People Share Their Toxic In-Law Stories

My daughter-in-law decided, after years of manipulating my son, to walk out on him and their two kids. A few hours later she changes her mind and bombards him with all kinds of crap for a week.   

Then she gains access to the house when he’s out and changes the locks causing him and their two young kids to be homeless. 

She sucks!

mysonisatwat

My MIL has a very rocky relationship with one of her Daughters-in-law. There are a few of us. This one time this particular DIL (with a rocky relationship) had started "being nice" to our MIL by going to lunch with her and giving her advice on how to change annoying aspects of her personality. 

This lasted for a couple of months. Finally, the DIL had an absolute rage session and started screaming at the MIL saying how she could no longer be part of this ruse and that all her attempts at being friendly and trying to change the MIL's personality were pointless because the MIL was too stupid. 

To this day they don't get along and family gatherings are always super uncomfortable.

SiXleft7

Happened to a friend. Her brother married this girl who was his college friend. Very happy, to have a baby girl... Suddenly her father passed away so her mother went to stay with her son and DIL. 

  At first, she was ok. But after like a month, DIL started to lock the fridge (in India fridges come with internal locks) and pantry doors.  

 She started cutting down MIL's food. When my friend came to know about this, we went to her brother's place, packed her mom's stuff and brought her back to my friend's house. 

Scary lady that DIL. Brother didn't say shit to his wife

thatindianmum

So not a MIL, but one of my mum's friends.

Her son was on track to become an engineer and then he met this girl. She was a teacher and wanted to be a "full-time mummy" (which there was nothing wrong with).

He ended up dropping out of his degree as she told him, she got pregnant, he works at a dead-end job and she cut him off from all his family. She's very anti-vax/5G and is totally consumed with every conspiracy theory going on.

He no longer talks to his mum or any of the family. I grew up with him and he was always such a level-headed, confident guy and now his Facebook feed is full of anti-vax nonsense, baby pictures, or messages between him and his now-wife about how they're going to have the best family forever.

The mother of the guy respects his wishes, but whenever my mum mentions her, she always says that she feels like she lost her son.

TheLittleCas

I'm gonna speak for my aunt: my cousin is a party guy. He married a party girl. I met her on the day of my grandfather's funeral. 

She was dressed like Betty Boop; 

Too much makeup and a balloon-sized fake chest in a sheer, black tube dress stretched too far for the imagination. 

She was sitting at my grandparents' table as I walked bleary-eyed into the kitchen for a bowl of cereal; half-awake, I barely stopped myself from exclaiming "What the hell!?" 

After the funeral, we held a sort of Irish wake at my uncle's house, whereupon she tried to hook up with every male cousin, one by one asking them to do shots with her. I avoided her, so I was last. 

She got to me when I was having a beer in the driveway with two other cousins. One she'd already tried. She went to my more attractive cousin-in-law first. 

He shot her down with "The Mother. Of. My. Newborn. Child. Is. Inside." (I like him) I'm less assertive, so I tried the "if you ignore bullies, they'll get bored and leave you alone." She tried grinding up and down my front. I ignored her and hoped she would leave me alone. 

She moved around to try slithering up and down my back. I pretended she wasn't there. She slithered down my back one last time, and then

She bit my tush. 

I hopped across the driveway doing the Goofy yell. I honestly don't remember what happened after that. Somehow she left. I had a dental impression in a purple bruise on my ass cheek the next morning. Let me remind you, this was my grandfather's funeral.

I'm told that on the morning of their wedding, my aunt offered to pay for 100% of the wedding if he wanted to back out.

RealNewsyMcNewsface

My SIL instigated a fight with him over the phone, recorded him once she got him mad, and reported him to the police. She then told them exactly where to find him, as he was employed as a high school teacher at the time.

She stopped making payments on the house after she got him out and eventually, it was repossessed. She started cavorting around with our younger brother and dated him for like two years after they divorced. 

We think that they had been running around behind his back for at least three years beforehand, and personally, I'm pretty sure she groomed him from as young as 16.

And the real kicker: she was running around with our younger brother mostly at our mom's house.

Just a completely disgusting sociopathic monster. 

I've told my brother if he needs her tires slashed so she misses a court date, I'm in.

ProjectKurtz

I’m the DIL - I struggle with maternal relationships due to trauma from my mother at a young age until adulthood. 

