October 2010 Weddings
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Re: let's play: "My In-Laws are so crazy..."
My mother-in-law is so crazy that she called the cops on Jason on Christmas Eve one year for trying to kill her by crashing the car into their garage and running over her. He was in the car with her and they don't have a garage....
She's literally crazy.
Wow... I can't even... wow.
Yeah she's lovely lol
OMG - I'm not allowed to play this game in great detail, as DH knows his mother drives me a bit nuts sometimes, and he is a software engineer, therefore knows how to search for anything I'd say.
His father and step-mom are wonderful, amazing human beings, who I absolutely adore.
She calls most nights, if I answer she doesn't even acknowledge me (say hi, how are you... nothing) and just asks to talk to DH. I refuse to answer the phone when she calls now, especially if I am the only one home.
She leaves the same message everytime, it's like its scripted or something.... now imagine a whiney squeeky voice and this is what she says "hiiiiii Justin, this is your mother calling, i guess you are not home AGAIN. I find it hard to believe that your life is so busy that you can't call your mother every day to tell her you love her (long akward pause) ok call me back... i looooooove you!". When she hasn't talked to him for a few days she adds "I'm going to call the police department to send out a search squad for you".
It makes me laugh at how pathetic she can be and DH just ignores it, he NEVER calls her back and sometimes ignores her calls too. and their conversations as he says are pointless, she just calls to check up on him, asks when HE'S going over to visit and if HE is going to join them on their trip to florida/ family cruise. I am excluded from everything with his side of the family, he even has arguments with her over this because I have done nothing to deserve the treatment I get from her.
FIL and his brother and sister are great and we get along well its really just her....
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MIL told me how inconsiderate we were during wedding planning because the tuxes we wanted the groomsmen to wear were going to be $160 (including shoes and everything) and she felt we could get them for $100 and it was inconsiderate to ask for so much money. DH had two brothers who were groomsmen 35 and 39 years old)- plus my brother- and 3 friends). None of DH's friends complained about the cost. Only DH's one brother (who is a nurse and his wife is a doctor and they have plenty of money) and she complained on behalf of the other brother. I'm sure she thought I was an even bigger beyotch when my response was "The Bridesmaids are paying $150 for their dresses, $30 for their shoes, plus getting their hair done, and flying/driving in from out-of state, and getting hotel rooms. All the groomsmen live in the town we're getting married in (except my brother), so I don't feel bad for them". I mean, they could have declined to be GM and if $160 is all you spend to be in a wedding, that sounds pretty good to me? Her response was "but the girls at least get to keep their dresses". So what? It's not like most of them will wear them again, or often if they do.
Wow. That's really awful. Sorry she isn't more gracious toward you. Also, it would annoy the heck out of me if Felix's mom called him every night like that. Thankfully, she is a great MIL to me. His dad passed when he was young, so I never met him.
I feel bad for a lot of you ladies! No good
DH's father passed away in '96, and his mother had a stroke in '03, so she can't speak (she understands, but when words try to come out she says "two two"). But is very close to his mom and was close to his dad. I missed out
His sister is a talker, but no issues with her!
This made me laugh!
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I honestly can't complain much so my things are going to sound petty and really they are; I have a great married into family:
MIL will take a head cold and assume I'm pregnant even though we've told her we are not trying until after our cruise, But she obviously knows I'm on some form of birth control because last weekend recession babies came into conversation (SIL and several of our friends are expecting) and the fact that there are so many because the economy sucks so people are having more sex and I looked at DH and said, why isn't this working for me (as in why don't we have more sex) and she goes into an explanation of how if you are on any form of birth control you won't get pregnant-um yeah, I'm not an imbecile I've figured out that birth control prevents you from having to give birth!
She also always feels the need to bring extra food when we have them over for dinner and help out in the kitchen...I've started making everything in the crock pot or having it ready to go in the oven before she gets there! Last week they were here for birthday meals (BIL, SIL and MIL) so I was making crab stuffed shells, salad with homemade dressing, cake and ice cream and I sent out the menu ahead of time so they knew and SIL could say if something would upset her sensitive stomach...she still shows up with cookies...now we are all dieting, she is diabetic and so is most of my family so we try to limit sugar, why the heck do we need both cake and cookies?
I love my MIL and her husband, they are amazing. At first I didn't think that she liked me very much since she was really close to Lance's ex, but now we get along great. Same with Lance's sister and brother, we are really close to them also and do things with them very frequently.
FIL on the otherhand, makes me want to scream and I avoid contact with him and his family at all cost. Lance's SM is a MORON, today she backed into FIL's truck, they live on a farm with tons of room, I don't know how she even managed this. I swear that she was not born with any common sense or even a quarter of a brain. FIL's mom, who I refer to as grandma Hitler, is a total jerk face. She made the biggest scene at our rehearsal because I was not including Lance's SM in the processional, it was so embarassing. When I was working 2nd shift FIL would purposely ask Lance to help him with things on Saturday mornings when he knew that was one of the only times that we had together. GRRRRR!!! Just typing this makes my blood boil!
unfortunately/fortunately I can't play this game very well. my in-laws aren't crazy. They're actually really sweet. My FIL creeps me out a bit when he kisses me on the cheek every single time he says hello or goodbye at a visit. I know this is totally normal for like most people, but touchy feely stuff is very awkward for my Finnish family. I remember when my dad hugged me when I was 15, and THAT was weird. And now I'm getting sloppy kisses on my cheek and I feel violated. So yeah. I'M crazy. Not my in-laws.
My MIL is so crazy, she spend nearly $50 sending us $10 worth of junk in a box to Japan. Stuff like toilet paper and chocolate and other stuff that we could buy in Japan and didn't need shipped. This, I blame 100% on my husband, who was going through terrible culture shock at the time and was calling home to mummy and telling her what a horrible 3rd world country Japan was. So yeah. My hubby is crazy. Not my in-laws.
My husband could write a novel about his in-laws, though.