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10 Mother-In-Law Horror Stories

Moms shared their MIL nightmares on our message boards

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1. "I feel like she's getting in my place as the mom... I'm scared my baby boy would grow up being closer to her than me." -- 1st_timers

2. "This should be about me and him -- not me, him, his mom, and his sister." -- Sept29th

3. "(They) tell me that my son will have ADHD if he watches 30 seconds of TV or the fact that he's gluten-free will turn him into an anorexic." -- jaxon1015

4. "After an hour of listening to why my wife was insufficient, and I was abusive, and we should have a second child... I suggested it was time to go." -- bangordad

5. "It's not so easy being a sister-in-law, living with the in-laws. I am expected to be cooking for them, cleaning up their messes, and have to watch what I say. It is so frustrating." -- mrs_yang

6. "Yesterday when I went to get my birth control, it was missing. It was in the kitchen where she was cleaning, and now I can not find it. She does not approve of birth control, because she thinks it is a mortal sin." -- tierrajo1

7. "My father-in-law 'accidentally' threw out my engagement ring while cleaning. I had taken it off while cooking. We looked everywhere for it and found it in the garbage rolled in a napkin and stuffed in a macaroni box!" -- brandie1127

8. "I was holding him and rocking him, trying to soothe him, and she actually got down on her knees next to me and started 'shhhh'-ing in his ear and then said, 'here, let me have him,' as if I don't know how to do it myself! What the heck does she think I do when she's not around!?" -- WWmama

9. "When we go and visit my in-laws, I always give my MIL the baby to hold right away. Otherwise, that woman will follow me and my daughter all over the entire house." -- lholland

10. "My in-laws are boy makers! So now that I'm pregnant with a girl I get to hear all the wonderful 'Oh, I'm so glad I didn't have girls,' 'I never wanted girls,' Girls are 'this,' girls are 'that'. I feel blessed to have whatever I would have been given, boy or girl. How do I handle all the negativity? [My husband] has one female cousin, and she gets to hear it all the time. I think that is why we never see her at family functions." -- brandie1127


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