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| Steve's Mother Inlaw Thread; ... sorry folks, had a typo in the title | |
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| KlavierBauer | Jun 21 2005, 07:59 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Steve asked for a thread where he could reign supreme by telling us how awful his mother inlaw is. So here you go my friend. As far as my inlaws go, they're like extended family in the truest sense of the word. I feel like these people are a second set of parents, and actually call them "Mom" and "Papa". I can't imagine what it's like to have horrible inlaws as some of you do. What a drag! |
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| jgoo | Jun 22 2005, 01:26 AM Post #2 |
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Someday when I'm married, I have no idea what my inlaws will be like, but I do feel sorry for the poor girl who'll have to call my mom her inlaw.
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| jon-nyc | Jun 22 2005, 02:24 AM Post #3 |
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Cheers
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Come on Steve, BRING IT ONNNNN! YOU WANT A SHOT AT THE TITLE? YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME, PUNK??? |
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| apple | Jun 22 2005, 04:33 AM Post #4 |
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my inlaws are wonderful (inlaw now). My mother on the other hand is one of the world's most exasperating women. She kept all the report cards from all her kids but discarded mine because there were too many A's (might make the other kids feel bad). She made me quit piano lessons after I won a contest, because I won and that's all there is to it. She spends 500 a month on heating and cooling but won't buy a new fridge even tho the gaskets have been MISSING for years.. she props it shut with a chair. Bless her soul. |
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| Steve Miller | Jun 22 2005, 06:10 AM Post #5 |
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Bull-Carp
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First off, you need to know that I have two mothers-in-law. One of them, my wife's stepmother, is absolutely wonderful. We see them often and I always enjoy their company. The other one ... I'll offer just two short examples: When my wife's youngest sister turned 14, her mother locked her out of the house and told her never to come back. We picked her up at the County orphanage and ended up raising her until she went away to college. We saw MIL twice during that period, each time it was mostly to complain about how bad she had it. and My wife's grandmother is in her mid 90's. She is still able to live in her own home but requires a nurse 24/7 - which isn't cheap. She's been living on Social Security and drawing down her savings but it's going fast with what the nurse costs. What she needs to do is get a reverse mortgage and/or sell her house - the one grandpa built in the late 40's. There's enough equity there to support her comfortably until the end of her days. Unfortunately, grandma signed the deed over to her daughter (MIL from hell) some 10 years ago, and MIL from hell won't give it back. Last time anyone asked her, she said she "deserved" it. We had to get a restraining order to keep MIL from harrassing grandma, and although they live only blocks from each other, they havn't seen each other in several years. Cozy little family, eh? |
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| apple | Jun 22 2005, 06:12 AM Post #6 |
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one of the angels
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I'd ask KathyK what to do. |
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| jon-nyc | Jun 22 2005, 06:14 AM Post #7 |
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Cheers
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you win, steve. mine is just a narcissist who suffers from logorrhea. |
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| Goober | Jun 22 2005, 06:26 AM Post #8 |
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One time I had logorrhea. But I fixed it. I got into Andy's tacklebox and ate some stink bait. Boy, that'll loosen up a log. |
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| kenny | Jun 22 2005, 06:37 AM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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My mother-in-(not)-law ain't so bad. Her name is Rosie. She's very sweet down to earth and sincere. She smiles, jokes around, and laughs a lot. She is full of love and her four boys mean the world to her. My father-in-(not)-law is pretty cool too. He would think nothing of driving down (5-hour drive) to help Jose fix his car. They are poor Mexican-Americans who are rich because they know what is important in life, family. Rosie and Bennie are always joking around. Bennie will say, "Hey Rosie, pull my finger." They will suddenly just burst out singing or dancing. They are not nuts, just sort of uninhibited and childlike. I guess I'm lucky. It could be much worse. |
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| kenny | Jun 22 2005, 06:38 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Try penicillin. |
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| katie | Jun 22 2005, 06:46 AM Post #11 |
