Mother In Laws

[spookyevilone]

I won't have a MIL because SO's mom is dead. His father is one of those guys who likes to joke around and can wind up being offensive without even realizing it, but he's a good guy.

When he heard about the quail, his first reaction was "Oh yum! Fresh eggs for breakfast!" - said in a joking tone of voice.

Imagine his surprise when I actually served him a plate of bitty little fried Coturnix eggs with toast and orange juice.

He looked completely abashed and said he hadn't expected me to really cook my pet's eggs. I laughed and told him to go on and eat. SO gave him a look across the table and said, "Good thing you didn't joke about eating the actual bird, Dad, or you'd have gotten that for brekky."

(He wouldn't have! MY QUAIL! Mine mine mine!)

There haven't been any jokes about eating my pets since then. However, he did like the eggs, so I bring him some every week.
-Spooky

 

[thechickenchick]

Both of my parents pased away before I met my DH. Someone actually thought it was funnyt to say to him. "Hey you are lucky, no in-laws!" Not funny.

My in-laws are alot like my parents. They would have been great friends.

 

[spookyevilone]

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OMG, I had someone say that to me too and I gave them such a nasty glare they shut up really fast. I'd LOVE to have a MiL, because it would mean my SO's mother was still alive!

How horrible. I hope you DID smack them.

-Spooky

 

[ChevygirlBeth]

I kind of get to miss out on having a MIL. DH's mom is still aliive and well, but she has very little involvement in his life. She divorced his dad and pretty much deserted the family when DH was around 12, leaving DH to pretty much raise his siblings (3 younger siblings) as his dad was a truck driver. If it wasn't for DH's grandma, I don't know how they would have managed it.

Soon after we started dating DH's mom moved back to the area (after being out of state for years). We do go see her for a short visit on holidays and DH opted to do the mother-son dance with her at our wedding, but we still have very little contact with her. She doesn't work and doesn't have a car, so we always go to her. DH is pretty reserved around her and has actually said before that my mom has been more of a mother to him than his ever was. While I guess I can be thankful that I don't have the horrible MIL stories some folks have, I hurt for DH that he had to grow up without her.

 

[Brick243]

I lost my mil 9 years ago. She was only 59 years old. She was one of the most caring and loving person I have ever had the honor of knowing. I'm very lucky, my wife took after her mother.

 

[SterlingAcres]

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I'm so far beyond perfect, it hurts

But if you ask my MIL, I'm the devil that ruined her son because he won't take out more loans for her. Too bad, so sad.

 

[cozycritters]

I love my MIL-- we get alone great and, when I wanted chickens and couldn't have them (HOA) she put a pen in her backyard. We butt heads sometimes, but we're close and I've learned to let her know when I know she's full of it

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But she's an amazing woman. She's been through a lot in her life-- including being a single-mom to my DH and his brother for almost ten years.

But the STEPs! The step-father and step-mom of my DH-- they're EVIL! Truly!

My S-FIL went to jail for multiple counts of rape when he was in his twenties and this week he got mad at me because we brought over pizza and I was taking care of my son instead of cleaning up the box, and he told me 'you don't take half as much care of those babies as you think you do' and on and on. Where was he when his one son was a baby???? IN JAIL. (I've never neglected my kids a day in my life. He's a jerk.) He's currently a drug-addict, so it's not a case of 'oh, that was when he was young'.

My S-MIL is manipulative, evil-speaking, and purposely cruel. She has told me that she was surprised my husband married me because I'm homely. I told her about a word that I hate because it meant physical abuse to me when I was younger and she then turned around and started using it with me. We recently cut off ties with her when she started talking about 'finally having a girl in the family' at the birth of a new baby, when DH's brother has a three year old daughter. She did the same thing when my boys were born. What made it bad, it that she sent those messages to my DH's grandparents and our family.

I don't know my FIL well. He ran off with S-MIL when my DH was 12 and they didn't hear from him for six months. In the ten years I've been around I've seen him maybe 5 times. He forgets DHs birthday, and rarely has contact with us at all. Once we vocally told them we were done with S-MIL he has started making an effort. We'll see if it lasts.

But, my MIL??? Love her to pieces!

 

[horsejody]

In regards to my MIL, I'll just keep telling mysef, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."

As for my DIL, she is great!!

I probably drive her crazy, but I like her! And she likes chickens.

 

[Nikki28]

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Sometimes, don't you wish you had thought of it, though? "Sorry, DH, I cannot work or do anything but sit around and eat $50/pound sacred bonbons because my soul will topple from its holy mountaintop. Your job, as the lesser soul on a lower astral plane, is to provide me with bonbons and foot massages." What a racket!

SMIL would say that I am a Fallen Woman who believes that menstruation is caused by Charles Darwin (as opposed to Eve's sin), therefore am darned to heck and poison the whole wide world with my very existence. Now that I think about it, you could interpret that as "evil vibes that contaminate the family," so not all that different from Nikki's.

Hmm come to think of it my problem is probly that I did not think of it first...now it's too late to try. He gave them $3,000 a few months ago because they said they were being sued turns out they just gave it all to their "church of ageless wisdom" how does lying fit in with a pure soul? Actually why do they get $3,000 *thinking of all the chickens I could buy*

Justin's actual mother died 6 years ago and was a wonderful strong woman who accomplished a lot in her life. She still inspires me to this day.

* I should have known it was Charles Darwin all along!!!!

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It all makes sense now.

 

[ridgefire]

The count down begins. They should arrive at my house around noon EST. My wife has been going nuts making sure the house is just so. Doesn't matter though she will find that one cob web that one speck of dust missed and make the comment about it. I came in from snowblowing the 10 feet of snow we got and I tracked snow in the mud room by the door. I almost lost a limb over that one.

So now I guess I have to stripe in the barn and streak across the yard. I might just stay out in the coop with the girls, they know how to treat a man. I knew I should have ran cable out there when I ran power and water.