"Tales of Turmoil and Triumph" People Share Their Horrible Mother-In-Law Stories

Behind every great love story, there's often an interesting cast of characters. And when it comes to in-laws, well, let's just say they can add a whole new dimension to the adventure. From quirky habits to outrageous antics, these stories run the gamut.

So, let's dive into the realm of crazy and sometimes, downright horrible mother-in-law tales. Get ready for a rollercoaster of emotions, because these narratives are bound to surprise, amuse, and perhaps even tug at your heartstrings.

1. A Wedding Tale of Mother-in-law Drama

My husband and I had a destination wedding in the Bahamas. My mother-in-law 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 mother-in-law, demanding that my brand-new husband come down to the lobby and watch a fire-eating performance or some trash 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 kittensandblow is no virgin." 

I have lots more, but that one is my favorite because it really set the tone for things to come

Kittensandblow

My brother-in-law had a nice habit of stealing his mother's cars. He would get high, run off with her car, go downtown to buy drugs and get arrested.

 On one occasion, he got the car impounded. So my mother-in-law made plans to drive her other car to my house one morning, where I would take her to the city impound lot to pick up her car. 

She comes outside in the morning to find that car gone, along with her son. So I drove the hour out to the sticks, picked her up, and we headed back into the city. 

We spent time at the impound lot, filling out forms, standing in line, and paying fines. We got the car back. As we're in the parking lot, getting ready to leave, I say, "You know... As long as we're here..." We go back inside and ask. Sure enough, the other car is there too. He had taken it the night before and managed to get arrested again.

Gamacrit

Back when my wife and I were dating, her parents were in the beginning of a messy divorce. Her mother was a woman who made herself the constant victim - everything was always "against her" and none of us treated her right were her steady mantras. Her dad was sleeping around and was abusive.

I entered the picture in the most respectful way - I asked her father's permission before I even asked her out. I cleared plans with him and treated him with as much respect as possible. I spent time with her sisters - took them to ball games, etcetera. I even helped him fix his car more than once.

One night, we were on a date, and she received a call from her mother who had decided she was going to kill herself over some perceived slight from one of the kids. I knew that it was BS - she loved this kind of attention, but my wife was the one who essentially had to "talk her off the ledge." 

The half of the conversation I could hear was appalling, but I did what I could and remained supportive of my future wife. I brought her home 20 minutes before curfew (she was 17, I was 19). We sat in the car in full view while she continued to talk to her mother, wanting to keep her dad out of it.

 He came out, pulled her from the car, and demanded an explanation. She eventually told him about the call, and he hit her across the face. I immediately put her in my car and called the cops. A mutual friend came and picked her up and I stayed, the imminent threat in the air.

 I refrained from attacking him, knowing that as an adult it could go badly for me legally, and I knew the girls would need me for support and such over the coming days. The next day I called CPS. They went over and interviewed Dad only - and felt that nothing needed to be done.

To this day, they still see me and my wife as the scapegoat - the reason their marriage fell apart. They have yet to meet their grandchildren.

Rhythmless

My mother-in-law is an alcoholic. Easily drinks 18 beers in the course of a night. Every time she and her husband come to town they stay here (because we have the most room). 

I've asked her multiple times not to drink too heavily while staying out here due to the fact that she would stay up until 8 a.m. drinking and being loud, constantly trying to wake up my 8-month-old daughter (her granddaughter) at all hours of the night because she 'wants to give her a hug'. 

No freaking way is anyone that is drunk going near my daughter.  When she's drunk she thinks she is everyone's psychiatrist.

The last time she came out to visit, she first got drunk and then began to yell at me, calling me a 'spoiled brat who ruined her son's (my SO) life'. Everyone that was there then proceeded to yell at her. Including my SO. 

After that little spat, it was complete silence until she burst out crying and screaming everyone shut the freak up. I want to talk to my son! I need to talk to my son! I want to talk to my son!  Don't you all understand!?' and screamed that for a good half an hour. 

Everyone just looked at each other. I got sick and tired of this and yelled back 'We freaking get it but what you don't get is that no one is freaking talking to you alcoholic'.

I was the bad guy for the next few weeks.

Fearlesseyes

My son had febrile seizures, surprisingly common in children under 4. His was a bit more complicated, it was a very serious medical condition, something we (my husband and I) took very seriously. They are caused by a body temperature going from normal to high too quickly. So, even if you catch a fever in time - administering a fever reducer isn't going to prevent the seizure. It simply won't have time.

It was his first birthday party, at her house. She keeps it a lot warmer than we are used to. She also dressed him in a turtleneck and a sweater vest, so of course, his little cheeks were flushed. She asked me if I was worried that he might have a fever, I felt him and said that maybe he should take off the sweater. 

She got out the thermometer and said "Well, no seizures on my watch". She said it like there was something I could have done to prevent the others. My son almost died, twice. I had never been so enraged towards another person so quickly as I felt in that moment. I sucked it up, but, ugh.

Also, she cut my daughter's hair without my permission. I told her this was unacceptable and she did it again a few months later. I firmly told her that if she did it again she would not have the children unsupervised again. She did it again. She didn't get the kids for over 3 three years.

That was my line. Unfortunately, I have no control over where their dad takes them on his days, but I have trained all of them to straight-up tell her not to cut their hair.

Funny-chubby-awesome

My wife and I are from Canada, but I moved south for work, and my wife followed me. When we got engaged my wife's parents didn't speak to her for 6 months. It took 3 years before every conversation quit being a fight about living too far away. 

On our wedding day, my mother-in-law gave a 15-minute speech on how awesome Canada was. It was fully loaded with the undertone of how horrible the US was, especially since my mother's family is from Michigan.

We had to get married in the US due to visa rules, and when my wife asked her sister to be her Maid of Honor she said she wasn't coming to the wedding, over Facebook. That took 3 months to solve. She came in the end but was not at the wedding party.

The strangest thing about the whole situation is in general they're fairly nice people. So it was always a surprise when a conversation went sideways and became about how horrible we were for not living near them. 

They're much better about it now but I still walk on eggshells constantly when I'm around them.

Canadaiscold

On our wedding day, my husband's freaking messy sister decided to try to ruin our wedding.

Let me backtrack a tiny bit. She's single and has a daughter and son. We invited her and her kids to the wedding, but not a date as it was just a tiny beach wedding for the family.

 She decided she was bringing a date anyway, and bought a plane ticket for a guy she used to date who lived across the freaking country (he's in Washington, US in southern Mississippi) to bring to the wedding.

 While we were on our honeymoon, she decided she was going to use the house we were renting as her personal freaking pad to save her a few hundred bucks on a hotel. When my husband found out about her plan, he said no bitch. So then she proceeds to harass us.

The morning of the wedding, we started getting text messages from her saying she was coming to the wedding whether we liked it or not. Then the threat started - she was planning to wreck the wedding service and reception. 