I’m flakey with communication and sometimes I won’t talk to her for a while because I just forget but I also helped her realize she, her son, and a few of her grandchildren are probably on the spectrum too and they are all at various stages of diagnosis and awareness. 

It’s been healing for them, but I’m still the awkward DIL who has no clue how to connect with people. 

She accepts me and she’s more of a mum than I’ve ever had and I’m so thankful but I don’t know how to tell her!

Ninannunaki

I'm apparently the crazy DIL. 

One of our kids asked to change pronouns and live as a girl.

It wasn't a surprise to us, we've seen it coming for a long time and had gone so far as to let some family members know that it seemed like our child was on that path. 

Well my FIL told my husband that he thought I was forcing our child to do this because of, "how much I hate men," at which point we decided that our children would no longer be going to their house unsupervised because we weren't going to subject them to that attitude. 

And then covid hit which meant they couldn't really see the kids at all anyway. MIL threw a fit about how unfair all of this was to her. They've both decided I hate them. I have very little sympathy for the corner they've backed themselves into. 

When they apologize and commit to supporting their granddaughter then we can talk about reforming a relationship.

electrickumquat

I'm writing on behalf of my mother. 

My SIL is a lazy, obnoxious cow. She hasn't worked in 10 years, while my brother works 60 hrs a week minimum. 

Even though she gets an allowance for being a stay-at-home mum, that goes to cigarettes and until recently a shitload of pot. My brother went years without a birthday/Christmas/Father's Day card or gift from her. (Like... not even a card?!?!) 

So my mum used to come down for weeks at a time whenever my SIL was 'unwell' (read: withdrawing). 

Last year, my mum bought my brother a big, expensive, kick-ass birthday present. He's worth it, we always try to show him what he's worth. Well, Mrs SIL chucked a wobbly. "You need to stop buying him shit, or you n I will be having words OUT THE FRONT!!" Mum looked dead at her, "You wanna beat me up because I treat your husband better than you?!" 

Green_eyes_1986

My DIL was a cheating woman who strung my son along through a whole pregnancy full of lies. 

The baby came out a few too many shades off to pass as my son's. 

She even tried to take my son to court for child support, until her lawyer laid eyes on my son and told her to forget it.

She stole and pawned a lot of my son's belongings along the way too. She never got clean, never got help, and has done this whole thing to yet another man since.

dick-dick-goose

Mother here of a son who is married. 

I didn't approve of the marriage from the beginning even though my son is a grown man and of course, can do whatever he wants. My son married a woman much older than himself, much older than me. 

He is 43 now and she is 70. 

I knew he didn't marry her for love and only married her for what she had and this alone pissed me off. My son brought her to my house to meet me and I was pleasant to her, she was pleasant to me and to my mother who was very ill at the time. 

My husband's wife however really didn't talk much so it made for an awkward time.

They only spent the night and then left. My son continued living with me and his wife continued living in another city for quite a long time. Every time my son would go to stay with his wife he came home bitching about her. 

I never heard anything good, only bad so of course this made me dislike her even more.

Fast forward. They get into a big argument while my son was staying with his wife and he comes back home again, bitching about her. 

He told me she wanted to come to my house to see him and he told her not to come. She did anyway. 

As I stated, my very ill mother was here and my son's wife came here uninvited. She pulls up on the sidewalk for some weird reason and comes to the door. 

My son refused to go outside and he told me not to open the door so I didn't. 

His wife continues ringing the doorbell making the dogs go insane then she starts knocking and tries to look in through my windows. 

My son calls the police and the next thing I know, his wife is in handcuffs. 

My son went outside to talk to the officers and he had his wife trespassed. I had to sign it. It was ridiculous. They are still together I guess but I haven't talked to my son since before Christmas so I don't know. 

I'm glad I only have one son.

[deleted]

I'm a Mother of three sons. One of them is married and until very recently, I absolutely adored my daughter-in-law. She was the 'daughter' I didn't have. They gave me the most amazing grand-daughter. 

My daughter-in-law did, however, bring a level of drama to our lives, that we were not accustomed to, and that was hard to adjust to. Being a household of primarily males, there just was not much 'drama'. 

The DIL is 9 years older than my son, they started dating when my son was 19. 

I was very concerned about the age difference, but I always treated her respectfully and with kindness. They are amidst divorce now, and I'm not thrilled with her behavior over the past 6 months. 

