When you marry someone you take them for who they are. Their baggage becomes your baggage. Their problems are now yours too. And their crazy birth mum who is yours by law is (unfortunately) now heavily involved in your life. Sometimes you hit the lottery with a mother in law. Sometimes it’s like getting kicked in the testicles by Joe Rogan. In todays blog we have made the decision to document some hilariously unhinged MIL’s for you all to laugh at. Count your lucky stars you have nothing to do with these women. Hopefully with Mother’s Day around the corner, it will make you realise how lucky you are with your own maternal figure. Without further a do, today I bring you MUM THE MANIAC: 10 OUTRAGEOUS MOTHER IN LAW MESSES. Enjoy the read!
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Mum The Maniac: Unwanted Intruder
My mother-in-law once took my husband’s keys to our house and made copies for herself without telling us.
She believes firmly that houses should stay unlocked so family can walk in and out uninvited as they please. My husband and I do not adhere to this so our doors are always locked so my mother-in-law’s reaction was to take my partner’s keys and make copies so she could come and go as she pleased.
She was not happy when we changed the locks.
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Mum The Maniac: A True Believer
My ex-MIL was Ray Ramono’s mother on steroids. She was an expert at complimenting and insulting you in the same sentence, in a way that if I defended myself, I looked like an asshole who was insulting her. My Mother In Law was Catholic and I’m not. She had her priest call her daughter before we were married, to tell her that she would be excommunicated from the Catholic church and burn in hell if I married her. When I learned about it, I called the priest and told him he was going to burn in hell no matter what. So that wasn’t a good start.
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Mum The Maniac: Who’s House Is This?
My now ex husband and I went to the other side of the country for 3 weeks holiday. We left his parents our key so they could feed fish, water plants etc We got back after a long flight and drive home at 2am in the morning. Having been away I just wanted to feel at home and crawl in to my own bed. When we opened the front door I just dropped my lugguge and turned to my partner and said “what the fuck??”
Our loungroom had been totally rearranged. Everything moved around. Then I walked through to the kitchen/dinning room. There was a dinning room table from their house set up that we had repeatedly told her we didn’t want. I was blowing up at this stage. I was so angry. Then I went to our bedroom. It too had been rearranged! I was livid. So here we were at 2am rearranging our whole house back around to how we wanted it. That was not the worst part. I can not stress enough when I say that we went on to find that EVERY SINGLE shelf, cupboard and draw in the house had been gone through and reorganised.
The kitchen, everything in different draws. The bathroom, everything moved around and parts of it painted! Even our draws in the bedroom had been done. My underwear folded and put in a different place. Even our sex toys had been moved. So it took days for me to put everything back. It was so stressful and totally ruined what had been a great holiday. In the coming days neither of us could find anything. I just kept finding more things moved. Our linen closet rearranged. Our laundry done. Garage done. My car had even been cleaned and my glovebox cleaned out. I finally laughed when my partner went to have a pipe and she had even scrubbed his pipe back to shinning new.
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Mum The Maniac: Cat Woman
My mother in law is nice and well meaning but kind of crazy and unstable. She has 15 feral cats that live in her house and hate people so that’s just baseline. When we were planning the wedding she was obsessed with having her pantyhose match the table cloths at the rehearsal. It didn’t matter that I didn’t care what color the tablecloths at the rehearsal were or even if there were table cloths. She just kept asking me what color and I just kept telling her whatever she wanted. Eventually I just passed it off to my wedding planner. I don’t remember what color her pantyhose were at the rehearsal.
She keeps giving me and my husband matching underwear. Like superman boxers and then superman bikinis for me. I have told her to please not give me underwear anymore but she just keeps doing it, I haven’t even told her they are the wrong size because I never wear them. I just think it’s really weird she insists on giving me underpants multiple times a year against my wishes.
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Mum The Maniac: Wedding Wreckers
My Mother In Law disapproved of me marrying her son (he was 32 at the time). She and my FIL wanted to help us financially with the wedding but wanted to have their input on it.
We wanted to get married in South Carolina so that some of my friends could come and also because we had a cool locale in mind for the ceremony. She said no, because didn’t want her son to be seen in society marrying me. Should be noted that she is not one of those people in high society. So instead we got married in Michigan and had none of my friends in attendance.
She was going to do the cake. She planned the three tier type of cake, Lemon. I said no, nobody likes your lemon cakes. We wanted chocolate cupcakes. She just about lost it at that one. She had a temper tantrum and so we “fired” her from the wedding planning. We had chocolate cupcakes and they were beautiful. She said she didn’t think cupcakes could be beautiful.
Didn’t like the dress. Fortunately she didn’t have to pay for it or wear it.
Probably disapproved of the flowers. I don’t remember.
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Mum The Maniac: The Reappearing Appendix
I caught my mother-in-law in a major lie. My fiancé and I have been together for eight years and I have always felt that she doesn’t like me.
Back in May of 2020, he had a plan to propose to me, which involved taking a trip. He had told his mother of his plan, and the day before we were supposed to leave for our trip, she suddenly came down with appendicitis. We obviously cancelled our trip. She had surgery to have her appendix taken out and my partner picked her up from the hospital and took her home. Since it was Covid, no one could be in the hospital with her.
I found out her lie because I worked at a doctor’s office, which she attended. Well, the emergency room faxed over the report from her hospital stay. When I handed the report to the doctor, I told him that she’d had her appendix taken out. Ten minutes later he called me into his office and corrected me. He told me that the report said she had gone to the hospital for back pain, and that there was no surgery. I kept this to myself because I didn’t want to upset my fiancé.
Then the other night, she called with major stomach pains and cramps, so we took her to the ER, and low and behold, she had appendicitis! I asked the doctor if the appendix can grow back because she had her appendix taken out in May of 2020. Her face turned white, and my fiancé had to walk out of the room.
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Mum The Maniac: The Worst Of The Worst
I am happily married now, however my mother-in-law is a whole other story. After our wedding, my father-in-law’s health declined and he went into a coma. My husband and I paid 100% of his parents’ expenses from the U.S. by working three jobs each.
But my mother-in-law lied about the cost — she told us that her husband needed certain meds and would ask us to send more money. She would then use the money to fund local trips that she hid from us.
She ordered a new TV, microwave, fridge and phone. When we visited India and asked her about the new items, she would tell us she got them in an exchange offer or that she’d sold her jewelry to buy them. My naive husband believed her. Meanwhile, my father-in-law was no longer in coma but was paralyzed from the chest down. When our kid was born, my mother-in-law insisted that we visit India so her husband could see his grandchild.
He had a heart attack and his health worsened. My husband was the only one paying the bills at this point so we had to go back to the U.S., but my mother-in-law asked him to let me stay for mental support.
When I finally came home, I discovered that she’d stolen money from my bank account in India. She was having an affair and spending the money on her boyfriend. My father-in-law passed away and she came to stay with us in the U.S. for a few weeks, at which point I finally broke down and told my husband everything.
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Mum The Maniac: TMI
My mother-in-law got upset that I wouldn’t tell her which sex position her granddaughter was conceived in.
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Mum The Maniac: The Family + The Bride
After I married her son, my MIL posted a bunch of my wedding pictures with nasty comments. Things like, “the cake, which no one ate,” “the whole family, plus the bride,” “this is the only picture of the original six” (her and her kids). She posted all of it publicly on Facebook.
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Mum The Maniac: The Narcissist
“My former mother-in-law was, when we all first met, incredibly narcissistic, the night of our rehearsal dinner, she stood up and said that she wanted to say something. We all assumed she was making a toast. What she actually wanted to do was tell us all that on the Wednesday following our wedding she was getting married. None of us knew she was even dating anyone. Then, at our wedding the next day, she wore her wedding dress—a white mini-skirt suit. Several of the wedding pictures are somewhat confusing if one didn’t know all of the parties involved.”
If you’ve watched many sitcoms, you’re familiar with the stereotype of the evil mother-in-law. For the most part, that’s a sexist myth—talk to happily married people, and they’ll probably tell you that they love all of their in-laws. Of course, there are in-law horror stories, and people love to tell them. We hope here we’ve been able to show you an insight into the craziest of the crazy when it comes to your partners Mothers. Just know that if you are suffering from a similar nightmare, at least now you know you’re not alone. If you want to read more mad stories on MIL’s then please click here. If you want to buy the t-shirt that inspired this blog then please click here. Thankyou for reading our blog this week, enjoy mothers day and see you next time!
