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Post by Argh on Mar 5, 2012 20:08:35 GMT
Why do are husbands mum have to be head cases!!!!
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Post by 09rebel99 on Mar 5, 2012 20:19:52 GMT
Lol! My partners mum is driving me mental at the moment! She just doesnt stop going on and on!!!
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Post by michelle28 on Mar 5, 2012 20:23:57 GMT
Arrrggghh!! I think I have the worse one ever!
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Post by Argh on Mar 5, 2012 21:08:53 GMT
O no mine is something else........
My hubby always said she was childish but I've never really seen it until now!
Gone absolutely mental because I binned some toys that her druggie son bought my daughter! They quite literally stunk of poo! If you took the to a charity shop I think they would give them you back!
Bloody nutter
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Post by nia2311 on Mar 5, 2012 21:50:58 GMT
I am lucky - mine is generally ok. She just whinges a lot about the fact I haven't yet produced her a Grandchild. I have been with my fella for 8yrs, married almost 3yrs and I have a 9yo son from a previous relationship whom everyone in his family has "adopted." However, she is obsessed with me having a baby NOW, so I have to ignore the constant sniping about that when we visit. Doesn't help fella's younger sister had a baby last year - she is now "beating" me in the Grandchild stakes...... Sigh
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Post by crazyshetlandlady on Mar 6, 2012 8:54:43 GMT
Mine isn't too bad. It's her other half (OHs step dad - although OH Would NEVER call him that!)
But I won't get started else I might never finish... Lol
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Post by rhosyn on Mar 6, 2012 9:05:40 GMT
Ditto Jade - I'm going to refrain from joining in on this thread lol
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Post by sarahp on Mar 6, 2012 9:13:04 GMT
Well mine is absolutely lovely and always has been - and we've been married for 40 years and she's now 94 yo. I try to emulate her with my daughter-in-law in turn.
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Post by fanfarefan on Mar 6, 2012 20:39:59 GMT
i unfortunately never met my mother in law , and my father inlaw past away several years ago ,but OH always refers to my mother as THE DRAGON and occasionally forgets that she can here him when she phones , and calls me , the old dragons on the phone , ---fortunately she can take a joke lol
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Post by hatman on Mar 6, 2012 22:10:50 GMT
My out laws have been away for 6 months but they are due back next month OH JOY!!!!!!!!!
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Post by crazyshetlandlady on Mar 7, 2012 8:52:30 GMT
On the other hand.. My OH and my mum get on like a house on fire  |
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Post by ladywell on Mar 7, 2012 16:03:21 GMT
I am so lucky - my mum in law is lovely and always has been. She is 90 now! |
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Post by alisony on Mar 7, 2012 18:37:41 GMT
My in laws live in Australia!! I'll say no more!!
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Post by auntiebarb on Mar 7, 2012 18:50:16 GMT
I have had two daughters in law, both of them hated me in spite of the fact that I left the couples alone to go their own way. When there were monetary problems, OH sorted them out to the tune of many 0000s.
But I am seen as a country bumpkin who doesn't know anything about cleanliness, fashion, style or how to be chic!!!! I am built like a Welsh cob, love every living thing except wasps and slugs and can name every record that ever was a hit in the 1960s or 1970s.
Luckily my dog and my horses adore me and OH is quite fond of me too. You can't have it all I guess, but I cannot explain how much I would have loved a daughter or how much I would love my grandchildren - given the chance.
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Post by BettyBo on Mar 7, 2012 19:16:42 GMT
my mother in law is a pain in the bum BIG TIME every time i go out of the room when she is here she asks my huband for money gives him a sob story we have paid for there oil for the last 3yrs!!!!! they have a caravan & they have had £400 five times now to lay some slabs around it must be a big patio lol
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Post by Argh on Mar 7, 2012 19:31:31 GMT
I have had two daughters in law, both of them hated me in spite of the fact that I left the couples alone to go their own way. When there were monetary problems, OH sorted them out to the tune of many 0000s. But I am seen as a country bumpkin who doesn't know anything about cleanliness, fashion, style or how to be chic!!!! I am built like a Welsh cob, love every living thing except wasps and slugs and can name every record that ever was a hit in the 1960s or 1970s. Luckily my dog and my horses adore me and OH is quite fond of me too. You can't have it all I guess, but I cannot explain how much I would have loved a daughter or how much I would love my grandchildren - given the chance. Will u swap places with my mother in law please ;D ;D |
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Post by mollymalone on Mar 8, 2012 10:19:26 GMT
I always used to say I married my ex husband, not his family; couldn’t stand his family and would do everything I could to not have to visit – they only lived in the next town and I could go over a year without seeing them if I managed to time being ill at Christmas spot on!
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Post by chorro on Mar 8, 2012 10:43:47 GMT
My mother in law hated me from the moment I met her son to the moment I left him (22yrs later) but was entertaining his new girlfriend a couple of weeks after I left. Classy |
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Post by ruftytuftyrider on Mar 8, 2012 13:45:42 GMT
I want you as my mother in law aunty barb!
Mine is a nightmare too and this year I am having to share my birthday celebrations with her as my birthday falls on mother's day.
When you see her she tells you everything at least 5 times in a row, she only ever talks about herself, never asks how anyone else is, how work is or how pony is, turns every conversation back to talking about herself even if you have started talking about something totally opposite and doesn't speak to our daughter at all. She just talks over everyone and does not listen to anything anyone says plus is very demanding - has plenty of money but always wants hubby to go over and fix things even though he is not very DIY orientated and usually it is because she has done something to save money which has caused the problem in the first place.