My reason is that she knew she was dating a very young man, and they knew when they decided to marry and have a child, that the young man was still quite young. 

My DIL remains flummoxed that my son (who is 23 now) hasn't turned into a 30-year-old adult like she is.

Some red flags did go off for me as I observed her own relationship with her Mother, they were quite harsh with each other, but I tried not to let that affect my acceptance of her and she became an integral part of our family. 

Nonetheless, she has treated my son poorly, and I no longer 'like' her. It has nothing to do with 'competing' with her. It has to do with how she is now treating him, and us. 

This potential mother-in-law is open to any potential daughter-in-law or same-sex partner any of my boys become involved with. 

I want my sons to have loving relationships in their lives, and I would never do anything to hinder whoever they choose to share their lives with. 

Not all Mothers in Law are horrible people.

3boyz3Madison

My grandma hated my uncle's wife. 

I think it was pure jealousy. Grandma was a bit of a controlling type and hated being "replaced." 

She treated my uncle like a child. Sadly, he died of cancer while still pretty young. Grandma tried to re-write the obituary and managed to piss off my uncle's wife and children for a very long time.

puss_parkerswidow

I know why my mom doesn't like my sister-in-law.

She's unpleasant and mean. Every time we went to visit, she would make sure there was at least one fight. With my brother, at least one yelling, drag-out fight. So now every time we're trying to enjoy a visit, it's tense because we're waiting for the inevitable.

Watching my nephew watch his parents scream at each other is the worst part.

My brother went from doing ok, having friends and a sense of humor, and some shit, to now being overweight, unhappy, and having nothing to do on the weekends but drink and watch TV.  Which she then picks a fight about.

He's so wrapped up in it that even when I try to get him alone for a while, it takes him a while to unwind. Otherwise, he puts me down so he doesn't feel awful.

It sucks. I used to be best friends with my brother.

And Ma knows it too and hates her as much as she can. Mainly, it's a pity because it's clear she's a miserable person.

[deleted]

I love both my daughters-in-law in law...now. But at one time, my oldest was very serious and talking about marriage with a girl that NO ONE I knew liked except my son. 

She was really arrogant with no particularly good reason for being so. 

She didn't appear to like anyone else either. She was just very bad-natured. I was upset for my son but also relieved when she broke it off - he'd hit a bad patch and was out of work so she started seeing someone else.

implodemode

My mother hates my wife of 9 years and always has. 

My wife is half Hispanic, had a son from a previous marriage, had a father who was an ex-con, and feels that my wife was taking me from her. I'm the only child who lived near them. 

She would go as far as to invite me and my wife's daughter to do things and not my wife and stepson. 

My father wasn't much better either. Needless to say, I had to cut ties with my parents. I'm also much happier since then.

BATharp

My mom hated my wife and I don't know why. 

My wife is beautiful, smart, and kind and has never done anything to my mom. I mean frankly my wife is way too good for me. she's always been nice and a great mom to her grandkids. 

I guess my mom had this way of making these kinds of backhanded comments. I never noticed it and kind of dismissed my wife about it for the first 5 years of our marriage. 

One day she admitted that she didn't like my wife and that was it. haven't talked to my family in 2 years now. best decision I've ever made.

incrediblyhopefull

My mother hates my wife and she gives different reasons why, she's Mexican and probably marrying me to stay in the US (Not true she's a natural-born American) She's belligerent and argumentative (She stands up to people, including my mother). 

Now it's because she stays at home and I have to work (my wife has health issues and can't work). 

I always assumed the real reason is because my wife makes me happy and my mom actually hates the idea of me being happy.

[deleted]

My brother married a woman just like our mom. 

Overly emotional, manipulative, and judgemental. They visit with the kids, and my mom tries to parent their kids better than they do, makes suggestions, etc. 

My mom hates my brother's wife because she doesn't take any of those suggestions, and just brushes them off. It is exactly why my mom does when anyone tries to suggest anything to her.

My mom hates my brother's wife because they're the same person.

[deleted]

I don't like my other son's new wife because she's a lazy cow, to put it bluntly. 

They're both 26 now and she doesn't lift a finger to help do any housework, laundry, etc, she seems to expect him to do everything for her and it feels like he's a doormat to me in that respect even though he probably doesn't see it that way. 

