Lets compare Inlaws, vent away here!

[my babyemmy]

Hi girls, a lot of us have many,many probs with in laws, I have had too many to mention but here is a few!
My MIL took over my whole wedding.
Emmy had her first Easter,everyone else i know got her something EXCEPT FOR the IN LAWS!
At the in laws house there are 15 or so photos of the other sons child, none of Emmy!
oh i wont even get started on my crappy SIL, she does something to p*ss me off everytime i see her!!!!!
ok getting too angry now. Please vent away
Enjoy :hugs:

[drewid]

Oh, I hear you about the photos! My inlaws had photos of their first grandchild EVERYWHERE around their house....we had our baby not too long after and for months there was only ONE photo of him amongst the thousands (ok i could be exaggerating!) of hers.

Soooo.....for Christmas we bought a huge photo frame that has heaps of photo spaces in it - FULL of Andrew :) Every time I see it on their wall I smile :D

[Seekrit]

We've been married for 2 years and there's no photo of us on the mantle, simply because we haven't given them photos. Not out of spite.
Perhaps you should give them a framed photo for their wall? :)

[my babyemmy]

oh yeah i forgot too mention there are no weddings photos of us up anywhere!
we have tried the photo frame ideas and she just says "i need more time to put them up!":banghead:

[mytwolilprinces]

oooh, don't get me started about photos! My in laws have a big board full of photos that they put together ( only recently ) and they had professionaly framed etc. Anyway, I was checking it out whilst no one was looking and guess who doesn't appear ANYWHERE - there are literally 50 photos on the wall! Of course, they wouldn't want an image of me spoiling their little collection now would they? - They have my husband and my son plastered all over the wall though - they have a wedding photo but it's a SINGLE SHOT OF MY HUSBAND - can u believe it??

[Mamaduke]

When Jesse got his first photos done my in-laws (despite being very well off financially) refused to purchase one them stating, "it wasn't worth it".
There is a huge portrait of their daughter and her husband up on the wall but 7 years later there is not one photo of our wedding...there are 2 smaller ones of our wedding but the bride (me) is not in any of them!
We gave them a photo of us that my friend took and it wasn't put up until 'smother in law' had taken a photo of "The Ice Princess" and "The Toad" (SIL and her husband) with their cocker spaniel...they don't like children, but they lurve their 'hairy son' Harry :barf: !!
Other wonderful in-law occurences have been;
*inviting DH's ex to our wedding
*masquerading as a member of my family in order to get a store to divulge how much money was owing on a particular layby for our engagement party
*making our little boy sleep on a mattress on the floor whilst 'the hairy grandson' slept in the bed
*"Ice Princess" winding my child as she flung him off a sun lounge because he squirted her with a water pistol
*spending $2000 on a custom made blackwood cover for their billiard table so our boys couldn't touch it
*not coming to our son's birthday party because it was at McDonalds, instead inviting their whole family to come to our house that morning (unbeknowns to us)
There are many more occasions of pathetic in-law behaviour but for some reason my mind has chosen to block them out...:rolleyes:

[SweetDreams]

Mamaduke... I am :devil6: :mad: :devil6: about your inlaws for you!! What a bunch of nasties!

[Starlet]

My ex's mum was horrible! She was really his step mum(his mum lived in another state). She would always go on about my ex's step brothers and sister kids, not ours. She'd buy THEIR kids really expensive stuff and when she could be bothered buying our kids something, it was some cheap crappy toy that broke within 5 minutes.

Now I have a WONDERFUL MIL, I love her to bits! She treats my kids like her own grandkids, even tho they're not. We get along really well, she got me some casual work last year and we worked together for a while.

[*Chels*]

i hate my mil,shes a **** ********* ***** *****
as u can probably tell from my "omg i hate my mil" thread
:mad: :devil6: :banghead: :mad:

[mrsrobo]

I do not get along with my inlaws they dont like me beacuase now they dont have control over him and cant tell what to do anymore they still try. They tried to set him up with what my hubby called her mutton dressed up as lamb while we were dating.
They kept asking after we got married are you preg yet ever time they saw me and when i fell preg they did not believe us at first. There house is a pig sty food stuck on cups they give you to drink out of. They would not not what clean was it if hit them in the face. I could go on but be here all day.

[Veritas]

Me ex's mum asked the ex (we were together at the time) whether he would still be with me at christmas so she knew whether to get me a pressy.... she ended up getting me some hidious portable jewellery case... ummmm I don't travel and I don't wear jewellery... hmmm

She also used to tell me I wasn't feeding the ex properly.... ummm isn't it a good thing he was no longer overweight... and for the record I did feed him plenty, just not the bad stuff she fed him.....

Oh and we went to a friends 21st to which his mum & dad were also invited, the ex was at the bar when they arrived and she walked straight past me and sat at the opposite end of the room....

Thank goodness she is no longer in my life!!!!!

Funny thing is I have another ex's mum who is soooo lovely.... she used to constantly harrass him about what he had done wrong, and he would say nothing, she would come back with girls like that don't leave you for no reason (he did some nasty stuff to me).... lol.... she used to even send messages through mutual friends about when he was single hoping we'd get back together, and whinge to me about his new gf's.... she sounds evil, but she wasn't.... she was/is the nicest woman and we still get along to this day!