Then she started with the name-calling. She called me a beached whale in a white dress. Anything and everything she could think of - telling my husband that I was just like his ex-wife and we'd be divorced within the year, that he was going to hate me, blah blah.

We saw her last year at my husband's nephew's wedding. She cried asking us to forgive her. I didn’t even look at her twice.

Assholes613

My Mother-in-law asked my wife how much my mother makes. This not being a usual topic of conversation in my family was not known to my wife so she made up an arbitrary number of 100K and told this to my Mother-in-law. 

Well, about a month later, my Mother-in-law came back to my wife and said "There is no way that your mother-in-law can make that much money". Apparently, she called my mother's place of employment and asked if anyone made more than 100K. She claimed that she was told by my mom's work that no one makes that much money and it is supposedly impossible for her to make that much. 

My mother works at a university as an experienced web developer so of course there are people there who make more than 100K and there is no way someone relayed this information. 

After this conversation was about finished she finished by saying that she was glad that my mother didn't make that much because she claimed she "wanted to be the rich grandma" and it was her job to spoil the kids. That gets kind of hard when she has no money and doesn't even work!

Skimice1

My wife and I  aren’t married yet but have been together for 8 years. One year, for reasons I’m yet to ascertain, she ignored me entirely. 

Their family does a fundraiser I participate in every year and his Mom invited the woman he was seeing before me (this is at least 4 years after we began dating- and when we began that woman relentlessly tried to contact/reconnect with my boyfriend) and hung out with her the whole day while ignoring me. 

She acted straight up like I didn’t exist for Christmas that same year. Never got an apology or explanation on why other than when she was arguing with my boyfriend once and said some trash about not liking how I let him treat her. He made sure to make it clear that’s not how our relationship works and that she has to give respect to get it.

-That_One_Girl-

There are so many stories I have about my ex-mother-in-law. I could even write a book.  I don't even know if putting just one story up will even do justice to the crazy narcissist that is my ex-mother-in-law.

There was a time she outrightly asked my now ex if he was sure our second kid was his. Worse yet he actually questioned me about it. Thanks all...believe your trash-head mommy who's been trying to ruin our marriage since day one over me without evidence. 

In hindsight, I should have left him then but I didn't. All the short stories I have about her will come off as wall-eating crackers on my end, so that's the bad short one I have... all others would be an experience. 

Wombatbeans

My in-laws invited us to go on vacation to visit my husband's extended family on the other side of the country.

We politely declined, telling them that we were planning to visit some really good friends for our vacation that year. My mother-in-law asked if we'd made firm travel plans yet, we said no and that we were waiting for our tax return to buy the plane tickets. Her response was, 

"Then there's no reason you can't go with us because we bought your tickets to fly out with us!" 

She legitimately thought it would be okay for us to change our vacation plans just because they'd purchased our tickets without asking us first.

Servantofshemhazai

My mother-in-law is a crazy church lady. Anything and everything can be fixed by going to church more. 

Only the right kind of Baptist church, mind you. My wife has some pretty bad health issues and my mother-in-law thinks she should stop taking her medication and, you guessed it, go to church more. 

She once tried to steal my wife's meds to "prove" they were just poisons and the wife would be better off without them. My mother-in-law is not allowed in our house. 

Liar_tuck

My potential future mother-in-law is delusional, weak-minded, and without a doubt has Stockholm syndrome. She blames everything on the cruelty of the world or spirits if anything angers her. 

Fast forward, recently I walked to my boyfriend's house and it was cold and he usually uses my cardigan because it feels nice to him and everything was fine until we went back to his place together then she stole it, my property. 

She cut off contact with me because I wanted my stuff back and she's basically angry at me because she knows she's been caught as a thief.

 I don't know if she'll ever give it back or any other pieces of clothing she's taken from me in the past several months but I know it will only get worse if I don't help my boyfriend find a place to stay, he even said he's tired of her and everything she keeps dragging us into. She's obviously jealous of our relationship and angry at the world for her own, which is already detrimental.

United_Home8991

I moved across the country to be with my long-distance boyfriend. He moved out of his parent's place and moved in with me. The problem is, that they are highly religious and extremely against him moving in with me.

 For clarification, he is over 25 years old. So, his parents proceeded to harass him at his work several days a week, and then eventually his mom threatened to kill us both, then herself. 

Long story short, we have an order of protection against them and we've been living together for a year now!

Reptisessieve

I Was at the grocery store with my ex and his mom. In the checkout line, she looks at my ex and says, "Honey, do mommy a favor and go back to the pharmacy aisle and get mommy some condoms."

 We were on the way to her new boyfriend's house. He says, "Ugh. Alright." And starts for the aisle.

 He's about 6 check-out lanes away when she yells his name and he turns around. She holds her hands about 18" apart and yells, "The big ones." This was a 35-year-old woman. 

Drgirlfriend69

My ex-mother-in-law did not like some of the things that were on our wedding registry (after she and my freaking mother had already made us change a bunch of trash on it they didn't like. Since she had changed some of it my mom requested changes too, nothing on there was stuff I liked by the end) she bought similar items for her son's birthday just a couple of months before the wedding.

She didn't like the couch pillows so she bought different ones. She hated the throw rug, so bought a different one too (that was too big for the space we had). She told me that if anyone had seen the ones we had selected in the house, everyone would think her son was gay because they weren't masculine enough.

They had keys, so sometimes I would buy stuff only to see it replaced by things they liked more. My husband said they had always done that and had always bought things that were like what he asked for but cheaper or a different brand that they liked more. It was completely maddening and overstepped all kinds of boundaries I wanted to have in my home. 

proffiethrowaway

My mother-in-law is a hoarder. Not just items and food and everything unnecessary, but animals/pets. She has 30 cats, a dog, turtles... and feeds the neighborhood raccoons and possums. She is ultimately a crazy cat lady and will give her cats "better" care than the other animals, like making sure they get their annual shots and feeding them fancy feasts every day, but that is the extent of it.

The other animals are given cat food. Her cats don't get attention or other care and the areas they live in are pretty gross and smell like so much cat trash and piss. She leaves all the cat food out and they have millions of flies. 

My mother-in-law sleeps in that stench too and I think it had honestly burned whatever brain cells or sanity she was capable of. When it comes to the end-of-life phase, the animals look pitiful and are kept alive because she doesn't believe in euthanization. 

A few of them have been eaten alive by maggots. She doesn't believe in putting them down and said she will just keep them "comfortable" which is some pets and a dirty blanket. It is rough to watch and I can't.. especially with the eaten alive by maggots part. 

I have complained to her before but she believes in what she believes in. There are a million other things I don't like or agree with her on, I can write a book.

Riddix

This story isn't about me but about my Mom's mother-in-law (my paternal grandmother) and my Mom who have always had a horrible relationship. I am the oldest child, and my sister was born 5 years later.

My mom's mother-in-law told everyone when I was born that I should have been a boy, and it was my mom's fault for having a girl. Also that I was no grandchild of hers. She eventually "came around" after 6 months. 