You can go into their house and there'll be piles of dirty dishes just lying around unwashed and it's disgusting. Relationships should mean shared responsibility but she doesn't do her part. 

On top of that, it's like she treats our home like hers and just makes herself at home around our pool and hot tub, she uses them more than we do and we live here. 

The only good thing I have to say is she doesn't seem to be after him for money (we're a well-off family and he's making £100k+ at 26 and should be making £500k by 35-40 at this rate) and she builds up more savings than he does despite earning 4x more. 

Honestly, I just wish she would do more to help out, even just offering would be nice even if we don't need it but as long as they're happy I keep out of it.

milthrowaway12312321

My brother got married 6 months ago. When he proposed, he had known his wife for less than a year. They were each other's rebound, and they moved SO quickly. 

Now there's nothing wrong with that, to each their own, so we tried to get to know her and get along with her. 

She is a very judgemental person. 

My parents are divorced, so she would talk shit about one parent to the other, and vice versa, all while being fake nice. Also, she twists around a lot of things we've said to alienate my brother from us.

So once they started wedding planning, we ended up having a fallout, and I didn't speak to my brother for almost a year. 

To this day, we're civil, but we don't speak unless we necessarily have to. It makes me very sad, but I want him happy, so I keep them at a distance to avoid any conflict.

Also, my SIL makes zero effort to befriend my Mom. She calls my Stepmother her MIL and doesn't contact my Mom. That would make sense if my Mom was a crazy person, but she has tried and tried. So she finally gave up.

GodDamnYou_Bernice

My whole family hated my brother's (now ex) wife. 

She was crazy jealous and insecure. 

If he was a minute late from work, he was cheating. He's a football nut, but she actually accused him of only watching it because of the cheerleaders that they barely show. He had tons of comic books that he had collected since he was a kid, and she threw them all out one day while he was at work because it was the girls in them were not “dressed properly.”

She once got angry when they came over to my mom's house because I Love Lucy was on and Lucy and Ethel were in bathing suits. Like black and white, 1950s bathing suits. 

She refused to work because they had two young boys, but she would drop them off at her mom's and go shopping all day. And she completely controlled their banking account. 

Complete psycho.

lannett

I'm a 20-year-old male and I have been in a relationship with my GF for about 3 years now. I assumed my mother liked her as she hadn't ever said anything negative to me about her until recently.

I recently found out my brother is having a baby with his GF of 5+ years, I was moving house and my mother was helping me. 

My GF doesn't live with me so she arrived and started being quite outspoken and a total bitch because I was too busy to do stuff with her on her day off. 

When she stormed out of the house my mother stated; 

“Please don’t get her pregnant.

I thought you would have been done with her by now.”

TheXTC

My mom does not like my brother's new wife. 

My mom thinks she isolates my brother from the family. Ever since she came into the picture my brother does not attend family functions. 

We also have a very sick child in our family and the family takes turns hosting fundraisers for her medical care, since my brother started dating his now wife he refuses to even help with the events. 

So basically my new SIL keeps my brother from the family.

sexbob-om

There was this crazy girl I was dating who gaslit my whole family and tried to drive a massive wedge in.

My mom swears that crazy girl even maced her pillow when she stayed one week as a warning to back off.

Normally I hate it when my mom interferes with my personal life but the day I came home to find she’d turfed the crazy girl’s shit out on the lawn and had the locks changed was one of the most relieving days of my life.

I went from not being able to find my way out of a terrible dating mistake to being free to live my life again because my mom's intuition and lion instincts kicked in.

Was only 5 months but crazy chicks work hard and fast to secure their forts.

W2ttsy

My husband and I had a destination wedding in the Bahamas. 

My MIL is notoriously cheap and would only fly down for 2 nights, so she arrived the day before our wedding and went home the day after. 

On our wedding day, there was no official reception, but our group of about 10 people sat outside for the rest of the afternoon, drinking and generally having a good time. 

Fast forward to that night: husband and I finally get to our suite around 9 PM, and we're excited to enjoy our wedding night together, alone. 

Around 10 p.m., our room phone rang. It's my MIL, demanding that my brand-new husband come down to the lobby and watch a fire-eating performance or some shit with his mom, because "I'm leaving tomorrow, and I think it's very selfish of you not to spend time with me tonight." 

