15+ Mothers-in-law whose favorite sport is making life difficult for their daughters-in-law

The internet is full of stories and reports about relatives. From overly sincere children to parents or grandparents who create unusual situations at family events. And, of course, we can’t forget about the mothers-in-law. If for some they are true friends and great mothers, for others they can be very difficult people to get along with and capable of ruining any family gathering.

We, from awesome.club, we prepared a selection with reports from Internet users who certainly wouldn’t wish their mothers-in-law even on their worst enemies. And not bonus, you can also see that sometimes it is the father-in-law who makes us shiver. Check out!

My sister has an apartment that our parents gave her as a wedding present. Behold, her mother-in-law came with a brilliant proposal: to give the property as a gift for her and my sister to move with the children and her husband to her mother-in-law’s apartment, which is in the middle of nowhere. And if they declined the offer, they would be disinherited. The woman was quite surprised when my sister broke down and “let the dogs go,” giving her ten minutes to pack her things and leave the house. © He*****b / PikabuMy mother-in-law hates the fact that I cook well and that my son and husband won’t eat anything she cooks. She keeps telling them I don’t cook healthy food. According to my mother-in-law, vegetables are not healthy. Believe me, I’m not lying. This woman is a piece! © Anonymous / QuoraMy mother-in-law lives 2000 km from us, and sometimes I drive there alone with my son to spend a few days. In front of me she’s all smiles, but as soon as I’m gone she calls my husband and tells him everything I’ve done and said. And with some exaggerations. She reports everything in detail, what I talked about, with whom and about what, what time she woke up, what she did at home. It pisses me off a lot. © Anita Spahija / Facebook

My mother-in-law made us an “incredible” proposal. My husband and I lived at my mother’s house, so we only paid utility bills. Until one day my mother-in-law came to visit us. She observed everything very well and told us to sell the house because the property was bad. First, the house was not ours to sell. Second, the money from the sale of a “bad” house is not enough to buy a good one. Unless she wanted to pay the rest of the amount. But no, she didn’t want to. And she still had a “better” proposition: sell the house and use the money to pay rent on a rental property. © Galina7138 / PikabuMy mother-in-law befriended and even traveled with my ex-husband’s mistress. When my ex and I tried to work things out between us, she refused to cut ties with her lover. Anyway, our marriage is over. © mamabird1993 / RedditMy son is 1 year and 6 months old. My mother-in-law came to visit him, brought him two tomatoes as a gift and said: “I have no money for gifts. And I have no idea what he likes.” Two days later, she called saying that she had bought clothes for her daughter in a very expensive boutique, that she had spent two salaries, but told her husband a much lower price. I sat there listening to her excited laughter and seeing the two tomatoes she had given to my son, her only grandchild. © Olga Vdovich / Facebook

My mother-in-law made the following proposal: we move into her house, rent our apartment and use the rent money to pay her utility bills. This all shortly after the death of her mother, with whom she lived, and on the same day as the funeral. After my death glare in response, she understood we weren’t going to do that. But even though it’s been a year, she still hasn’t given up hope. © Soul13Catcher / PikabuMy ex-husband’s mother invited us to her house for dinner just before New Years. We got there and there was a surprise: my then-husband’s ex-wife with their son. I’m not against the son’s good relationship with his father and grandmother, but she could have warned, at least she would have prepared me so I wouldn’t have looked so shocked at the time. © Buterbrodik / AdMeMy mother-in-law would always show me pictures of my husband’s ex-girlfriends. I once asked her why she should see them, and she replied that it was so I could take care of myself and always look pretty. The next time we went to visit, I took pictures of my ex-mothers-in-law with me and even some women of the same age. I told her to look at how women her age could look beautiful, you just had to take care of yourself. She never brought up the subject of my husband’s ex-girlfriends again. © Yelena Golovanova / Facebook