To be honest I am not bothered about the fact that she isn't interested in me or our pony but it does bother me that she never talks to our daughter who is her only granddaughter. I don't think she is quite as bad with her grandsons (hubby's sisters boys) but I do know that when they stayed over once she hadn't got anything in to give them for breakfast so they just got a drink.
On the bright side she has given us some laughs over the years with the inappropriate presents she buys my mum especially - tea strainer for someone who never drinks hot drinks, liquer chocolate for someone who does not drink, does not like the taste of alcohol and rarely eats chocolates, a magnifying glass bookmark when she knows my mum wears glasses to read and probably the worst of all slug pellets - a gift you would not give your worst enermy.
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Post by quest101 on Mar 8, 2012 16:50:55 GMT
On the other hand.. My OH and my mum get on like a house on fire thats like mine, can't stand his parents tho, sometimes im jealous of how well my OH and parents get on but his parents are just assh*les tho and i can never see us getting on in the same way |
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Post by jeanslater on Mar 8, 2012 17:19:26 GMT
I'm a mother in law and have two grown up sons with families who live 200 miles away, I never get involved, so arent a pain to anyone, but!! my ex partner is a real pain in the butt he just wont go away and leave me alone!!! constant sniping , backbiting, talking about me to anyone who will listen- about what who knows as I havent been with him for over 5 yrs - he needs to get a life as far away from me as soon as poss. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr still we all have our crosses to bear .
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Post by auntiebarb on Mar 8, 2012 17:48:15 GMT
ruftytufty, thanks that is a lovely thought.
I think we need a website for rentagranny or adoptagranny for poor sods like me who want to be a granny and can't. If I had the chance, I would be buying a pony so fast, the poor thing would think it was in a whirlwind. I have a reverie of me leading a pony down miles and miles of tracks with the dog following and a little granddaughter or grandson in the saddle.
Some hope! My grandchildren are the other side of the world.
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Post by viking on Mar 8, 2012 17:52:38 GMT
Auntie barb, I wished you had been my mother in law.
I've had two, and couldn't do right for either of them!
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Post by nia2311 on Mar 8, 2012 18:57:37 GMT
If we have adoptagranny, can we also have sellagranny? My Mum is very well meaning, but awfully interfering. I am sure there is someone out there looking for 24/7 supervision from their mother?!?!
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Post by Karen, garrettponies on Mar 9, 2012 8:57:27 GMT
Nia that just made me laugh............I know my mum was 80 yesterday and as the youngest (42!) I am the one she frets about, I think she would fit me with GPS if she knew what one was!
Don't get me started on my in-laws.........................I would still be here next week.
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Post by ruftytuftyrider on Mar 9, 2012 13:04:37 GMT
Like that idea nia would sell my mother in law at the drop of a hat.
It is a good job my mother is a wonderful grandmother otherwise I would pity my daughter not having what I had - my nan (mum's mum) was wonderful despite us arguing a lot when I was a teenager - mind you my dad's mum hated my mum on site and going to see her was a punishment for me and my dad (my mum used to make him go!).
I think there should be an island in the middle of the ocean where we could send all the miserable people like awful inlaws and grandparents and they could drive each other mad whilst we would all then be surrounded by wonderful loving people.
Also what about a rent a grandchild for the day!
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Post by nia2311 on Mar 9, 2012 15:25:43 GMT
See, my Mum has the best of intentions, I am sure and she doesn't mean to be so suffocating, but really I cannot abide any more interference!! Its little things like, when I have to go into work slightly earlier on occasions for meetings - I make my own arrangements as I see fit to get son to school. If she finds out about it, I get the Spanish Inquisition on the arrangements I have made. If I am going to be home late, the same. She asks "well how is he going to be picked up/dropped off then?" implying I haven't bothered to organise anything.
And I get lectures on house keeping, animal husbandry, fridge arrangement and all manner of other things I am quite happy with in my own home. She stayed for a quick cuppa on Weds evening (having let herself in)- I had shed loads of paperwork to do. She left eventually at 10.30pm and I got no work done at all, despite numerous attempts and gentle hints that I must do some work. I don't want to offend her, but I don't need my life micro managing thank you! Ok, rant over.
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Post by ruftytuftyrider on Mar 9, 2012 19:46:18 GMT
My mum and I are total opposites especially when it comes to being tidy - my mum is soo tidy, nothing out of place whilst I am so untidy which I always say is a rebellion against her being tidy!
Mum used to come round to my house when we were on holiday, give the house a good clean and tidy up - whilst I was quite happy for her to clean as I HATE housework it used to take me weeks to find where she had put things. Things came to a head after one holiday when I couldn't find something important and after a long discussion she promised not to tidy and she has kept to it but does keep saying "I don't know how a daughter of mine can live like that' - you would think we lived in a slum the way she talks rather than just an untidy house!
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Post by auntiebarb on Mar 10, 2012 11:41:27 GMT
ruftytuftyrider, we would get on famously. My house would be a tip if my hubby didn't go around tidying for me, but he doesn't clean, just tidy. My stables are clean, my dog and horses are clean and I have just cleaned out the chickens, so that is enough for today. What dust?  |
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Post by Loopy on Mar 10, 2012 12:09:06 GMT
I want you as a MIL too auntiebarb, no grandchildren on offer at any point, but it would be nice to be wanted and you can buy me a pony if you like  |
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