My husband explained that it was his wedding night, and he wanted to spend it with his wife, which prompted his mother to snap, 

"Oh, give me a break. It's not like tonight is extra special - We all know he is no virgin."

kittensandblow

For me, a MIL it's kind of a reverse heartbreak because I loved my DIL and we got on very well. 

She's from a semi-abusive background and at first had issues with drugs but dealt with that and became an excellent mother.

Now they are separated, and at her instigation, Son is devastated, and although I don't believe in taking sides it's hard to go past her decision to break up the family because she has to 'find herself'. I'm just not coping as we had been a very close extended family.

Not a matter of abuse, addiction, cheating, or even close.

auntynell

My sibling had the worst mother-in-law. 

This woman would not talk to our mother because she was divorced. Technically our mother had biblical grounds for doing this but when mom entered the room the MIL would leave. 

After a while it just got ridiculous and mom would just flit from room to room to mess with her at the kid's birthday parties. No one felt strongly enough to put their foot down and stop the game.

imissbklyn

My SIL is horrible. 

My mom not flipping her shit on her has always amazed me. My sister-in-law does everything in her power to be miserable about my mom. My mom sells her and my brother a truck instead of giving it. Horrible person.

My mom gave her boyfriend tamales on a real plate one Christmas instead of paper like the rest of us. 

My brother's family has colds my mom doesn't drop everything to get them popsicles, soup, etc. 

She has the audacity to wait a little bit to make them a care package. Monster.

She gets mad texts my mom and calls my mom a PIECE OF TRASH.

My brother tried to keep the peace but it just rarely happened. I will never understand why she dislikes my mom so much. My mom isn't perfect but my SIL is nuts.

My brother passed away last April and my SIL made it a little weird and hurt my mom but that's a whole different post.

SnooBooks702

My sister's ex’s entire family thinks my sister "Wants to turn her son into a girl" because she doesn't squash his outgoing personality and lets him make his own choices. 

How dare she let him have emotional outbursts instead of saying "You're fine, stop acting like a girl!" when he cries. Choices like dressing up and pretending to be a girl or boy or painting his nails. 

These don't seem like red flags to me, little boys surrounded by women tend to pick up things like makeup and stuff. 

And my sister just goes with the flow.

That family also refuses to acknowledge that my nephew has an uncle who was born female but transitioned and goes by a new name now. 

I don't know what my sister's ex-in-laws did to their kids but they really stunted their mental growth and reinforced gender roles to the point it's nearly abusive.

n0vapine

My DIL is one of those vegans who gives vegans as a whole a bad name and is staunchly anti-vax. 

She also refused to get prenatal care when pregnant with her son, wanting to raise him “all naturally”, only conceding to get an ultrasound.

maddiemoiselle

I'm the DIL.

In my MIL's POV, I am the evil snake that is ruining her family and its values. 

I'm manipulating her son into a man who rejects his family and won't let them into our lives. My husband suddenly has these boundaries and secrets. 

He doesn't want to be involved in anything with his family and refuses to invite them over to see our children. I must be changing him and turning him against them! It's all my fault!

The reality is... my MIL is a huge boundary stomper and doesn't have basic respect for us. We have very simple boundaries and she has fits about them because she can't do whatever she wants when she wants. 

For goodness sake, she literally cried about how she has to "make an appointment" to come over to our house instead of just popping by whenever she felt like it. 

She expects my husband to be her personal free laborer and her idea of family is her being heavily involved in every aspect of my and my husband's lives. Her increasing ridiculousness just keeps pushing my husband further away from her with each issue she blows up on.

So yeah, I'm a horrible DIL in my MIL's eyes, but I'm honestly neutral about it. 

I don't need or want her approval.

magicrowantree

This is about my DIL (my stepson's girlfriend and mother of my 2 grandbabies). I’m 19 years younger than my husband but 12 years older than my stepson. 

She thinks I want to sleep with my stepson ( never gave her any reason to think this, I do not want to). 

She keeps the babies from us, rarely we get to see them unless of course, she has a circumstance that is her only option for a babysitter. 

We’ve tried very hard to have a good relationship but she just hates me. I once even stopped by their house to visit, she was cordial but my stepson got an earful when he got home from work. 

Just sad all around- she doesn’t want us in their lives.

jaylynn110117

My ex-MIL was over the top. 