I married my husband and we went to live with his grandmother. I took care of her, my mother-in-law didn’t lift a finger to help. When the grandmother passed away, things changed a lot: more money was left over, we renovated, I got pregnant. However, the child was born sick. The treatment was long, demanding a lot of care. The mother-in-law did not help a penny and began to come to visit us often. My husband is the light of her life, and I – an inconvenience. He shouldn’t help with cleaning the house, or even take out the trash, even though our income is the same. Now my husband is unemployed, his mother lives with us and I have to keep everything in order at home. These days my mother-in-law even suggested that we move from our very well renovated and furnished apartment to a rented one. And the money from the rental of the property to give her as a “pension” for life. And she, of course, was going to move in with us. © NextSpring / PikabuWhile I was in the hospital after giving birth to my firstborn, my first husband’s mother told him that when he was ready to go back to her house, she would come and pick him up, all I had to do was call her. Two weeks later she came to pick him up. Life was so much better without him. © Carol Carter / QuoraMy mother-in-law changed my wedding date behind my back. She had a friend who worked at the registry office. There was no wedding after all. Good thing that woman lives more than 1,500 km from me. © Lenux / AdMe

I came home from a doctor’s appointment and my mother-in-law had emptied out my cupboards and kitchen shelves to rearrange them in “a better way”. I put up with her excesses for 20 years, until it all came to an end at Christmas 2002. We had 24 guests for supper and I had a broken arm, but my husband and I did our best to organize everything. As we sat down to eat, she started telling everyone that I didn’t know how to cook in the early days of our marriage and that her son would stop by her house after work for dinner before going home. I couldn’t stand it, I exploded. After that she was no longer welcome in our home. © Lori Wilke / QuoraMy mother-in-law didn’t like me. She really didn’t like it, and all the women she didn’t like, she kicked out of the house. In my case, she just tried to convince me that she shouldn’t marry her son, because he would always be a “filthy fool”. We never got into a fight, my communication with her came down to “smile and wave”. One day, I heard my husband burst out laughing talking to her on the phone. It so happened that my mother-in-law had suggested selling my mother’s apartment and country house and using the money to buy a new property to put in her name, so that it would not be necessary to divide it in the future divorce. She had no doubt that we were going to get divorced. From that moment on, I didn’t care about her anymore. © Melissa / AdMeMy husband bought a snowmobile. Well, I was indignant, we have the mortgage to pay. My mother-in-law just said that men have to have their toys. A while later, I bought myself an overlock sewing machine. I sew and have dreamed of having one for a long time. And she had a good discount. Here’s what my mother-in-law said about it: “What for? Didn’t you have something more useful for the house? Not to mention you have the mortgage!” In response, I asked him what could be more helpful, perhaps buying a second snowmobile? © Lukinishna / Pikabu

My mother-in-law hated me from the moment she laid eyes on me. She told me horrible things, she believed I was with her son for his money. She would open my purse and throw out my expensive lipsticks. She spent ten months with us and the ground floor became “her domain”. Upon arriving home, I would immediately go to my room on the first floor and watch television or read a book until my husband got home. My mother-in-law cooked dinner for him every night, but I couldn’t eat with them. When she went to sleep, we were free to go downstairs and watch TV. Once, she was disgusted that I had the audacity to sit at “her” table in the kitchen to read my e-mails. She threw my glasses at the wall, screamed and even kicked my dog. At that time I left the house and called my husband, saying: “Either she leaves, or I leave”. She returned to Romania three days later. © Megan Stamp / QuoraMy mother-in-law gives my husband the same gifts I do. I bought him cufflinks, she went and bought them too. I gave a coat as a gift, she took it and gave one too. I presented my husband with a glass mug, she went and did the same. It’s like she’s in some weird competition that she didn’t even know she was participating in. I finally stopped telling her what present I was going to get my husband and told him to stop showing my presents to her mother. I also started buying very expensive gifts that I know my mother-in-law cannot afford. © Beautifully_Brown / Reddit Every time we drove out with my mother-in-law, she had to sit in the front seat. I can never sit next to my husband, even when we are eating. When he gets home from work, she serves him a glass of warm milk, saying that his son is very tired. Once, my husband made me hot almond milk in the evening, the next morning my mother-in-law scolded me for making my poor, tired husband work in the kitchen. The other day, I bought him a shirt. My mother-in-law started crying when she saw it, because buying clothes was her “right”. She took the shirt to the store and exchanged it for another one. © Anonymous / Quora

My mother-in-law has been a “piece” so far, the main disappointment came from my father-in-law. My first birth was difficult, I had postpartum depression and the baby cried all the time. On top of all that, I couldn’t breastfeed him after two months. My father-in-law made a fuss, saying that breastfeeding was very important, that I wasn’t trying hard enough, and praised his other daughter-in-law. I couldn’t stand it and asked him how many children he had already breastfed…