[RaryGirl]

My husband I got engaged on New Years Eve 2004 and when we went to tell the MIL - she smiled and said "How's those tsunami - weren't they bad" and the engagement wasn't mentioned again!!!! :laughing:

[Mamaduke]

My husband I got engaged on New Years Eve 2004 and when we went to tell the MIL - she smiled and said "How's those tsunami - weren't they bad" and the engagement wasn't mentioned again!!!! :laughing:
That's lovely isn't it!
The news that her son was going to marry you was up there with natural disasters!!
At the end of the day...we've got what they want (their sons)...that helps me sleep a little better at night...:devil6:

[RaryGirl]

At the end of the day...we've got what they want (their sons)...that helps me sleep a little better at night...:devil6:

I know what you mean Mamaduke!

One thing I'm not going to be is an awful MIL when my children get married!!!!! We'll break the evil :devil6: MIL cycle!!!!!

[TwoBlue]

my IL's have still not given us a pressie or even a CARD for the birth of Ds#2 because he was a boy.... :(

[mrsrobo]

We never recieved a engargnment or wedding present but my sis in law did and also my father in law did not say a speech at the wedding but at my sis in law.
:(

[CJJHRA]

I remember when I was preg with my first son, the FIL (ok we werent married, but still will call him the FIL) he said to my partner, to leave me while he had the chance, while I was pregnant, so he couldnt become attached to the baby, so it would be easier to move on!

SIL was preg at the same time (she was only 2 weeks further along than I was) and of course they thought I copied her!! I mean WTF!!! yeah right! Every time the inlaws saw us they went on about my partners sisters babies (she was having twins) and they would never once mention about the baby I was having... from day one they never approved.

Oh just remembered before that. . I had know my partner like 6 months, and his sister was getting married, and I suppose that this is half DH's fault, he just assumed I would go with him to her wedding, he never really asked me to come along (though I never wanted to go) I was only just turned 18, and the local fair was on the same weekend, and I wanted to go there with my friends instead, not on a 2 day trip to the city!!

Anyway the FIL said, said to my partner, that it was fine, as he had someone else lined up to go with him!! Someone more suited!!See I was dirt from day one, and I dont know why still to this day!

[mythreelittlemonkeys]

I dont have a MIL as she died when Andrew only 9 months...and I hardly ever see his father adn stepmother but when I do it makes me sad that there are no photos of our wedding on the mantle or of us together - and I know they have them as we gave them a CD of all the wedding pics...but hetre is still a photo of Andrew and his ex...and they couldnt stand her - so what does that mean of what they think of me...the only thing I cna think is that Andrews ex is holding Lacey (ANdrews first born) and so thats why the photo has pride of place...but still doesnt explain why no photos of Andrew and me...not bothered saying anything as prob cause problems...wierd though andrew adores my mother...he calls them Mum and Dad...or Mother and Father when being cheeky! He days when we were in UK my family made him feel more loved then his ever had...

[bec79]

I'm not even going to start....I'd be here all day!!:mad:

[M O P]

My mil failed to give a member of their family any details about me for their research for a family tree!
She wanted a family photo done when we were engaged, but she wanted just the "Oursurname family only" ie not me, the fiancé but she did have her Mum in it, who's not got the same surname!
Mil asked me about 20 times in 2 years when my birthday was. It is the same day as her youngest son's, so not hard to remember!
She is practically an alcoholic so comes up to stay and writes her self off every night. So every night we hear the same lectures and stories! And she doesn't remember a thing we've told her!:banghead: eg "Don't call your baby Shane, or Wayne, or Dwayne" is a favourite, that was the first thing she said when we told her about preg and she's said it about 10 times since! Excuse me, call she/he what ever we want lady!!
She literally rolls her eyes at everything I do!

[Pixie]

each page on a thread holds 10 posts...If I posted about my MIL it would take up those ten spots...:D
I'll just remain quiet for now lol until she annoys me oh ok he's a snippet from a post I made last weekend lol

Well MIL came to vist yesterday she turned up with one of those little suitcases on wheels....already I was nervous she is a serious rubbish dumper so out came the 4 tubs of cottage cheese....hmmm takes us 2 weeks to nearly finish one, old soft onions hmmm thanks for those and some horrible turkish creation which can be nice if made properly lol so she got the sh!ts as when she turned up I was feeding Eliza and made a snide comment saying well "I can't even hold her as the mother has her" this made me pretty annoyed and then I felt pressure to hurry up her feed, then I said to myself err **** her just feed her, in fact feed her extra long so she goes to sleep so I did so then she cuddled her sleeping while I did some ironing and got DP to help me make the bed....then after an hour or so the fun and games really began..she asked "who's surname is Eliza getting?" Now she is getting mine as DP said he suffered so much at school here in Australia for being Turkish and having a Turkish name so we decided to give her mine. Being the English monster I am lol so the fireworks started and she started to scream that it's wrong and she should have the fathers surname then she decided she had better leave after I said "look can you not argue around my child, and it doesn't matter about her name, she has two parents who love and care for her very much, that is what matters, then she started on the fact we're not married ......GAWD SAKE DP said look 8 years together pretty good mum back off..... so she got her suitcase and we saw her out ...my gawd sometimes I wonder about people she's old Turkish and traditional and well we're not lol ANYWAY"S

give you an idea:rolleyes: