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.

As far as mother in laws go, mine's pretty awesome.

My mother in law made a point of informing me at thanksgiving dinner that "You know, when the kids are out of daycare and in school, you'll STILL have to pick them up if the school nurse calls during the day." Gee, thank you ever so much for that random and incredibly useful tidbit that I'm not brilliant enough to have considered on my own. Eat your pie and shut up.

I just heard that my mother in law called her daughter a liar when she confessed to my MIL that her (the mother's) boyfriend raped her. SHE WAS SIX YEARS OLD. How could you tell your baby she's lying?! I could never look my child in the eye after a confession like that and think they were lying. What kind of a monster is she!?

my mother in law took my 3 year old daughter to a salon and got her hair cut without asking me. I was furious, and tried not to show my daughter. My manipulative MIL was all sweet "it was a fun grammy & granddaughter excursion". The hair is cute, that's not the issue, but I'm furious! My husband thinks I'm overreacting, but I want to kill her. I don't know how to handle this. And I feel like if I don't do something, she will continue to overstep.. and i might actually murder her phony overstepping self.

It is unbelievable to me how many people get divorced these days. I'm heading toward a divorce so I've been thinking about it alot. All my friends but 1 has been divorced, my grandma and grandpa, my sister, my sister in law's, my aunt, my mother in law, the list goes on and on! I just never, ever thought it would happen to me. I really thought I'd be the exception, but no, my DH is cheating on me and leaving me.