She lived 5 minutes from the x, and she came to his house 5 days a week to clean. She was always telling me to clean, how to clean it, and how I could clean stuff when the product used for it wasn't available. 

All her conversations were about cleaning. She would come to the house on my free days at 9 AM when I was lying in bed and she would yell at me to just stay there. 

She would tell me what and how she was cleaning everything, screaming advice from the other rooms (while I was still trying to sleep in my birthday suit)

I'm not a messy person, btw! I cleaned my house three times a week, from the time I left my home (at 14 years old). The ex was 27 (and I was 24) when he got his apartment.

I just couldn't live with it anymore. My ex just wouldn't stand up to MIL. 

When we broke up, she texted me and started asking why I broke up with him. I told her in a kind manner that I thought the ex had a lot of growing up and learning to do. And that it would be helpful if she would let him do this on his own! I hope she listened.

jayda92

I had a monster in law (now ex) 

But from her perspective, I'm the evil dil (and she's not wrong from her perspective).

My ex-husband told her half of the story. The first was a month into dating, 'my girlfriend got mad and broke up with me because I have a female friend. She says if I want her back, I can never see friends'

What actually happened is he was going out at 4 am with said friend, forgetting about me completely or plans we had in favor of the friend and I chose to end things. He then begged for me back and I said 'You lack boundaries and I don't want to feel as I have been so I don't think this will work.' he then told me he'd cut her out I'm more important. 

I said I'm OK if he doesn't, there just needs to be boundaries but he cut her out.

Anytime we had a reasonable disagreement he'd go to her with his half-truths and she'd eat them up. 

So to her, I was controlling, evil, manipulative, toxic, etc.

He told me she was a raging narcissistic alcoholic. She treated me like garbage because of her perspective. I iced her out because of mine.

Now I know that my ex actually gets gitty starting drama and watching people react based on his stories. I got tired of the drama of being with him and left 3 years ago. 

I grey rock like a champ so the only person who reacts anymore, is him when he realizes he can't control me anymore.

Bajingosisters

I was a toxic DIL. At least for the first 6 years. We had a strained relationship that would go back and forth between hate, tolerance and actually liking each other. To be fair, my husband was the youngest and we became teen parents. 

She blamed me for stealing her son, I blamed her for not letting us live our lives. 

In 2011 things started to change and we started talking and getting to know each other. 

Two years ago we lost her and I am honored to have been one of the ones chosen to be by her side during that time.

[deleted]

On behalf of my grandma, my uncle, and his wife just steal stuff.

My grandparents gave my uncle and his wife everything. They lived on the farm that my grandpa grew up on. My grandparents moved into the ranch next door that my great-grandparents built, and my “aunt” and uncle moved into the farmhouse. 

My grandparents owned it all up until my grandpa died and my uncle ~convinced~ manipulated my grieving grandma to sign it away to him.

He and my aunt auctioned off the farm equipment before my grandpa’s body was even cold, and now they lock up all the sheds and garages.

 Who knows what the hell they’re hiding? My grandma even needs to ask to get into her own property. 

Sometimes when I visit my grandma, I hear the outside basement door creak open and I know it’s my aunt sneaking downstairs to look for something she wants. My grandma can’t hear that door from the living room so she knows she can come and go without being seen or heard.

It’s gotten to the point that my mom and the rest of my aunts bought my grandma a fridge and freezer with a lock on it because ~her~ “our” food started to go missing.

I hate them. And I don’t care that I’m likely not getting any money when my grandma dies - I care that they steal from her like she’s already dead.

toothpastenachos

I have 3 daughters so I have 3 sons-in-law. 

I have a pretty funny story about my middle daughter’s husband. Now I don't like him (he's 12 years older than my daughter, he's an alcoholic, got DUIs in multiple states) my husband hired him to work for our small construction company. 

He would show up reeking of either booze or pot, he would be told to meet my husband to drive to a job. He would show up 2 or 3 hours late to leave for a job. The best carpenter we have ever had work for us.

During this time, we had purchased a 1922 house that needed a total remodel (all 3 floors of 2600 square feet) I had surgery on my right foot/leg was in a cast, and couldn't drive (had to have either my husband, sister or 1 of my 3 daughter's drive me around) my sister had driven me over to the new house and son-in-law was there. But my husband wasn't. 

I accidentally left my cell phone at the new house, sister took me home. (Now my husband and I have each other listed under our pet names for each other in our cellphones. 

