Katelobster
Setting a wedding date was really difficult for us because our my fiance's work schedule, our priest's availability, and his 17-y/o sister's graduation/prom events. We're very conservative and won't live together before we're married, so we wanted a slightly shorter than average engagement (8-9 months) because we are anxious to start our lives together. We finally picked a date in early May that seemed to work for everyone, and his mother threw a fit that having the wedding a few weeks before his sister's high school graduation would take the attention off her. My future mother-in-law actually said she would not attend our wedding, or let her daughter attend, if we had the wedding in the month of May. Wow, just wow. What a way to start off an engagement. So we decided to make her even more mad and have the wedding in March, which she claimed would decrease the chance that her out-of-town relatives with teenage children would come. Too bad!

kdunevant
When we lived near my husband's parents, they would "cook us all dinner" and make sure she didn't cook ANYTHING I could eat. I don't eat meat, and prefer simple veggies.... She'd always tell my husband what she would include for me, and none of it would actually be there. Hey, I'd be happy with a can of corn, but she would always "forget" to make me something.....riiiiight

mston31
Today I caught my MIL going through my drawers. She acted like nothing happened. She slept in our bed last night and I'm positive she looked through my bedside table. My husband and I enjoy using toys, massage oils and flavored lube among other things. She hasn't said anything because last time she was snooping, the HPT she found wasn't even mine!

lizpyz
My MIL still finds the need to stay in touch with my husband's ex and his ex's mother. I've even gone so far as to tell her that it really hurts my feelings and she laughs and says that I need to get over it! At our rehearsal dinner before our wedding I heard her yelling at my husband about how nothing about the wedding was going as she wanted and that she was told that she was inviting too many people and that I thought she threw the shower all wrong. Thankfully, my husband is really supportive and said, "Mom, you didn't give us any money for the wedding, so you have no right to invite 250 people and you didn't even throw a shower, so how could you throw a shower all wrong."

ogamiaqt
I had asked my MIL (who previously worked in a bakery) for help with our wedding cake. I made the cakes and the buttercream and dropped them off with dowels, cake stand, etc. the day before the wedding. She was to torte them, frost them, tier them, and then add the ribbon I provided and deliver the cake to the reception. Once everyone had eaten at the reception we decided to cut the cake. I almost had a stroke when I saw the cake table. She hadn't torted or tiered any of the layers. Each layer was on its own plain cardboard round, and around the bottoms of each layer was my ribbon, twisted with plastic pearls. Then to top it off, literally, she sprinkled the tops of each layer with sugar crystals. The sugar completely ruined the incredible texture of the French buttercream. I was and still am completely mortified and have never said a word to her about it.

CarrieLauren
Maui, I feel your pain! my MIL tries to tuck in the back of my husband's shirt, will reach into his pocket to take his wallet out (only then to balk at how big it is bc of reciepts etc...none of her business), she will walk over when we are sitting together and try to massage his shoulders or his feet, AND she has been in my home and one moment I'm a "leach" because I walked over while my husband was on the laptop and put my arms around his neck and then the next moment she hugs all over him and looks right at me and says "because someone has to love on you" AHHHHHH Man that woman knows how to push my buttons! She even made me cry by saying something rude right after I had just had a tumor removed and was in the recovery room from surgery! I told my husband if he doesn't start handling his mom, we're going to have issues lol

winepolish
My mother in law volunteered me to throw my husband's cousin (who I have met all of twice) a bridal shower. I found out when I received the invitation in the mail-- she didn't even have the nerve to call and ask me but there my name was as "hostess of the shower" on the invitation. Did I mention that I live in a town two hours away and am a resident physician working 80+ hours a week? Thanks MIL. Thanks a lot.

slowpoke52785
My MIL speaks very little english, she is Mexican but has been in this country for 24 years!! They like to invite us out to dinner with them and there 4 younger children and then ask my husband in spanish if he can pay...Hello it is OUR money not just his. How rude! My husband learned very quickly never to say yes to them on anything with out talking to me first...BTW, we were in Mexico at thier 25 wedding aniv. and his dad tells me...You need to learn spanish. I told him I would learn spanish the day his wife learns english...I really could go on and on and on. I dont know how my huband comes from this family, he is so different.

