go on all day about this topic, but I'll just leave a few gems through the years.
1) When I picked out my wedding dress she made the comment quite a few times about how it be a tragedy if someone spilled red wine on me during my reception. Also how I'd probably never know who did it because people always crowd around the bride. Ummm ok...she did actually spill wine on my train before I pulled it up, but swears to this day (6 yrs later) it was an accident. I might believe that if she didn't mention it all the time before hand.
2) When we told her we were having a baby her response was "I knew it, you've been so unreasonable lately and your hair has looked awful."
3) So my bump has been out for a while now like very noticeable bump. My doctor actually says I'm measuring ahead a few weeks and thinks my due date may have been off because of never really being regular, but that's another story. So we went over for dinner one night and she says "I can't see it, but you were a big girl before so its going to probably take a while" I was a size 14! Needless to say a headache suddenly came on and we left early with my DH apologizing over and over on the way home.
See I really could go on all day, I need to stop. Thanks for this post I feel so much better!!
Holy crap! She sounds awful!!! I would hate to have her as my MIL!
MIL and I get along great, but she says/does some cooky things.
1. She lifted my shirt up in public to rub my belly for good luck. It happened so fast, I didnt have time to react, but it embarrassed the crap out of me. She also commented on my breasts in the middle of a restaurant with DH's uncle. She was like "Look at those things! They're huge!" Uhh, Im a B cup. As far as Im aware that's not big.
2. She also asked DH how he could "allow" me to have a water birth, and drown my baby. Ive had many discussions with her about this explaining that the baby wont take a breath underwater. She just doesnt get it.
3. And Im pretty much convinced she thinks Im giving birth to a toddler boy. She keeps saying "he" (even though we dont know the sex yet) is going to be into everything in the house if we dont start childproof everything. She also keeps buying toys (for toddlers) to keep at her house.
I actually had issues with something like this with my mom. she kept sending me articles on ADHD (as we both have it, and she's a Special Ed teacher)... thanks but i'd rather be a little distractible and unmedicated than a b*tch like my mom when she is. she didn't stop sending them untill i said i was getting off medication to get pregnant...
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A few months ago I was talking to MIL and her friend about baby stuff. The topic of crib bumpers came up, and I mentioned that we won't be using them, because they are not advised due to the danger they pose to babies (i.e. death). MIL and her friend (who are both whiny, weak, passive, helpless, worry-wart type of women), started freaking out about "but what if the baby hits its head on the crib?! What if the baby scoots around and bumps its head?!" I calmly responded "Babies and toddlers are going to bump their heads on all kinds of things, and they're usually just fine. But bumpers have been found to be a serious suffocation hazard, leading to death, or could allow an older baby to climb out of the crib, leading to a far worse injury than a head bump from a very short fall. What would you rather have? A baby with a bumped noggin, or a dead baby?" To which they both buried their heads in their hands, and MIL's friend cried out "I wouldn't want to have to make that decision!" to which MIL nodded.
Seriously? Is there any choice between a head bump and a dead baby?
It kind of disgusted me how pathetic and weak MIL and her friend allow themselves to be.
Mama's Clone - 07/18/12
oh I have some really great stories! the first and probably the best story is one about our wedding! i had a wedding room in hubbies house where i stored my wedding dress and all that good stuff. MIL and i had a big fight months before due to her refusing to address my by my name and only calling me Rachel (hubbies ex girl friends name). she came over to say sorry to my husband and "make things right" while she was at the house she said she needed to use the restroom so DH let her in the house but told her not to go in that room (completely made her want to go in), she ended up seeing my dress obviously. so later that week i got a text telling me what a slut I was because the dress was strapless and that "her son" would never find me attractive at the wedding, and if i wanted to make her son happy i should have never bought a dress with out her approval.
when she heard we were expecting the first words out of her mouth was, "i hope this baby is healthy and doesnt die from muscular Dystrophy." she is mentally ill in my opinion!
thanks for letting me Vent lol!
My MIL stated at our wedding that we weren't actually married bc we didn't get married in her church---and that's the least offensive thing she said that night. SIL scheduled her c-section for 3PM the day of our wedding so that her parents could announce the birth at our reception. It was the only time in my life I've ever heard my grandmother say something bad about another person! His parents had borrowed $4,000 from us, never paid us back, didn't contribute to our wedding yet expected us to invite everyone they've ever met, and then gave us a check as a wedding gift--which bounced. Then MIL accused me of "tampering" with the check so it would bounce. They have refused to speak to me since we got married bc I "stole" their son. They have never met DD or acknowledged that she even exists(they live 3 hours away, and every summer go camping 20 minutes from our house).
I'm thoroughly convinced that DH was switched at birth. There's no way he's really related to those people.