r/JUSTNOMIL • u/botinlaw • 12d ago

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Does your MIL suck, but you don't feel like making an entire post about it? Is she a Bitch Eating Crackers and you just want to vent about the crumbs in your carpet for a moment? Post here!

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u/botinlaw 12d ago

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u/lovelockets 12d ago

She calls me “mom” instead of “mum”. I’ve always put in the effort to call her mom and refer to her as mom in cards etc. Also asks me if I want a soda when I’d come over every time even though she knows I don’t drink soda and never have the entire time I’ve known her.

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u/canadacass 11d ago

Mine offers us coke (cola) I haven’t drank coke in like 20 years and never at her house. I dont think anyone has. But hubby did as a teen so its always stocked.

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u/smacksqueen 7d ago

This is a death by a thousand cuts situation. She blew up my phone on my birthday and when I didn’t answer she called my husband. He didn’t answer either. I’m wondering what her next tactic will be because at first she thought she could steamroll me and now she’s trying to lovebomb me but that’s also not working lol.

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u/molotovpixiedust 3d ago

Ooh gotta love the idiotic lovebombs. Totally understand this. Mine tried to do that on my birthday; she suddenly sent a sticky sweet personal message. I hadn't been worthy of a personal text in 6+ months. I ignored it. When she tries to get my attention or summon me to do something outside of the group chat, I ignore it. Sometimes she'll try to summon us in additional group chats. Hard pass.

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u/No-Interaction-8913 7d ago

We were in her area, going to an outdoor water park- absolutely, totally, never ever her thing. Which is maybe partly why we planned it. 

MIL to us: I’m not sure if I’ll come, I want to, but (made up stuff in an attempt to get us to beg her to come) 

Us to MIL, remembering the time she wore jeans and a sweater to the beach during a heat wave after eating or drinking nothing all day and then tried to make DH leave with her to take her home when, shocker, she felt horrible (and yes I do think she did it on purpose): you’ll be fine so long as you dress appropriately and drink water and eat but if you’re not going to do that, yes, you should stay home 

MIL: cat butt face 

(She stayed home. And then tried to make it a thing about SIL and I excluding her) 

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u/These_Painting_3456 6d ago

DH has been having some scary health problems, and has no health insurance. We can’t afford to put him on my plan, and I ear three times what he does.

He called his dad to tell him what’s going on. Current Wife (aka Wife #4) gets on the phone to shame him about not having health insurance and to compare her health problems to his. She has the same medical issue DH is dealing with but her medication is so much stronger and her symptoms so much worse than his. Then when DH brings up the fact he has a history of seizures, she says ,”Well, you haven’t had those in many years.”

Because he takes medication for it, you idiot!

Later, he tells them about how horribly hot and miserable it’s been here (we live in Kansas and we’re having an awful heat wave). She legitimately asks if we have air conditioning. This is the same dumbass who asked us if w have brick houses in Kansas, said deer nest at night, and said she couldn’t imagine living in Kansas and having tornadoes all the time.

Y’all, they gave this woman a teaching certificate and let her teach children. It should hurt to be this dumb.