50 People Share The Craziest Things Their MILs Have Ever Done

My MIL wanted a grandkid so bad from us, she told me I front of FIL and DH (her son) that I should just sleep with FIL because “DH comes from FIL, so they are the same.” I remember telling her that was disgusting and extremely disrespectful to both her husband and mine. I got some peace for the rest of the visit 😌.

When my DH and I first got married, we lived several states away from our families. My JNMIL had not seen us in months, and was there to visit. She looked at my husband and screeched “All your hair is gone!” And then she looked at me and screeched “What did you do to him?!” My gorgeous DH has been losing his hair since he was in his early 20’s, so I’m not sure what the hell she was talking about. We were both so shocked we didn’t know what to say. I couldn’t believe she thought his hair loss was my fault! I have always wished I’d had the nerve to tell her that I’d f****d him so hard, his hair fell out!!!!

She told me she was going to call the Elder Abuse hotline on me because when she popped by unannounced I apparently ‘withheld her grandchildren from her’.

Both of them were at school.

I was getting my hair done a few weeks ago and the only other patron was talking about her MIL to our hairdresser. I could see she was starting to get really upset and was getting close to tears.

I started talking about my MIL, letting her know she was not alone and we somehow ended up in this bizarre yet absolutely hilarious game of naming all the crazy shizzle our MILs have done in the past. By the end we were crying out laughing, it was so liberating!!

We closed with: I see your ’she thoughtfully gifted me postmenopausal face cream even though I am only 40’, and raise you a ’she got sued by the city for cutting off the tops (and only the very very tops) of all the pine trees in her garden - she then demanded I testify that it was my fault because DH spends all his time with me instead of him helping her clean up the needles’.

When you are to be in tears, Better it be from laughing right?

My story is dark- she told me that her husband molesting his step daughter was an accident and no different than a child being a bed wetter. It’s blameless - he went to jail, is on the registry but she opened a daycare so he could still have access to children (daycare is finally closed after making international news).

Mine contacted my husband's command when he was deployed to Afghanistan because he wasn’t calling or emailing her but he called and emailed me. Then she told them I hacked his email and deleted all her emails. She then demanded that she be added to the family readiness group emails so she could find out what was going on and they refused because my husband didn’t list her as a contact. When he finally emailed her to tell her to stop this craziness, she contacted the command again and told them I hacked into my husband’s email and sent that email to her. Haven’t had contact with her since and that was August 2011.

She gifted me with the nightie she wore on her own honeymoon at my bridal shower. In front of all my family and friends, she gave me her 35 year old, used negligee to wear on my honeymoon with her son!!! Grossest and most inappropriate thing I had ever heard of, all wrapped up in white wrapping paper. Her son and I burned it outside later that night all the while shaking our heads at the craziness of it.

My ex MIL told me within a few weeks of our wedding that it was customary to be trained by one’s mother-in-law in order to learn how to be the perfect wife. She knows him best of course, so if I had any hope of being a good wife I should start listening to her wise words. I declined the training. Turned out he was a huge mama’s boy who didn’t even flush the toilet for himself and had to be told to brush his teeth, shower etc. He couldn’t even make toast. She wanted to train me how to be his literal servant. No thanks. 😒.

She tried to pull an emergency baptism when I left my twins with her to pick up SO from his Gpa's funeral.

SO's Jewish and I was raised Catholic but both of us are non-observant. We decided to expose the twins to both religions but to let them decide if they wanted any religion to be part of their lives. She decided to contact a priest from her congregation to force a baptism. It did not happen either due to said priest needing parental approval and/or unavailable.

My latest is that I overheard her telling my husband to figure out what meds I need and sneak them in my food.

In case you’re wondering - she believes I need medication because HE always seems depressed when he’s talking to her.

Thought she was getting the master bedroom suite when we bought our house. Uh no. Busted my a*s to buy a house. Why the f**k would we be giving you the biggest room?

I am Asian American, my husband is white. My MiL, who insists she has not one drop of racism in her body, once told me very proudly about the time she got cutoff by an Asian man in traffic and almost called him a "g**k", but refrained because she has an Asian daughter in law and mixed grandkids, and called him an "alien" instead.

