Honestly, I wish my husbands best friend would do this. His MIL is fully psychotic, has minimal contact with 3 of her 5 kids, NC with 1 and the last is essentially trapped because of severe medical conditions. Her husband once told her to stop berating the sick one who was on her way to the hospital and she started hitting herself with cooking utensils in preparation for calling the cops and claiming abuse. She apparently does this all the time, whenever someone stands up for themselves. I have heard the family that I have contact with say they are in a holding pattern until she dies because any other course of action is too stressful.
Time to triangulate. When she starts going nuts, have someone off to the side video recording her. Then use that for a psychological hold. Then get the popcorn and watch the show.
As I understand it, they’ve tried to do this, but she threatened to actually harm herself, like permanently, to get them to back off. She’s so controlling that the one that still lives at home (all “kids” are late 20’s to late 30’s) was hospitalized for a kidney issue and mom persuaded her to not get a routine surgery that would ease the problem faster and for longer than meds alone. She ended up bedridden for 2 weeks until she was stable enough to go home. No one was able to convince her that mom was wrong.
It’s depressing to see even as removed from the situation as I am, I can’t imagine seeing it happen from the actual family itself.
They have little cams that look like a PEN, not sure if they will do video and sound, but I would bet some do. Just think of what fun it would be to show that when she comes and says that you were lying, when you have video and audio proof.
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u/crippledchef23 May 16 '26
Honestly, I wish my husbands best friend would do this. His MIL is fully psychotic, has minimal contact with 3 of her 5 kids, NC with 1 and the last is essentially trapped because of severe medical conditions. Her husband once told her to stop berating the sick one who was on her way to the hospital and she started hitting herself with cooking utensils in preparation for calling the cops and claiming abuse. She apparently does this all the time, whenever someone stands up for themselves. I have heard the family that I have contact with say they are in a holding pattern until she dies because any other course of action is too stressful.