She declared this in the town's department store to anyone who would listen and my mom had to endure having a woman come up to her a week later and say "Aren't you so-and-so's daughter-in-law? And this must be little TheEthalea! Oh, she was just telling us what a shame it was that she isn't a boy, but next time you'll get it right!"

She also said she would not treat my sister as her grandchild if she wasn't a boy. (they were really obsessed with having a boy grandbaby for some reason, haha too bad we're both girls) She then spread rumors around town that my mom cheated on my dad and my sister was not my dad's child (because she wanted a boy grandkid)

My mom's mother-in-law treated me better during our entire childhood and ignored my mom and sister. (giving me special gifts and trips while ignoring my sister. My sister actually asked our Mom "Why doesn't Grandma and Grandpa like me? They liked the thalea," when she was 5 years old.). She even told my dad that he'd never be happy with my mom because she was "too good for him" and that he should know his place and marry someone else. (they just celebrated 40 years of marriage on Feb 1st.)

When we lived in the same town as them she would come over to the house when my dad was at work and harass my mom. She would tell her the house was dirty, her cooking was horrible, they were raising me wrong, etc.

As if all this wasn’t bad enough, one incident put her over the top. Okay...we've lived a state away from them for 26 years. They have never visited us. Not once, we always drive the 400 miles to see them. 

So, for my sister's wedding, they were making noises about how they probably wouldn't be able to make it. My dad drove hours to get them and bring them out because they were too lazy to come to their granddaughter's wedding. 

Then they gave my sister our great grandmother's china that has been sitting in a cabinet for 40 years and mentioned to her that after they passed she was supposed to then give the china to me since it was in great grandma's will. 

They also gave me a blanket on my sister's wedding day that our great grandma had crocheted, because they "couldn't give my sister a present and not give one to me as well, That would be unfair". It was literally her day and they were still trying to play favorites

They wonder why we don't call them and update them on our lives but anything I tell them becomes twisted around and used as ammo against my mother and sister. They say my mom has "poisoned me against them." Nope, y'all did that by yourselves. 

Meanwhile, my Mom has always tried to make up for my grandparent's obvious favoritism by making my sister her favorite. This leaves me very alone because my grandparents see me as a way to get ammo against my mom and sister and my mom and sister see me as the enemy camp because I didn't realize what was going on until I was 16.

 It's overall pretty messed up.

Theethalea

I found out that my mother-in-law was a pathological liar. She moved around fairly often, always moving into places with roommates. But whenever things were going south quickly, she would always say that it had to do with the roommates entirely (like they have emotional outbursts frequently, or are unreasonable about the house rules, abusive, or randomly announce that they're all moving without giving her notice or reason why.) 

Her image is that of a sweet, little old lady who touts that "eating dessert first" should be a common policy for life. We then decided to share a place with her in order to help her save money on bills (and us too, though we didn't really need the help of a roommate). Turns out, she lied about probably everything and she's the kind of selfish person that twists house rules for her benefit.   

She'll be adamant about other people *not* eating her food but will start cleaning out the cabinets at night, finish things off that don't belong to her, and wouldn't replace them either. She doesn't want people to touch her belongings, but will willingly ruin something that belongs to someone else without a second thought. Then has the audacity to tell you that it's your fault that she did that.   

We have a rule that all housemates should be notified before a guest comes over (just a heads up before a random unexpected person shows up at the door, that's all), so she decides to start having her guests arrive in the dead of night, to hang out for hours, to go in and out of the house and garage, carrying on. Just to deny all of it the next day, and has the audacity to get mad at us when we actually have a surprise guest visit (because *she* wasn't given notice).

Then she starts lying about these things. Straight up denies having anything to do with disappearing things, or denies having anything to do with the general disarray of the house (even though she, you know, lives here). 

She denies having family members visit in the middle of the night. On top of that, she thinks it's okay to disrespect me in our house, trying to convince my husband that I have bad character because I don't let people walk all over me like that, *and* expects me to forgive it all because she's a cute lil granny.

I'm just lucky I caught her behavior early on before it went on long enough to cause serious damage to my relationship. Now I know to keep her at arm's length and to assume that anything she says is false. 

I hate treating people like that, but I have major trust issues. I can't handle having a constant liar involved in my business.

Lady Revontulet

My ex-mother-in-law hates me. I was white and her son was black. But she is also white. 

She said I was polluting his mind, body, and spirit. When we called to say we were engaged, she immediately started talking about how I must be pregnant because otherwise, her son wouldn't be so convinced to marry such a vile woman. 

She'd never met me. Once we got her convinced I wasn't pregnant, she said she wouldn't be at the wedding because her husband didn't support her having a black son. 

She then called everyone on her side of the family and started telling lies about me to convince them not to come to the wedding. There's just so much more I could say but I'll leave it here. 

Anoliveanarrow

My mother-in-law and I have a much better relationship now, but in the past, she wronged me greatly. 

There was a time when my now husband and I were both in graduate/med school and in our mid-20s and had been dating for a couple of years and we got engaged. She told us that they didn't know why my husband and I were "rushing into marriage".

All that was despite the fact that I had met the majority of his family and extended family, I was/am very close to his half-sister. I had spent holidays with them and even spent the night at her home. She had even met my entire family.

Things were so tense between us that my mother-in-law refused to come to the engagement party my mom threw or the bridal shower my maid of honor threw. When my mom called her to share her joy that our families would be joined and ask if she had a guest list for the engagement party so my mom could send invitations, she screamed at my mom and very rudely told her, 

 "Our children aren't getting married."

Eventually, things moved along. My mom wore a traditional Filipino dress to our wedding, which is made of piña cloth and cream colored. I was fine with this. She on the other hand told everyone she didn't know why my mom wore white. Or why I did for that matter. 

She never once complimented me on our wedding day. All she did was take time to criticize me because my makeup was smeared because I had cried. She didn't smile in any of the wedding photos. Not a single one.

Four years ago we moved from our home state, and 3.5 years ago we went home to visit and my husband thought he left his phone charger at our home (it was at a friend's house). My maid of honor pulled me aside and sternly told me, 

"You need to take care of these things. When I was your age, I was packing for myself, my husband, and my two children." 

Um, my husband was 28 at the time, he is a grown man who can pack his own bags.

All this stuff is in the past now, luckily we have a much more loving and supportive relationship now. I was lucky enough to have won over everyone else in his family, from his half-sisters and his brother to his aunts and uncles and extended family.

I think they kept saying I was so wonderful and she was lucky and she saw how happy my husband is, she kinda got over it. I also learned to be understanding because my husband is the baby in the family and it's hard to let go. 

What helped is that she stayed in our home for a week for vacation and she saw how well I took care of her son and our home. As cliche as that is, I guess she needed to see for herself. She is incredibly loving and kind, I think that she just had a really big problem with letting her youngest son go. 

lafephi

I love my husband (and sister-in-law) but cannot fathom how he ended up so normal coming from my mother-in-law. She's not specifically crazy, so much as unstable.

