Re: The INSANE MILS support group

[Guest guest]

Oh man, I am loving these MIL stories! Its so nice knowing I'm not

alone with the crazy in-law. Kellie, I have know idea how you are

able to keep a straight face when she comes out with things like the

Gulf War Syndrome!!

I swear I could write a book on my MIL. Like how when and I

were dating (he was 20 and I was 19) he had a 10:00 curfew on

weeknights, and 11:00 on weekends. Or when we told her that I was

pregnant (, stop singing Love Child!!!) she literally threw

herself at screaming that she curses the day he ever met me.

Hmmm, or the fact that even though I was pregnant and we had been

engaged for over a year, she was still trying to fix him up with a

Polish girl (my Irish blood isn't good enough I suppose) And when

Urzula ran out of the house at Christmas dinner because she was so

heartbroken that I was pregnant, MIL ran after her to console her and

was mad at me the rest of Christmas. It wasn't until after the twins

were born that Urzula finally got it through her head that I'm not

going anywhere. So whenever we watch the Little Mermaid, I make it a

point to remind the kids that anyone named Ursula is a bad person!!

Oh man, she stormed out of my house once because I had little

in a shorts suit for his first Easter, he was 4 days old and she

didn't think it was right for him to be in shorts. At one of little

Kev's birthday party, my saintly mom and I were saying how

(meaning the little one) was a terror with the new baby and didn't

know how to care for the baby. In front of all of my guests she

YELLED at me saying that I was lucky to have (meaning the big

one) in our lives and she won't stand for someone to talk about him

like that. After listening to her for a good 10 minutes we told her

that she misunderstood, did she once apologize....nope. Oh, and at

the twins first birthday party, just as we were lighting the candles

on the cakes, she yet again stormed out of my house because we

weren't paying enough attention to her! I swear to you that was her

reasoning! I told that he is not allowed to show her any

pictures of the twins making a mess of their cakes because its her

own fault she missed it. If she wanted to see it, she should have

stayed. Like I don't have enough to worry about with 4 kids and a

house full of guests, now I have to wonder if I'm kissing her arse to

her liking too? I don't think so!

I'm sure I will have a lot more stories after Easter. And wish me

luck, next weekend is my oldest's birthday party. I'll let you know

of she storms out of this one too.

Sorry this is so long, but it sure feels good to vent!!

Niki (who hopes she didn't offend anyone that is Polish or named

Urzula)

Kaylie & Danny

Phila., PA

> Hey, can I join? Please? Pretty Please! My MIL is a Bible-

thumping hippy

> from the 60's who thinks she has every ailment from fibromyalgia to

MS. What

> she does is she looks up illnesses online and reads the symtoms,

and if even

> one correlates, that's what she has! She once called me in a panic

yelling

> that she had the Gulf War Syndrome....hmmm...I thought you had to

be in the

> Gulf War to report that illness! Then she went to the doctor and

TOLD the dr

> she had MS!

>

> My MIL is a very nice person, she likes me, she doesn't judge my

parenting

> skills...in fact she tells me all the time that I am doing a great

job with

> , but to hear the stories about my husband's childhood with

her, I am

> like June Cleaver compared to her. She was constantly sick and

spent the

> whole day laying in bed watching tv...

>

> I can only take about 15 minutes of her, because she cannot talk

about normal

> things. She takes about five Bibles with her wherever she goes,

and I

> believe in the Bible and have no problem with people's beliefs,

however if

> she's visiting and my husband's at work, I can rest assured I am

going to get

> a preaching-to! Eight hours worth! She doesn't try it with my

husband, as

> he isn't afraid to tell his mom enough's enough...I'm too nice...I

just smile

> and nod, smile and nod and add the appropriate uh-huhs and mm-hms,

and " Oh,

> that's interesting. "

>

> And then! Almost every conversation has to involve 's dad

and how he

> didn't really want to divorce her and some day he'll wake up and

realize he

> doesn't love his new wife and that he wants to be with her

again.....I don't

> have the heart to tell her the truth.

>

> Anyway, sometimes I am grateful though. Although she is annoying

in ways,

> she is not judgmental of me, never has been. She loves her son but

is not so

> overprotective of him that it affects how she treats his wife. She

tells me

> all the time that she is glad he found me....now don't I feel bad

for ragging

> on her? hehe

>

> Kellie, mom of

> Tacoma, WA