I'm LUCKY. My Mother in law includes me in Mothers' Day. I never had real children...but we have pets. She is still kind enough to include me. My parents, too. I think it's SO kind,

I hate always having to be in the middle of my mother and mother in law! My mom can't get over her jealousy that MIL is retired and can spend more time with me and my two sons (SAHM here). I hate calculating who has spent what time with who to make it fair, making sure each person gets the appropriate combination of making food and helping with the kids on holidays, gifts are equally fawned over and out in the house. Just get over it! I love my mom more than anything, but she's driving me nuts. I have told my mom all of this many times, but her insecurity prevents her from letting it sink in.

I really hate my mother in law

It must be said - my mother in law is one out of her mind crazy bitch.

I grew up being bullied. I know a bully when I see one, dear Mother In Law! I didn't put up with it back then, and I'm not going to put up with it now.

I made arrangements to go to a week-long spa/hotel thing. I have wanted to do this for years. I saved my money. DH can manage the kids. I am going alone and will be sleeping in, eating healthy meals, doing yoga and saunas and getting massages for a WEEK solid. I am in heaven. So excited. Of course my mother in law is appalled that I am 'leaving my family' to do something so selfish. After fifteen years of mothering I think I can do this without a smidge of guilt.

My mother in law has major boundary issues. Major. Today my dh addressed them with her (in a reasonable way), and she got SO angry. This made ME angry because 1- she was the one in the wrong and 2- it's so manipulative! -- like "let me do whatever i want or I'll be mad at you". I feel bad for dh because he was upset after. I don't know how to deal with it.. I tried to bring it up with her in a nice way last week, and she seemed really receptive and we had a nice conversation.. but then she did the exact thing we talked about AGAIN the next day.. inspiring my dh to bring it up more firmly.. bla

I have so many issues with my idiot mother in law I want my husband to atleast acknowledge. He wont. Hooray for things not getting fixed.

Oh. My. God. I am a clean person, keep a neat house, etc. My mother in law gave us a dresser. Turns out she had German roaches. So now WE have German roaches. Been trying really hard to get rid of them. I took apart my daughters car seat, as I do once a week to wash the cushion. She had peed through her diaper so I pulled off the styrofoam so I could scrub it all, and what do I find? Roaches. Excuse me while I puke and cry and plot to drop an atomic bomb on my (and MIL's) house. I know it's not really my fault, but I feel like the worst mother ever.

i have to play the caring Sil to my sil but i silently laughing. she has a slight cold and cant manage her three year old son and almost one year old son.. suck it up and deal with it. I manage my six year old and three year without help from my husband ( her brother in law) and our mother in law. her husband works from home when she is slightly sick. mine does not even notice if i am sick. i just deal with it with out help from him. she use to laugh because she thought staying at home with kids was easy.