One day, she  called my mother a few weeks before our wedding to express her relief that we would "no longer be living in sin." A little backstory here, my father-in-law divorced her after she had a long affair. Those in glass houses.

Less than 10 minutes before we were all supposed to walk down the aisle, she came rushing back to tell me the toilet paper was out in the ladies restroom and then asked me to go fill it. Sorry, mother-in-law, I'm already wearing the big white dress.

She Recently flagged one of the wedding photos on Facebook as "offensive" because she "never liked how she looked in that photo"... five years after the fact. On top of that, she continually insinuates that I'm fancy and she's not good enough. 

Not to tell on her but she may or may not have tried repeatedly to get on disability without having a real disability. Unless racking up huge credit card bills and demanding her children (one in college, another fresh out of college) to pay her bills for her counts as one.

elizaveyeta

Not my mother-in-law but my sister-in-law, my husband's brother's wife. The first time I saw her before we were even introduced, she told me my husband's mother would try to break us up because that's what the mother had done to her.

My husband and I were married 6 months before his brother married. At his brother's wedding, my husband sat at the bride's table because he was the best man. I was seated in a room next to the main room at the table and the seat farthest from the bride's table. 

People who didn't even show up were slated to be seated in the main room, right next to the bride's table. I asked my husband to do something about the situation, but he is very non-confrontational and didn't want to. I just ate my dinner and quietly left

I was later asked by my in-laws to apologize to my sister-in-law, which I did to try to keep the family peace. My husband and I had to live with his parents for a while after we were married.  His brother's wife told my in-laws that I had stolen from her. They let her search my room while I was not home. Imagine that!

The first Christmas we spent with my husband's family, we had no money. I spent more than I should have putting together custom "beauty" baskets for the women in the family.  His brother's wife made a big deal in front of everyone that I had given her a "cheap" gift. 

The next year, I made sure to buy her a really nice, expensive gift. She then complained that I was trying to show off and outdo her in the gift-giving department. 

There was no winning with that whole family.

Awhq

This story began with an incident at the house of my then-boyfriend. The family insisted that he give up his bedroom for his sister, causing a disagreement. I  tried to mediate, but his mother seemed uninterested in my input. The situation escalated, highlighting a lack of consideration for my boyfriend's perspective.

The mother-in-law exhibited controlling behavior regarding financial matters, asserting that it was none of my concern. This attitude extended to significant discussions about my boyfriend's finances, even when it directly impacted our relationship. This secrecy left me feeling excluded and uninformed.

A critical moment arose when my boyfriend blocked Facebook at the family home with his father's approval. Despite my struggles with medication, his parents unexpectedly arrived late at night to inform him he was no longer welcome. This incident resulted in my boyfriend becoming homeless for several months, illustrating the severe consequences of a seemingly minor disagreement.

My mother-in-law continued to exert control, attempting to regulate my behavior, even down to the way I shared a blanket with her son. When I asserted their autonomy, it led to a confrontation. This pattern of behavior necessitated clear boundaries to be set.

 Furthermore, I shed light on the dysfunctional dynamics within the immediate family, culminating in a drastic reaction to a decision not to invite a troubled aunt to the wedding. This incident revealed the extent of dysfunctionality within my mother-in-law's family.

Pond_song

I'm not married, but my ex-boyfriend's mom is pretty strange, though not as totally insane as some of the posts here. She is one of the reasons I could no longer be in a relationship with him. Here are some of the things she's done:

She Abandoned her first husband, my ex, and his younger brother to go to L.A. to become an actress. She tried to marry another man while still legally married to the father of her children. She got a massively excessive boob job after having children (she is 5'9" and weighs no more than 120 lbs-- the boobs are bigger than her head)

One time she attempted to go to law school online with no prior experience or education. Then she bought a brand-new (and very expensive) car for my ex once she finally allowed him to get his license at age 20. Convinced my ex to not take the MCAT even though medical school is his goal

Add to that list some recurring things like taking expensive vacations around the state for all of her son's baseball tournaments and taking expensive vacations without her husband (just seems very weird to me). Also handing my ex hundreds in cash every time she comes to visit, spending tons of money on things that stretch her face out so she looks younger and yelling at her family in public.

She freaked me out. I never felt comfortable at her house. She has my ex wrapped around her little finger and I'm afraid that he won't accomplish anything in his life because she is obsessed with him and his brother and she smothers them. She has no friends, does not have a job, and treats her husband with disdain. It is very, very sad.

laurasaur28

My mother-in-law is literally crazy. As in paranoid schizophrenic. I have never had any contact with her whatsoever, and my husband bends over backward to make sure I never have any contact with her whatsoever. He's even taken steps to minimize the contact he has with her.

She's not very tech-savvy. One time she was fiddling around with her phone doing who knows what, but she's not getting the results she wants. She accuses me of messing with her phone. 

Did I mention we live 400 miles apart?

raendrop

My mother-in-law is bipolar but doesn't believe the diagnosis and has gone off her meds multiple times. When she's medicated she's a lovely, if somewhat strange, person. When she's unmedicated, watch out.

The first time my husband ever brought me to his house we were in college and only friends.  I was actually dating someone else at the time.  Still, I was the first girl he'd ever brought over, and his mother acted like I was the second coming.  She fawned and fussed and despite our protestations that we were not dating, it was clear that she wouldn't take no for an answer.  

  When we went downstairs to watch a movie (the entire reason I'd been invited over), she announced she was going to "let you two lovebirds be alone."  About 30 minutes later, she stormed into the room holding a litter box, screaming obscenities at her son for not having emptied it. Then she threw it at us from across the room. He was obviously extremely embarrassed, paused the movie, and cleaned it up while apologizing profusely.   

We put the movie back on, and maybe 45 minutes later she appeared at the door again with a big chocolate cake on a platter.  With a huge smile on her face, she announced "This recipe is called 'better than sex!' The two of you will have to tell me if that's true or not!" and gave us a giant wink.

Years later, when we'd been dating for a while and her son was showing no sign of wanting to get married, she begged me to get pregnant on purpose to "trap" him.  "It worked for me!" she said.

A few years after that, when we were already married (with no child yet, thank you very much) I had to help her through an actual honest-to-god psychotic break, where she stopped bathing and was convinced the mushrooms in her yard were put there by her husband to spy on her.

jmurphy

My mother-in-law never seems to amaze me with her craziness. Sometimes she tells me something like; "I think you should be a teacher. Here are some pamphlets that I brought for you for teacher's college. You would be a good teacher, you would have holidays to spend time with the kids". Why don't you become a teacher?"

Anyway, I enrolled in a teacher's college (not because of her). Immediately after her tune changed. "Why would you want to do that?  You need to stay home and look after your kids. I also discovered that she told my husband not to marry me because I would leave him and take any kids overseas - that was 25 years ago.

