Now I love my parents-in-law, but the dread I have when they come for a weekend is immeasurable. My wife is Italian, hence so are her parents and I thought once the wedding was over I would be "master in my own home" - well at least joint master with the wife . But they are visiting for a long weekend and boy do they criticise, and "suggest", and go on and on and on, and on. Together with the language struggle (neither speak English) I will be half dead by Tuesday. Why is it such a hassle, my own folks are half the trouble.

Share your in-law nightmares to try and explain why only parents-in-law cause trouble.



"Take my mother in law, take my mother in law"

"No, I haven't got anything t'say, just please take my mother in law"

I will have a drink waiting for you on Tuesday evening

my mother in law was a total cow

she had a key to the house and lived only a few doors away

she would let herself in, walk in on me in the bath, get me out of bed on sundays

tut if i was online

generally be a total nightmare

my sister in law told me i wasn't anything special and she didn't understand why her brother was with me

yay for getting divorced

lollyp0p said:

PREDOMINANT said:

sorry not in a good mood with the ex today

i got a great text message though really funny if you have no sense of humour..


best day of my life....
walking down the isle towards my wife, everyone smiling....

vicor says a few nice words...

i gave her a kiss

and then he shut the coffin !!!!

My In-Laws have gotta be some kind of cruel joke that's being played on me...



Leaving aside the fact that they were both ATROCIOUS parents to my wife as she was growing up, they are both pretty shitty with her now.
They seem to love me to bits, which they probably think helps, but it doesn't. My Mother-in-Law has been known to throw people across the room before now (no one important, only HER OWN MOTHER AND HER OWN DAUGHTER...) and I have been warned by...well, everyone EVER to be honest, to avoid getting her in a bad mood.

To put it another way; My brother has let's say a warped sense of humour - he doesn't so much as cross the line of good taste as leave it waaaaay back in the rear view mirror. We knew he was gonna be sat next to my Mother-in-Law-to-be at the wedding, so we quietly took him to one side and threatened him to tone down his one-man comedy show, lest he offend her.


After the wedding, my poor, younger brother came up to me, looking shell-shocked, exhausted, beaten, defeated and ready to cry, and said "THANKS!!! You told ME to be on my best behaviour...you never warned ME about HER!!!"

...and they say you can judge what your woman will be like in later years by looking at the mother.....!
.....




HEEEEELLLLLP!

lollyp0p said:

RocknRollDave said:

i am NOT going to turn into MY mother, its not ALWAYS true

i hope

PREDOMINANT said:

hey it's NOT funny

RocknRollDave said:

oh shit, i forgot about that

I am in-law free at the moment... and I don't want to relive any nightmares...



~Peace be with you...

My man's mother snoops through our mail, instigates fights with anyone present in the house,offers her help then bitches about how burdened she is and is constantly complaining that she has no money(trying to make my man feel sorry for her) all the while going on quarterly vacations and wearing new clothes and jewelery she got from her 25 years older sugar daddy. She is a vile gold digging wench and she keeps playing martyr, saying her kids don't love her (all of them avoid her as much as possible) and that she is going to move back to Puerto Rico. At this point I'd be so happy to see the bitch go that'd I'd stuff her into the cargo hold of the plane myself.
She also bursts into rooms w/o knocking and will wake me up at 10 am to ask me why i'm still asleep on a night i have to work.
The evil part about this is that I work the graveyard shift....I don't start work until midnight.
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AprilMichelle said:

I think your man must be my wife's brother !!!!!

Predominant Said

So...how was your weekend...? Did they push you over the edge and turn a usually balanced person into a deranged, psychotic strangling machine.....or did you just bite your tongue and scream when they had left...?

Tell all - gory details, please

They haven't gone yet!! Long weekend I have their company for 24 more hours yet. It has actually been a great weekend! I can't really fathom what has changed. My father in law baught me a DVD box set of Alien, offered to by me a new printer/scanner AND offered to pay for an extension for the house

I take back all I said, these are the best parents in law ever

Ima dreaming perhaps?

PREDOMINANT said:

You Judas, you're supposed to be on MY side!!!

Just when I thought life was as unfair as it was ever gonna get, ANOTHER kick in the crotch



.....guess you wouldn't be interested in a trade-in...?

PREDOMINANT said:

Bernard Manning!

Cloudbuster said:

...and again I say:

Cloudbuster said:

Each to their own.....Just, whatever you do, GET YOUR BED REINFORCED FIRST!!!

RocknRollDave said:

...or your chandelier, depending on your sexualtechnique

The In-laws are coming







ewww ... freaks me out to think of them having sex let alone comming

Mach said:

...you guys are just trying to get me to puke at work today, aren't you....?





I accidentally walked in on my parents making love once, and I wanted to die...




...If i caught the in-laws doing it, I'd want to kill THEM

PREDOMINANT said:

AWWWW...see...Italian parents are the best!