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Crazies

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It sounds like most of us has a crazy or two in our lives, so I thought it might be fun to see who is the crazy in most of our lives and swap stories.

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  • namara5532namara5532 member

    My FIL acts like how you'd imagine a MIL to act.  He guilt trips everyone into doing what he wants.  He's the epitame of expecting love in return for giving things; he gets angry if he gives you something and you don't respond the way he expects.  For example, he offered DS a toy which he didn't take because he was playing with something else.  FIL got offended and said that we had taught our son to not like him.  Uh, no.  He's a baby with a limited attention span and no sense of courtesy.  He also threw a fit over wedding invitations when his wife's children didn't get paper invites (even though they were still welcome to come) and said he wasn't coming at all.  He eventually came around, but it was a stupid reason to threaten not coming to his son's wedding over a piece of paper.  But that's just the tip of the iceburg of all the crazy things he's done.  He overreacts and uses it as a weapon to get his way.  DH could rant about him all day because FIL has been this way his entire life.

    He doesn't come visit DS often, and we're ok with that.  DH especially feels like FIL isn't the kind of influence we want around our child, and I doubt we'll ever leave DS at FIL's house alone.  We'll let DS make an unbiased opinion about what he thinks about his grandpa, but we will make sure he knows that it's ok to not let FIL guilt him into doing anything he doesn't want to do.

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    All of them minus myself, DH and my father...
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  • jkzinckjkzinck member
    Boy I guess I have been lucky.  I have a sister that is a little high maintance but other than that....... Now people I work with that is a different story
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  • jnickers98jnickers98 member
    I voted for my FIL, he's not crazy but very needy.  I try to give him leniency because he is a widow.  My problem is that I don't think he tries to move on (it's been 5+ years).  I think he likes to be miserable because everyone dotes on him.  For example, he still hasn't cleaned out the closets after 5 years (I also blame my DH for enabling him) and then gets sad when he sees her stuff.  It's a difficult situation to say the least.
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  • bigbearbigbear

    Oh boy....

    Well the craziest would have to be both my SILs. And then my brother for putting up with one of them LOL

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  • mrs.larrymrs.larry member

    SS - me? Surprise

    just kidding. I'm actually one of those freaks whose whole family is pretty damn cool. like, to the point that we actually still take huge family vacations with 20 people every two years. I count my lucky stars every day!!

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  • js13524js13524
    I voted for the whole IL family. They're really into old wives tales and superstitous remedies. When DD refused to take a pacifier, my MIL told us to put a little hole in it and fill it with honey!! No way!! H's aunt told me to make eye drops more effective put them in using the hand on the opposite side of the eye your putting them in, then reach over your head and put them in the outside corner of the eye (this is not a joke)! I could go on and on. On top of that most of my ILs live out of the country (with the exception of Aunt and some cousins) so I hear all this second hand from H! Which makes him seem just as crazy! Haha! But I will say that the food makes it all worth it! H's Aunt makes the best tamales and barbacoa I've ever had. And he also has a cousin that makes this cake that is to die for!
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  • twigmommytwigmommy
    My ILs and DH enabling them. FIL smokes in thier house. It's always been a little smoky in there, but its worse now that he's retired and home all day. We've told ILs that we have to be careful how often we take DD over there because of the smoke. Yet MIL guilt trips us. And they like to baby sit so they can spend time with DD. Yet once they watched her a few times at our place they wanted us to take her over there. And of course DH considers his parents convenience over DDs health.

    Back in august we were at two weddings and they couldn't even bring her back home when it got close to bedtime. DD wasn't sleeping for them there, so by the time we got her home nursed and in bed it was almost midnight. They bough a PnP but had it right next to the tv which was on DH and his fam are tv addicts.

    Our neighbor has offered to watch DD, but hubs gets all wishy washy when I mention it. Our neighbor is great with DD. She's the one that bough puffs for DD's Halloween treat and reccomended the daycare we love her kids went there.

    Oh and a small thing, MIL only wanted dd to play with one toy at a time when we were visiting last. I like to have a few toys out and let DD choose which ones she wants to play with. And if she puts a tumbler from her fun park into her shapes cookie jar that's fine with me. I call it creative exploritive play.
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  • raefreraefre member

    MIL probably drives me the nuttiest though DH's sisters can be a close second.  MIL was the one, after all, who said that DS should have been a girl (all while holding him).  MIL also thinks she's going to get cancer every other month and blames certain things on her PTSD and traumatic brain injury.  SIL3 just yells and screams if anyone offers a differing opinion until everyone just shuts down and shuts up. 

    I'm sure my family is nuts, but I'm used to their nuttiness.  

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