She also said that I was a bad wife because I didn't make lunch for my husband every day, and twice in his life he did the vacuuming. To add to that list, my mother-in-law can't change a light bulb herself, won't let us have any water in the cat bowl in case a baby drowns in it, we have no privacy if, at her house, she just walks on in. 

I could go on for a good while.

Merkinfumble

My mother-in-law blames me for everything "wrong" that her son does.

She has told me many times that I should do all of the cleaning/make his dinner for work/Make sure that he pays all of his bills on time/Sort out his paperwork for him... Basically, be his second mother.

I tell her very politely that he can do all of these things on his own and that I have my own things to sort out. It never ends well when I do.

rainbowish

When my fiance and I started dating in college, her mom (a single mother), who hates me with a passion, kicked her out of the house over the summer. She has never talked to me and has never met me. 

I believe her hatred of me was originally based on my past as an alcoholic, but as cheesy as it sounds, once I met my fiance I turned my life around, and she has loved me despite my faults. 

Now, I think she hates me because her daughter chose me over her.

I have emailed her mom several times, but she refuses to meet when I ask her. She just gets pissed when she reads them and yells at her daughter over the phone. All she knows about me are stories she's heard from my fiance. I don’t know if she would even recognize me if I saw her on the street.

 After my fiance was forced out of the house, She was forced to live with a family friend. I still don't get it. My fiance loves me with all her heart, and her friends love me too. All the while, my future mother-in-law still blames me for "tearing the family apart".

My fiance has tried to get her to see the reason, but nothing has worked. It kills me that the mother of the woman I love hates my guts. I would do anything just for her to get to know me, so even if you have a terrible weekend with your in-laws, at least you've met them.

gtheorem45

My ex-mother-in-law was Ray Romano's mother on steroids.  She was an expert at complimenting and insulting you in the same sentence, in a way that if I defended myself, I looked like a jerk who was insulting her. 

 She was Catholic and I'm not. She had her priest call her daughter before we were married, to tell her that she would be excommunicated from the Catholic church and burn in hell if I married her.  

When I learned about it, I called the priest and told him he was going to burn in hell no matter what. So that wasn't a good start.

Ronswansonoldman

An ex's mother tried to make my ex cancel our first anniversary together. We planned a small getaway about 3 months in advance, and she was very well aware of it. But lo and behold, the week off, she and my ex just had to go to a family get-together the same weekend. 

She tried to frame it as a small get-together that would be over shortly and that my ex would be able to do both. So we adjusted, my ex would go to the party and head back to me so we could still make our trip. The day came and it was 4 pm, about an hour before my ex and I had planned to leave for our trip.

I called her and asked her how the party was going. She and her mother hadn't left for the party yet. And the party was 2 hours away from where they were. Needless to say, I was beyond pissed and this was the last time I made any sort of a plan between me and my ex. 

I probably should've seen a red flag for that particular ex as well, since she not once stood up for us in all of this, just meekly going along with anything mommy said, even getting upset with me for flipping out after I spent a good amount of money setting up the meager getaway I could manage for us.

Cyanore

My mother-in-law put hexes on people. No, seriously. She was bat trash crazy Polack from Buffalo but somehow became convinced that she was connected to Voodoo gods and could hex people. 

In her bedroom was a rectangle, maybe 4'x10', of tin foil with dozens of partially melted candles on the floor in the corner. When I asked my wife to explain it she told me that her mother held grudges for life and still put hexes on people who had embarrassed her in high school. She even put a hex on me when my marriage fell apart. 

About 3 years after our separation my ex called me and asked me if things were looking up. I was confused and she laughed and told me that her mother had "finally taken you out of the freezer". 

Turns out when we first split my monster-in-law drew a stick figure image of me on a piece of paper and put it in her freezer under the ice trays where it remained for 3 years. 

And those are just a couple of the crazy things this lady did. She died of a stroke alone in her house and my ex-wife, her daughter, refused to attend her funeral.

iconoclast63

My mother looked my wife in the eyes and told her she wished I had dated around more. 

After watching our dog for the honeymoon my mom left an 8-page booklet she typed up on manners that she just left on our counter without comment.

My wife’s mother is a gem, someone I would go to the ends of the Earth for. Someone who showed me what a real parent is.

Welovegv

My mother-in-law told her kids when they were growing up that red grape juice didn’t exist, just to prevent them from wanting it, bringing it into the house, and staining something. That it apparently worked is even more insane.

…I know what kind of story you’re looking for, but I just don’t have it, and I racked my brain to come up with one. My mother-in-law breaks from the stereotype and truly treats me as one of her own, so I consider myself very fortunate.

smartasskeith

We were driving from Missouri to Minnesota, which is basically straight north. My son was riding with her, and me and my wife were in a separate car. 

A few hours into the trip she calls me and says "Should I be seeing signs for Chicago?" The answer is absolutely no. I asked her what the hell happened because I set her GPS to the right destination for her before we left. Her response?

 "It kept yelling at me and it was annoying so I turned it off".

  So she ended up staying the night in some hotel in Illinois and joined us in Minnesota a day late.

Bmc00

My in-laws visited for a few weeks from Australia. My wife’s mother was too anxious to put her clothes in the dryer and instead set up a clothesline right outside the back door. I went outside to rake the leaves, wasn’t paying close attention, and walked neck first into it. 

She will not use a drier under any circumstance (even though they own one) and prefers her clothes to feel like they are made from cutout cardboard. I love them both to death, but they can drive both me and my wife crazy sometimes. 

Somewhatnormalguy

I'm from the US, my wife is from Quebec. Shortly after we were married they wanted to come down to visit us, this was 10 years ago or so. So we said sure but we had a small apartment and told them they could come but had to pay their own way in a Motel and food costs. 

We just got married and didn't have the money because we had to pay off their credit card (this is another story completely). They agreed, came down, found my parents, and invited themselves to stay at their house, requiring them to make them breakfast.

For the time they were there, we had to pay all their food costs and they were picky about what they got (granted they did pay to go out for themselves when we weren't there). And in passing handed my wife her bank records from her account that had about $500 in it that we were saving for living off it when we went to visit them in Quebec. 

It showed they had removed the money from the account (apparently she had access to it somehow). When asked nicely she said she did and didn't see a problem with her actions. I politely told her we considered it our money, as it was, and is my wife's account but since my mother-in-law "needed" it to pay off the same credit card (again) they just took it. My wife was pissed, I was pissed and told them it was stealing. A fight ensued and ended. I took a short 10-minute drive on my motorcycle to cool off.

I came back and found out that my wife's stepdad had tried to hit my wife, and luckily my brother-in-law stepped in and stopped it. I went ballistic. I've never been so mad. Middle of summer near the busy pool of the apartment complex I went off on my father-in-law. 

They had been trying to pack and leave before I got back. I went off on him, pushing him and asking why he tried to hit my wife. I'm much bigger and meaner than this guy and he knew it. He was scared!

