“We have now been married 50 years.”
Anonymous
2.
“Early in my marriage, my in-laws came to visit.
My husband and I slept on a sofa bed in the living room and gave them our room.
Id gotten up one morning to start breakfast.
She looked at me and asked, ‘Jealous?’
as my husband grabbed as much bedding as possible to tuck around him.”
“We’ve now been married 29 years.
It helps that they live far away, and we rarely see them.
Carol, 54, Illinois
3.
“There are two things my ex-husbands family did that were very strange to me right off the bat.
They covered all toilet seats, handles, and faucets with Vaseline.
They filled our entire bedroom with wadded-up old newspaper, covering the floor, bed, and furniture.
Nothing but sheets for the bed.
All sheets were strange patterns, like for kids, withDisneyprints and pictures of pigs.
We had no kids.
I never remember having any conversation like that.
Everyone else got beautiful jewelry and new phones, and we gave everyone expensive, thoughtful gifts.
I took home five sets of kids' sheets.
it stopped as soon as I dumped the ex.”
“I still see them, and it still grosses me out.”
silvercaptain30
5.
“My ex-boyfriend’s dad once told his WHOLE family (extended family, family friends, etc.)
that I was pregnant at a BBQ.
I was really just very hungover and couldn’t keep any food down that day.
Later, he said he had said it as a joke.
Yeah, so funny.”
paleurs
6.
Instead, he had to hear about it secondhand months later.”
gaelicmaiden
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8.
“I got pregnant a few months after having COVID (this was in 2021).
“My fiance passed earlier this year.
We have a two-year-old together.
Friends and family rallied together to raise money for funeral expenses and then for us.
But my mother-in-law assumed the money would go to her and has kept all the ashes.”
“She accused me of manipulating people and harassed my family and me.
Not only has our child lost their father, but now the rest of the family, too.”
pasteltrout84
10.
“My friend is still married to his wife they recently had a baby shower for their first baby.
“Eventually, she was told to stop, or she’d be kicked out.
She spent the rest of the party sulking in a corner and drinking wine.
It’s also not the first problem they’ve had with his in-laws.
My friend’s mother-in-law was told to leave and call ahead if she wanted to visit.
I’m hoping my friend’s wife will be able to stand up to her parents at some point.
“The worst thing my in-laws do is bring up politics.”
“We are polar opposites when it comes to politics.
They can say some pretty offensive things, but they also listen to what I have to say.
They’re just trying to get me to ‘see the light.’
It’s never going to happen.
I feel trapped sometimes in those conversations.
I hate it.”
hiddencake55
12.
“The sister-in-laws behavior was beyond toxic.
She screamed at my then-one-year-old daughter every day for being a one-year-old.
She screamed so much that her son had a seizure during the trip due to the stress she caused.
My daughter cried every night because the sister-in-law treated her so badly.
I havent seen the psycho since, and my life is better for it.”
Anonymous, Eden Prairie, Minnesota
13.
“When my parents got engaged, they went to my dads house to tell his parents.
His dad said to them, ‘Itll never last.’
They just celebrated 31 years.”
hoped407afcd59
14.
“My mother-in-law didnt care for me because I was not as good as my wifes previous boyfriend.
She talked about him all the time.
I let it roll off my back.
She came to our apartment for X-mas (shes divorced).
It was just the three of us.
“I didnt argue.
I just went to another room to cool off.
Happy ending, though.
In a couple of years, we became close.
She had anger issues.”
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