She was really, really proud of herself.

Going on a family vacation and she texted me asking if I was bringing apple juice for my kids (18m and 3y at the time). I said no. And shes like “why, they don’t like it??” And I said no, they don’t drink it, we don’t offer them juice. Why?

And she replies “oh well we start our family vacations with shots of fireball. I was going to RINSE OUT mini fireball bottles and fill them with juice so they could feel included.”

Now look, my husband and I drink - we are not prudes. We have no problem having a beer or whatever in front of our kids. But my MIL wanted to basically teach my toddlers how to do shots and then got offended when I told her that’s not necessary 🙃.

My ex mother in law once told me that even at $7 an hour I could feed myself and 3 children and she wasn’t helping us anymore, when her son was in the throes of a*******n, stealing every penny that I earned he could get his hands on and we were about to have no water or electricity. I couldn’t keep up the payments and still feed everyone… a lot more complicated than that, but I’d have to say it was that.

Or when my ex husbands sister came out as a lesbian she said: “She wants to be a teacher. How in the world is she gonna do that if she’s gay?”

I said: “It’s not 1948? She’ll be fine.”

She wore a see though cream colored dress to my BILs small wedding...

I was like you better not pull that s**t at my wedding..

One year I got a one of those bags they sell at supermarkets and it costs $2. That was it all I got for xmas from them. everyone else got beautiful gifts I was furious.

she drives around the town She lives in but she has no license.

Told me after I had my daughter that I was a disappointment because she wanted a grandson.

got angry when my baby started crying at church for xmas mass so I took her outside to the car , she started yelling at me in the car that I had disrupted her church service and that I was incredibly rude for staying in the car and not going back in to the service when she settled down. Im an atheist and hated going to these services, but went anyway because it’s what she wanted. Well that year was the last time I went to church. I always said no we aren’t coming in regards to me and my daughter. She hates it and complains every year.

I could write a effing novel with all the c**p my MIL has pulled.

Years ago we took in my younger SIL while my MIL was going through a divorce. She showed her true colors when she realized we were actually taking care of SIL emotionally and physically, got her grades up in school and you know, CARED, because that made her look like a bad parent (I mean... Yeah she is, I'm really skimping on the worst but she's unmedicated bipolar and a narcissist, draw the lines yourself) and was clearly a slight against her.

During all this she got a dog, and in the months after my SIL moved back in with her to a new apartment it became clear to her that she treated the dog with more respect than my SIL. Took the dog out all the time, forced my SIL to stay home from plans because she "didn't like leaving the dog in a crate" ever, but it was fine to force social isolation on her kid.
Eventually the entire family called her out on it and she stopped some of the favoritism.

In the middle of that we found a great school opportunity for my SIL that would require her to relocate to our town again, asked SIL if she would actually put in the effort and wanted it and she broke down crying that she wanted to move back in with us. So my husband approached MIL about it and at first she was down but then the next day she left my SIL on the side of the road screaming that she was a b***h for wanting us over her and then texting my husband that since she's the parent HER NEEDS come first. It's been a few years since then, some things have improved, some haven't, SIL turned out okay.

On to this week.

Her dog escaped and was missing for two days. Over those two days she put up post after post online about how the dog was her world and she loved it over anything else in her life and I mean REALLY laying it on thick. More than her kids, more than life itself

It's so validating and frustrating when she says the quiet parts out loud about how little she actually cares about her kids. The dog came back home and she's been spoiling it rotten but not before my SIL read all those posts and now feels like s**t.

God.

Crazy, but not funny. Showed up late for our wedding (actually during the recessional), got into a fistfight with her sister in the church (my mother separated them), then at the reception went around and told everyone we hadn't invited her. It went downhill from there.

When I had my second baby my inlaws came to the hospital about 3 hours after he was born. Didnt bring any gifts but MIL handed me a handwritten recipe for a dish that I could cook for my husband when I get back home. Wtf? Thanks, I guess... (Btw he wouldn't have even liked that dish).

My mil wanted to take a "family trip' with just her kids. We were all married for years at this time with toddlers, babies, houses and you know 'jobs". Yeah, no.