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

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

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?

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.

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!!

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

Sometimes my MIL likes me a little too much. :) My husband is the oldest of four boys, and his mom was waaaay anxious for him to get married. She fasted every month for him to find a wife. Before we were engaged, we made the 10 hour trip to his fam's house and his mom said that there was going to be a "little family dinner" one night. Unbeknownst to me, she invited about 20 relatives over when my guy and I were out. I walked in (a little grubby from riding around on a moped wearing a helmet) she announced that "the guest of honor is here!" And I get mobbed by grandmothers, uncles, aunts, cousins, and second cousins telling me that they "hope he keeps you" and that "I fit right in with the family!" For the wedding, I had to be careful what I said around her. I said I liked beachy colors and she bought a bunch of candlesticks made from starfish and sea urchins, a basket made of thousands of seashells, and decorative fishing nets to decorate the cake table. I told her what our colors were and she bought hundreds of yards of fabric in colors that were similar, but didn't really match ours. We found ways to use it all, but my guy had to keep telling her not to randomly buy mass quantities of things she thought I might like. I guess it's a good problem to have with a MIL if you're going to have any problems...

my future SIL(who is my fiance's ONLY sibling) won't come to our wedding unless she can bring her ex-con boyfriend with her.

When I first met Grandpa-in-law, he couldn't remember my name, so he called me Shirley. Five years later, I'm still "Shirley."

okay, i dont normally comment...but reading these i had to share. sorry if tmi. My MIL barged into, yes, forced her way into, the delivery room just minutes after I had delivered my daughter, and literally moments after I had delivered the placenta. She took one look at me and said, "oh, honey, you don't look so good" then she refused to leave the room... even though i hadn't had a chance to tidy up.. or even embrace the birth of my child, and she argues with the nurse (via my husband) about giving my daughter a Hepatitis vaccine.--- coming from a woman who sucks down antibiotics when she gets the sniffles--- Yep, I could have killed her that day.

Its strange...I was friends with my husband for 4.5 years, then dated for 3 years before we got married...but he has a sibling that truly believes they know 'the real me' and I have been tricking him all these years... really?! (ps, I've only known that sibling in passing since I started dating my now husband) Boy is it fun getting together with tht side of the fam!