I had hubby listed as Mr. Snowflake, my cell rings & SIL goes to answer it & sees Mr. Snowflake & doesn't answer it. He goes home & tells my daughter that he thinks that I am having an affair with my hubby. 

My daughter asked him if he had met me. That no, I am not having an affair. 

The next day hubby and I go back over to the new house and I see my cellphone. Hubby and I are talking & I call him Mr. Snowflake in front of the SIL & he starts laughing, and tells us this story. I am upset by this. 

The evil ex-husband is the 1 who kept having affairs with me, this lady doesn't play around.

AdAdventurous8225

My aunt's DIL is the worst. 

She's kept my cousin on a tight leash after marriage. Banned my aunt from communicating with him on any social media account. 

It's so bad whenever my cousin happens to see my aunt he acts like he doesn't know her. 

All this is due to the DIL. Just hurts to see my aunt not see her own grandkids.

Vividbee21

I was a toxic DIL. 

My MIL was a widow and my husband was an only child. I always felt she was competing with me. But I didn’t realize my children and husband were her world. What I found annoying was just her way of showing love. 

One day she laid down for a nap and never woke up. My family was devastated and I had to support everyone. 

I finally realized how much my MIL loved my children and my husband. How wrong I had been! 

Now I really miss her the old bat.

OldGrayMare59

My boyfriend's SIL was already a bit crazy before the wedding 2 years ago but ramped up after. 

His brother and SIL fight constantly! She argued that he wasn't home enough, she was convinced he was cheating and/or going out for drinks after work. 

Fight all day, all night... Would call his parents in the middle of the night screaming about whatever imagined slight he had committed to try to turn them against him! Barged into their (in-laws) house randomly, screaming/demanding to see him because "I know you're hiding him!" The brother was at work, he worked long hours to support her and their baby because she didn't work.

Then the pandemic hit and he was laid off, so he's home all the time and they still fight constantly. Now it's just that he's home too often! No winning in that marriage.

CatsOverFlowers

I have an aunt who passed away recently that I always thought had 3 sons. Turns out she has a fourth who I never met, knew, or ever heard mentioned. As far as we know he was a normal guy, who studied, had a decent job, got married, and had 2 kids. 

All of a sudden he phones his mother and says he wants nothing to do with her and that she has ruined him as a person, etc. He cuts himself off from the entire family so no contact at all.

The hard part however was there was absolutely no reason why all this happened. 

The parents, siblings, friends, and extended family could not figure out what happened or why he did this. 

He had another child later on that we only knew about due to someone spotting him and his family at a hardware store. His mother died during covid and the eldest brother thinks he saw him standing at the back (masks made it difficult).

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine told me this exact story and I was like wait I know these people and he said that this guy's wife (the DIL) was into black magic and superstition which she used to push him into the way that he is.

Reeeaz

I'm the DIL and I do not care for my MIL. She treats my husband with such horror, she taunts him and constantly belittles him to the point where one time she said the most horrid words to him she made him cry.

Also, idk if she thinks he doesn't tell me, but when I'm around she is the perfect person, sweet and smiling. 

I don't trust her for a second, and if she can be this hateful to her own son what about my children? 

You can't hate someone and love their kids or wife.

lebonisang

When I first started going out with my partner (together 9 years now), my MIL made it obvious that she didn't like me.

My partner is her oldest child and became disabled when she was about 15. Due to this, she had a pretty close relationship with her mum and I think her mum struggled with having to share her or something.

After we had been going out for about 4 months her mum sat her down and told her she didn't have to be with someone like me just because she was disabled. 

The first 2 years we were together I wasn't invited by her mum when she took the whole family out for dinner for my partner's birthday. 

I only stayed around their house twice before my partner got pregnant and the first time I stayed around (in a separate room from my partner), she took my partner to one side the next day and said I needed to be gone before 4 pm so they could all have a family dinner.

We have a fantastic relationship now, I love her to bits but she sure did make it hard the first few years.

Questioningstuff92

Tbh my MIL sucks. 

She told me she didn’t like me from day one because of how I was raised. Even though I’m completely different from anyone in my family. I’ll go to bat to defend myself any time that I have to. 

Let’s just add that to the list of things she doesn’t like about me shall we? 

I needed to say it to someone. Otherwise, I’ll explode.

Kenz_19