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My mother-in-law started the day my husband-to-be proposed. She wrote me a letter. In it she expressed her "shock" that her only child was being married (among other things). Actually, I should thank her someday for this ... for giving me the "heads-up" re how miserable she could be. I'll concede something: she's a really great grandma for our son. |
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| jkeene | Jun 22 2005, 06:56 AM Post #12 |
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Well, I have multiple mothers-in-law too, but they all seem to inhabit the same body. One MIL is prone to public screaming fits, yelling at her grown children when they're ten minutes late to a beach picnic. Another MIL, maybe the same, gave one of her daughters forty percent hearing loss. These days pediatricians will report it to the state if they have to do multiple repairs for a burst eardrum, but that wasn't a common requirement in the sixties. Our kids do not stay with her unsupervised. |
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| Jolly | Jun 22 2005, 06:57 AM Post #13 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Y'all have my sympathies. My MIL is simply the salt of the earth. |
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| big al | Jun 22 2005, 12:46 PM Post #14 |
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I have no complaints on the MIL score. Of course, it helps that she lives in Florida and I live in Pennsylvania, but we got along OK when we were 1-1/2 hours apart too. I think it helps that my wife is pretty independent minded so she had no illusions about telling her (or by proxy) me what to do. My first wife's mother was actually her step-mother, a fact she didn't find out until she was a teenager. Her real mother died when she was less than a year old. That undisclosed secret created a certain resentment that really didn't heal until they were both much older. This estrangement somewhat carried over to me. Big Al |
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| Luke's Dad | Jun 22 2005, 12:56 PM Post #15 |
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I have none. My wife's mother passed away when she was very young. Her stepmother divorced her father before we got married. |
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| justme | Jun 22 2005, 01:02 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I have the STBXX's mom which I guess is my STBXMIL. Anyhow, I stay away from her and *never* see her alone. She's extremely cruel and emotionally abusive. I never knew people could be evil. She is. She's one of the most righteous women I know and doesn't seem to have a clue the harm she does people. I try very hard not to hate anyone. If I could hate anyone it would be her. I best not go on. Since going back with the STBXX I realize she will most likely always be a part of my life. She's the kid's grandmother yadayadayada... So, we just do what we can. And all we can do is stay away from her. The odd thing is she seems to most people to be the sweetest dearest old lady you ever want to meet. Until you get to know her. |
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| Fizzygirl | Jun 22 2005, 04:14 PM Post #17 |
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As MILs go, mine means well and has a big heart, but she never learned boundries. She thinks she needs to be involved in every decision we make and she tries to advise us on what medications we should be taking because she has looked them all up on the computer. :rolleyes: Sometimes we jokingly refer to her as Dr. Mom. Shortly after Dave and I were married, she announced at a family gathering that she felt she knew what was best for all of us and that we should do as she advised. Yah, right! She truly does mean well, but she is quite intrusive at times. I think she forgets we are grown adults in our 40s! Sometimes I get a feeling it is her calling me in the middle of the day so I just let the answering machine get it. 9 times out of 10 I am right and thankful I did not answer the phone. Otherwise I'm in for a 2 hour conversation and analysis of my marriage. I am thankful we live an hour away, or she would be dropping in all the time unannounced. As she has gotten older (I think she is 75 now) we have stopped telling her much about our business. It just seems to open up a can of worms. She is a very anxious person and has made a hobby out of worrying. So we tell her little to nothing. We talk about the weather and other members of the family, etc. She constantly belittles my FIL and that upsets me. He is 80 years old and a WWII veteran and likes to talk about the war. It drives her crazy. When he starts to tell a war story, she interrupts him and says, "Oh Peter, we've heard all that before. Talk about something interesting for a change. If you can't contribute something of value, just stay quiet." Well....I could go on, but... My own mother (God rest her soul) was 10 times worse when I was growing up. She was very short tempered and could be down right cruel. I honestly could never figure out how my father (God rest his soul) lived with her so long, but he balanced her out. He was the sweetest and most kind man I had ever met. He had endless patience and always had a joke ready to tell. His blue eyes always twinkled like he knew something special. I loved my father more than words can express and I miss him terribly.
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