A crowd of my neighbors gathered, urging me on obviously knowing what went on because I was yelling it. He backs down and says sorry, and my mother-in-law proceeds to try and tell me that she's the matriarch and we will do what she wants. I made it clear that they held nothing over me and my wife and that we would be doing what we wanted. They left.

I've only seen them once since and talked to them on the phone maybe 5 or 6 times, and half of them were as traumatic as that time. Ever since my mother-in-law has been trying to get rid of me.

I will say that not one person called the cops on me despite the entire pool and a number of onlookers who came out to see the show. And I most certainly looked like I was going to throttle this guy into a bloody pulp. I'm surprised it ended with me kicking him out and telling him never to come back. 

If there was a time I wasn't in control it was then.

dramek

My potential mother-in-law (my Fiance's mother) hates me. My fiance has a child from a previous relationship (age 8, and his biological father is an ultra-deadbeat dad who has seen his son all of 3 times in 8 years and still refuses to acknowledge that he's his. For all intents and purposes, I consider him my son, as I'm the only Dad he's ever known)

Together, we have a 5-year-old and a 6-month-old. My potential mother-in-law tells my soon-to-be stepson to tell his teachers at school that 'Sipowits hits me'. Soon-to-be stepson also has a habit of telling fanciful stories like... "I got hit by a car yesterday!"

All this comes after my Aunt and Uncle have spent the past 2 years fighting to have my Uncle's name cleared. (My 3-year-old cousin fell off a kitchen stool and broke his leg when it slipped inside the rungs. The fracture had a spiral twist to it which was indicative of a "grab & twist" abuse fracture and legally had to report it. 

An investigation and arrest ensued, and even though doctors and police investigators determined that it was just an accidental fall, the DA still pursued charges against my Uncle. 

 He has not been allowed to be alone with his kids in 2 years as they wait for their rightful Speedy Trial to finally have a court declare the charges dropped and have him cleared.  This includes all the attorney fees, lost income (my uncle was a stay-at-home dad) from my Aunt now having to stay at home, and so on...)

Needless to say, I'm scared that the idea that my potential mother-in-law put into my stepson's head will mean I will lose my own children due to our messed up justice system where you are guilty until proven innocent (and even then you're still guilty) when children are involved.

Sipowits

It’s not my mother-in-law but my sisters. So my sister, who was 20 years old then, started dating a guy who was 19 years old.

 Long story short she got into an accident and started taking pills to help with healing and pain. The pills messed with her birth control and she got pregnant. She turned 21 and the baby finally came. As soon as she gave birth, the mother-in-law was the first one at the hospital. 

Before this, the mother-in-law was very rude towards my sister and our family. She made rude comments, ugly looks, etc. So fast forward to the day the baby turned 1 month, the mother-in-law was basically forcing my sister to let her see the baby. Keep in mind this was her first child and the mother-in-law lost 2 grandchildren to miscarriages. 

Despite  my sister setting boundaries the mother-in-law kept breaking them and she would call my sister by different bad names and would even come to her house at 6 a.m. and force her to let her see the baby. 

The mother-in-law has continued to act this way which is just plain rude.

Dry_mathematician370

My mother-in-law had my wife running around for her after my father-in-law died. My wife's sister moved to the other side of town and only came to see mom once a week and usually brought something that mom didn't ask her to get. My wife had to get the right thing the next day. 

When my wife told her mom that the two sisters had to share the work, her mom cut her off. Later mom sells her home, gives the money to her sister, and the sister and her hubby buy a home in a richer part of town. Mom moves in with them into the big home. Mom also cut my wife out of her will. 

We have found out over the years that this situation is quite common. Oh well.

windy444

I just got married at a destination wedding in June. My now husband's parents divorced years ago and proved during his wedding for his first marriage that they can't be in the same town together without causing a drama storm, so they weren't invited.

His mom is very smart despite her disposition and figured out we were getting married. Her response was, "Oh thank goodness I'm not going, I've already been to one of his weddings and I don't want to go through the trouble again." This pissed me off to high hell because I can't imagine not wanting to be around when my child is getting married (even if it is a second marriage), but whatever, screw her.

When we got back she immediately threw a fit insisting that she had no idea. We were poking nicely on Facebook at one of my friends who said he'd come but didn't show, and of course, she commented, "Don't worry, he didn't even have the decency to tell his own mother." 

She's also the type to call him and tell him, "We're going to be at your house on Wednesday and staying for a week." Not asking, just telling. She lives 8 hours away so luckily this only happened once, but I can definitely see it happening in the future.

Every time I hear anything about her, it just pisses me off at this point and I can't wait to move even farther away from her. She hasn't done anything bad, and for that, I'm grateful, because I know she's not a bad person, but she's definitely self-absorbed and passive-aggressive enough to just piss me off.

Luckily my parents are awesome and absolutely adore my husband, so after years of having an utterly trashy family he's finally able to have some decent relatives he can actually converse with. Lucky him.

karygurl

Luckily my future mother-in-law is really nice and seems to like me (letting me use her veil in our wedding), unfortunately, the father-in-law does not. For some reason, he disregards everything I say and gives his son (my fiance) terrible financial advice.

He has 3 bank accounts in my SO's name (that my SO has to pay tax on - we're not talking small amounts here) but refuses to let him have them, and tells us how he's going to use that money to buy land and build townhouses on it.

He is openly scornful of the fact that I am open and honest with my mother. His wife also confided in us that she wants to teach but her husband feels it would be "beneath her" and "a step down".

The pair of us have just bought some land in the next town over from my parents (my future father-in-law did not like it when he heard we were vaguely looking) and the SO has yet to tell him.

Exilius

The worst was the day my mother-in-law threatened to call 911 on my husband. He's 29. She wanted him to be a lawyer. His techie job isn't good enough for her. She had reduced him to tears and told him that he was depressed and wanted him to check into a psychiatric hospital.

The second worst was when her basement got flooded and I found out she was a hoarder.  She had no running water so my then-fiance filled up gallons at my apartment and then brought them over to her.  I went to try to be nice and help with the flooding.  "Watch out for the rat trash," she said. 

 I never set foot in the house again. Ugh... they had a dog that she just let die under the hoard. The dog had died years before, but there were still clumps of fur all over the place, floating in the flood waters with the rat trash and her hospital scrubs (because, at that time, she was a social worker.)

Thankfully, since the wedding three months ago, there haven't been any incidents (except, you know, for telling my grandmother that I only want my husband for his money... the trash that woman thinks up...)  Be damned if she's ever getting to see any grandchildren.

katie-cat-eyes

My Soon-to-be ex-mother-in-law was a Bad Woman. She went into the parking lot to eat at the local bar with a $100 note. She felt this was an honor and accomplishment. I was horrified when people I went to HS were the ones to tell me.

They didn't even know I was ever married just getting a divorce. One day I happened to tell them a story about how she posted pics of herself in a thong on Facebook and she's 50. 

They figured it out when I described her looks and how she thinks she's 21. She also gives her kids “unpleasant substances”. That was obviously kept from me for a long time. That's the least of the trash that woman does and starts. 

Soupastar

An ex's mother tried to make my ex cancel our first anniversary together. We planned a small getaway about 3 months in advance, and she was very well aware of it. But lo and behold, the week of, she and my ex just had to go to a family get-together the same weekend.

She tried to frame it as a small get-together that would be over shortly and my ex would be able to do both. So we adjusted, my ex would go to the party and head back to me so we could still make our trip. The day came and it was 4 pm, about an hour before my ex and I had planned to leave for our trip, so I called her and asked her how the party was going. 

She and her mother hadn't left for the party yet. And the party was 2 hours away from where they were. 

Needless to say, I was beyond pissed and this was the last time I made any sort of a plan between me and my ex. Probably should've been a red flag for that particular ex as well, since she not once stood up for us in all of this, just meekly going along with anything mommy said, even getting upset with me for flipping out after I spent a good amount of money setting up the meager getaway I could manage for us.

Cyanora

Not yet a mother-in-law, but my GF of 3 year's mother spread the rumor to her family that my GF was pregnant without either of our knowledge (she's not). 

I began receiving calls from her uncles threatening to kill me and had to make a call to her (Gf) asking if it was true. When it wasn't I went from terrified to pissed.

proto04

I have many, many stories but the one that sticks out in my mind is one night when I went to visit the future in-laws. I was watching a movie with my fiance and his younger sister when the mother-in-law came in from work. I'd been working out like crazy to get in shape and had lost close to 80 lbs and my fiance was bragging about it. 

His mom looked me up and down, smirked, and said, "Well I'm sure it'll show real soon." Thanks for that shot to my self-esteem.

reinnsreinn

We went to visit the in-laws and her mother was constantly making rude comments, putting me down, etc. Every few minutes, there was a quip.

 Eventually, I got sick of her crap and pretended to be sick so I could go take a freaking nap in peace. Best 5 hours of the entire trip.

Teknofobe

The worst experience was the day my mother-in-law threatened to call 911 on my husband. He's 29. She wanted him to be a lawyer. His techie job isn't good enough for her. She had reduced him to tears and told him that he was depressed and wanted him to check into a psychiatric hospital. 

The second worst was when her basement got flooded and I found out she was a hoarder. She had no running water so my then-fiance filled up gallons at my apartment and then brought them over to her. I went to try to be nice and help with the flooding. "Watch out for the rat crap," she said. I never set foot in the house again.   

Ugh... they had a dog that she just let die under the hoard. The dog had died years before, but there were still clumps of fur all over the place, floating in the flood waters with the rat crap and her hospital scrubs (because, at that time, she was a social worker.)

Thankfully, since the wedding three months ago, there haven't been any incidents (except, you know, for telling my grandmother that I only want my husband for his money... the crap that woman thinks up...) Be damned if she's ever getting to see any grandchildren.

katie_cat_eyes

My MIL used to be a pleasant, charming, intelligent lady. I used to enjoy her company and we used to get along quite well. Notice I say 'used to'. 

In the last couple of years, she has become a hateful, nasty, controlling witch. She takes delight in recalling every little thing anyone ever did 'wrong' according to her, regardless of how long ago it was. Frequently complains about incidents that happened 20 or more years ago. 

She talks trash about her children behind their backs and acts sweet as pie to their faces. A real backstabber. Loves to point out what you are doing wrong and how she could do it so much better. She loves to play 'one-ups' about everything.

Did you get a cold? She has the flu. Do you feel sick to your stomach? She has multiple bleeding ulcers. Her dog is better than your dog. Her house is nicer than your house. Her car is newer than yours.

I could go on, but the point is there. I used to look forward to visiting her, but now, I dread it.

[deleted]

Oh, man. My MIL comments that I'm fat all the time, and she passive-aggressively constantly talks about how much she works out and everyone else's weight. It is so hard to be around her because it makes me feel bad about myself.

She also addresses all mail to me with my husband's last name when I didn't change mine. And she has the extreme religiousness and republican thing going on too and thinks her own way of believing is the only way and judges everyone else.

We don't have kids but I see how she acts toward my sister-in-law and nephew and I feel so bad for them. She's insanely controlling toward my father-in-law too, to the point where I barely know him because she doesn't even let him get a word in conversation and she puts him down in front of us.

All I ever wanted was a second family via marriage and I ended up with this mother-in-law.

redrunner

I moved across the country to be with my long-distance boyfriend. He moved out of his parent's place and moved in with me. The problem is, that they are highly religious and extremely against him moving in with me. For clarification, he is over 25 years old.

So, his parents proceeded to harass him at his work several days a week, and then eventually his mom threatened to kill us both, then herself. Long story short, we have an order of protection against them and we've been living together for a year now!

Reptisessive

This was before she was even officially my MIL... Before the wedding, it came to her attention that I'm pro-choice (my Inlaws are evangelical Christians who don't believe in birth control and have 12 children) and she tried to persuade my husband to break off the engagement because "my beliefs are twisted and would endanger any children we might conceive." 

As you can imagine my MIL and I don't have much of a relationship!

lrj25

My mother-in-law once took my SO's keys to our house and made copies for herself without telling us.

She believes firmly that houses should stay unlocked so that family can walk in and out uninvited as they please. My SO and I do not adhere to this so our doors are always locked. My mother-in-law's reaction was to take my SO's keys and make copies so she could come and go as she pleased.

She was not happy when we changed the locks.

[deleted]

My ex-MIL was Ray Ramono's mother on steroids. She was an expert at complimenting and insulting you in the same sentence, in a way that if I defended myself, I looked like a jerk who was insulting her. She was Catholic and I'm not. 

She had her priest call her daughter before we were married, to tell her that she would be excommunicated from the Catholic church and burn in hell if I married her. When I learned about it, I called the priest and told him he was going to burn in hell no matter what. So that wasn't a good start.

RonSwansonsOldMan

Once I made dinner for the family when she had to buy opiates instead of food. She knew no one had eaten and it was late. I handed her the serving spoon and said "Everyone has been served but you and [her 16-year-old son]."

She took more.than.half. He was right there. So much for being a sweet mother.

hotcaulk

She once stopped by our house to feed the cats as a favor while we were out of town and stole two huge baskets of clean clothes from my bedroom table, took them to her home, and washed them in strong-scented soap because "I couldn't tell by smelling them if they were clean or dirty." 

We use unscented soap because scented gives my youngest DS a rash, so we had to go pick it up and wash it all AGAIN to get the smell out.

The_Freyed_Pan

My MIL told me I was an "ungrateful rude witch, and she has feelings too ya know!" Why you ask? She had been in my home for 3-4 months. She needed to get on the road and it was 3 pm. I asked her "Can I help you pack?"

That statement alone is what set her on a warpath. Imagine that!

Frykitty

My mother-in-law flat out told me that my brother-in-law doesn't remember attempting to rob me and my son (who is intellectually disabled) at gunpoint because he was wasted - and that I should get over it because it's no big deal.

That was all there was to it. “Get over it.” That woman is insane.

leahpet

My mother-in-law asked me 4 times in 10 minutes to move my car because it was 1mm on the neighbor's lawn. Just 1mm! She had to go over to it and look closely to even know because it was such a small amount and it was dark outside.

That is just one example of how much of a tool she is.

song_pond

My mother-in-law was laughing while describing how my father-in-law was driving erratically on his way to drop her off at a party so that he could then drive himself to the emergency room. 

Turns out? His erratic driving was due to an ear infection and pneumonia....

Jnmilthro

My mother-in-law thinks not showering saves on the electric bill, because the hot water heater uses electricity... 

Yet she still keeps the TV running almost 24/7. Had to tell her a few times now that she needs to shower because the smell she leaves behind in the bathroom is nauseating. The BO is also bad.

I-cant-adult-today

My mother-in-law used my husband's social security number to purchase 3 houses during his youth. 3 full houses! She says it was a mix up and she can't understand how it happened, again, and again. 

She is an accountant. As for my husband, well, his credit is royally screwed.

Leakynips

I just need to vent ... Apparently, our wedding is actually my MIL's wedding. She was upset she wasn't invited to the wedding we just went to and said she invited the groom's parents to her wedding. 

Umm, excuse me it was my wedding as I was the freaking bride. Like really? She said "I'm offended. I invited his parents to my wedding" Ugh at least she didn't wear a wedding dress on the day, right?

[deleted]

My mother-in-law offered to throw me a baby shower, so I sent her a list of people to invite and told her to invite anyone else she wanted to. 

So she emailed me back a list of people and told me to add it to the list myself and keep it updated with all their info.  Basically to manage the guest list myself.

[deleted]

My father-in-law offered to throw me a baby shower, did no planning at all then had the cheek to complain to my significant other that my mom hadn't thanked her for the shower. 

Which was a meal at a buffet restaurant, all she did was call up to book and they said no need to just turn up. I invited all my own family and friends and she invited her own work friends.

[deleted]

My mother-in-law posted the picture we were going to use for our pregnancy announcement cards to Facebook before we'd even had a chance to tell some close family members. 

After we asked her never to do that again, she announced the baby's sex on Facebook. Her inconsideration truly knows no bounds at all.

kickslacedandready

My brother-in-law, sister-in-law, some of my sister-in-law's family, and my mother-in-law were all going to an art exhibit. My mother-in-law drove. 

When my mother-in-law got through the exhibit first, she made sure she was finished, got in her car, and left them all at the gallery. 

My brother-in-law and the others managed to get a train back. What a jerk!

Spinderella1780

Not my mother-in-law, but my boyfriend's mother. He waited 6 months to tell his parents we were dating. 

When he did, his mom said she wasn't surprised to hear that he had a girlfriend because he has a  "high stock price on the dating market".

Wow, just wow!

ephony5

My mother-in-law is the actual worst person that I know. She looked at me and said the only reason my child calms down with me is because my breasts produce milk (but she said this in Spanish because she thinks I don't understand her...).

This all happened after my kid freaked out when she held her.

baconbake

My mother-in-law locked me and my newborn in her cluttered home office so I wouldn't bother anybody while nursing. When I sat down to nurse I finally looked around the room and that's when noticed it was basically a shrine to my husband’s exGF from high school (14 years ago). 

The room was filled with pictures of her alone, them together, her high school graduation invite pinned, etc. There's not a single picture of me anywhere in that house. Creepy.

gimme_cheese

We allowed my mother-in-law to watch our child for a week while we were on honeymoon when he was a year old. I felt sick about it but trusted my husband's judgment, not my motherly instinct. On the second day, I called to check in and there was no answer. By late day 3, I was frantic.

I was calling and emailing and had no contact whatsoever. Out of the blue, she then emailed me calling me a bad housemaker, a bad mother, and a horrible human, and still not a word about our son. We got home Sunday night before dawn and on Monday she left. I have not spoken more than 4 sentences to her in 4 years and she has never met our two youngest children.

Thesydneyblackbird

My mother-in-law harassed my girlfriend (now wife) to get a job. She (girlfriend ) was on the phone with me at the time and hid the phone. I heard my mother-in-law's "other voice" for the first time and it was scary.

At the time my girlfriend was working not one, nor two, but three jobs. I mean, there's only so much a person can do. 

Midwestmusician

I was washing HER dishes while she was sitting there having a conversation with a friend of hers.  

Her: Have you seen that movie 'Monster-In-Law'?

Friend: No, I haven't seen it yet. 

Her: I cannot wait to pull that same stuff with my daughter-in-law.

I knew at that very moment it had turned to war.

InMyHead33

When packing up to leave the hospital with our firstborn, she was lurking in the room. I was reading the paperwork I had been given and made the offhand comment to my husband about what our son's blood type was. 

She immediately interjected. "That's impossible! Our family's blood types aren't that!" Funny, baby came out of me--I might have had some participation in those genetics too! 

I personally think she was insinuating the baby may not have been my husbands, which is so ridiculous I just started laughing instead of lunging across the room at her (although the postpartum Percocet helped in that reaction as well, I'm sure).

n0thyme

When my husband and I put an offer on our current house (20 mins from old house, she lives 3 hrs away) she flipped out because she wasn't ready to buy our old house and move away from her family and quit her job... we just didn't give her enough notice. We are terrible people!

What makes it worse is that we didn't even know her plan was to buy our old house. Had we known, we would have told her it was a terrible idea. But we were just supposed to assume that was the plan!

eenidcoleslaw

She bought the world's ugliest champagne flutes as our engagement gift (spoiler: they match HERS) and declared she was making Italian cookies as our wedding favors. Our destination wedding was a 3-hour flight away. 

She baked and shipped the cookies weeks before the wedding; they were moldy on the wedding day.

cranky_mcswede

MIL is having radiation treatment this week and is supposed to stay away from everyone for a few weeks. I'm 39 weeks pregnant.... cue sobbing and hysterics about us keeping "her baaaaaaaaaby" from her. 

We should just allow her to poison us and our newborn because faaaaaaaaaamily. She was in for a rude awakening.

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She got heavily drunk at an out of town faaaaaamily wedding. We were sharing a hotel room with her and enabler FIL as I was poor AF. Listened to her howl and wail, alternately barfing loudly and begging for ex-SO (who went drinking with his cousins and consequently MIA until the next day, bastard) to come back and drive her home from 1 to 7 am. 

The toddler thought it was hilarious and was up the whole time while laughing at Grandma. Needless to say the ride home the next day with hungover MIL and an irate toddler who had been awake all freaking night was a good time.

gypsy_canuck