COURTNEYMARET
My MIL invited herself on our honeymoon. (We did not let her come.)

sarisa82
Oh my how I can relate with some of these from a previous engagement thank goodness I didn't get married into that family... but the choice I made when I did get married brought some interesting turns... My brother in law has like this IQ that is out of the roof so carrying on a normal convo is like trying to understand a math problem, I constantly tell him to quit cussing at me. The mother in law is a good woman another one of the mensa moms though very intelligent and buried deep into the military wife ways but what is interesting is when she tells us in long emails about every single one of her health problems in detail ... as for my father in law, lets just say he still hasn't fully grasped his son is married... my husband is the youngest they recorded the victoria secret fashion show so my husband could watch it when we came to visit for christmas in california granted this was the first time we were meeting, when they mentioned that you could hear the record scratch and my daughter immediatly looked at me and said what is the victoria secret fashion show can i watch it... she's 4. So much for that.

COURTNEYMARET
My MIL invited herself on our honeymoon. (We did not let her come.)

nikiyaki
Some of these just seem "different" not "terrible", like leaving meat out. I thaw it in the fridge but I'd prefer seeing it thawed open air to what my own in-laws do - always defrosted in the microwave. I'm disturbed by that semi-cooked before it even gets near a stove style.

shortydaisi
My MIL gives me & my daughter her old used junk as Christmas & birthday gifts. For my daughters first birthday everything she got was old nasty stuff.

kzoobride1007
My MIL comes over and plants flowers when I'm not there on top of where mine are budding, buys ugly "realistic fish" items and places them in and around my house without asking (I hate fish decor, I might add), and threw her "own" second wedding for us because she doesn't have a daughter and says she deserved to plan her own. All of this and she calls my husband sometimes 10x a day!!

SilverUnicorn
I meant my feet...Can you tell I was just talking to her? lol

SilverUnicorn
My ML is a major drama queen, and she's jealous of me. When she comes to visit, anything my husband does for me, she expects an even grander jesture. If he puts his hand on my shoulder, she asks him for a back rub. If we're on the couch and I prop me feet in his lap, she asks him to massage hers. Then she'll sit next to him and run her hand through his hair and around his ear because "he loved that when he was a baby". That was 37 years ago!!! Oh, and ever since her bypass surgery, if you don't do exactly what she wants, she tells you you're upsetting her and making her chest hurt.

sherry831
My Mother got my husband a "Just did it" tee shirt, and expected my husband to wear the Sexual T-shirt in front of my Deacon Father...What that nerve!

sherry831
My Mother got my husband a "Just did it" tee shirt, and expected my husband to wear the Sexual T-shirt in front of my Deacon Father...What that heck?

Brigittassen
my MIL is seriously an opera diva- (she sings, and is really good) but she somehow thinks this can carry over into real life. She does guilt trips with capital letters and cries and throws fits at parties (especially when they're not her parties) she invited us to a friend's daughter's wedding ( we don't know the woman or her daughter) just to show off her grandson. A nine hour drive with a ten month old, a hotel room, and an evening wedding reception...uh, no.

bridetobe6808
My father in law thinks that eating a peppermint patty before bed is just as ood as brushing his teeth.

xoxoamericangrl
tami ... reading your comment was like having dejavu!

Maui71407
my mother in law tries to tuck my husbands shirts in and will give him spit baths... in public. its just disturbing ..

tamipowers
My future MIL took me aside at my birthday party and said "You know, you look pretty, but you'd look so much better if you wore more make up and did your eyebrows like mine...I can do them for you" she continued "You need to look more sexed up for him, men love that" I replied "He doesn't really like that whorey look but thanks for the offer."