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my mother in law is 56 and she keeps giving birth because it makes her feel young.she has had 2 miscarriages and 1 still born and waht worries me is she has her other kids convinced she talks to her dead baby,she says he comes to her at night to talk and if she forgets her babys birthday he gets upset.i know losing a child is hard butshe puts everyone down and doesnt give a damn about the kids that are alive.ive heard for the last 14 years how i am ugly,fat and stupid from this woman

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my mother in law is completeley nuts,she has verbally abused me since we met 14 years ago but i have moved 6 years agofar away,not even her son wants to see her.She tells me im ugly,stupid,teases my kids(yes they are her sons kids),she makes me feel so low and when her own daugther ran away and wanted to stay with me she yelled at me for not kicking her out but it was either me or shed rather live on the streets so idid what was right by her daughter.on my wedding day her other son(not my husband)kept telling me how ugly i look and she agreed of course,i felt so ugly and alone that day that was supposed to be special.i stuck by through all this because my husbands goood to me.she belittled me through my pregnancies to and when i gave birth my husband had to leave because her stupid husband kept hassling him to pick something up for them in town so my husband just barely made it back for the birth.

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My home is my safe place to go, where I get privacy and can relax and be comfortable. It is where I get to surround myself with all of the things that I love and kick my feet up.

In-laws, it is not your home. It is not a place for you to just show up unannounced and take over. This is not a place to shove your opinions off on me and critique the way it is decorated and tell me what you would prefer instead. It is not the place for you to demand things and ask me to leave a room to give you privacy.

So go away, and stay away. I will defend the sanctity of my home against you at all costs, and my front door is closed and locked to you.

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My in laws have made my life hell and I am tired of it. I think I AM a good person in all ways and yet they treat me like I AM the devils daughter. This has been ongoing for the past 9 years but it has reached its peak this year and guess what it is my abusive husbands fault!! This year my husband has gone completly down hill, his father passed and he developed a severe alcohol and abuse problem-all interelated. Well he beat me up last July the first time and no one knew but the police. Well in December he tried to kill me by dragging me down the street with a car and I obviously had him arrested. Well since then my in laws have made my life hell! They blame me!! Can you imagine like I chose to be permanently damaged and be a single mother. These people are idiots! I know that's their son/brother but come on now what happened to acknowledging faults and dealing with them. My husband does not help because he is obviously a fruit cake. It just sucks. Oh did I mention that I helped pay a significant portion of my FILs funeral just months before? Oh did I mention that after the funeral I helped the my MIL get all her stuff together and settle the estate?? I have been more then nice. I have been more then a good daughter in law! Yet not only AM I being abused by my husband but now his family. Tomorrow is my husbands nieces birthday and I was not invited. Yet every year, even when my husband was working I would go! I have been more times then he has!! The sad part is I was depending on these losers to be my family because I do not have one. I was severely abused as a child- yes another shocking statement an abused child becoming an abused adult. I am so tired of it. I am so much better then this and I know it. I just moved to one of the most affluent communities in the country, I just got into one of the top managment masters programs in the world, I own a investment company, and I have two fantastic children. My in laws live in the projects, my husband makes 10$ an hour now!! These people do not even compare to me. Its like comparing apples and pineapples. They live off of government programs, while I have busted my butt for better. Yet I am the one talked about. I am the one that's treated like a loser! Well I am not a loser you guys are All losers! I escaped abuse at 14 and have made it further then your whole loser family combined. I will do it again. As a child I knew education was my out and I will do it again. Just remember I may be hurt now, but it will not last. That's just the low self esteem abuse causes. But I have one thing your whole family does not have-brains!! I just need to cut all of you off. I am sooo much better then your family. You know it, I know it, so do me a fave and go away!

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So the idiot (aka BIL's wife), who is nine months pregnant, is going to go to the hospital tomorrow to have her labor induced. I heard that when your labor is induced, it is more intense and rougher than when labor occurs spontaneously. Good! She and BIL are hateful and selfish opportunists who have no problem using people and then throwing them away like Kleenex. I hope she has the labor and delivery from hell! You know--the kind where the epidural doesn't work! It will serve her right!

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I certainly don’t mean to bring politics here, because I know this is not the appropriate forum, so please bear with me for a moment… but the other night my wife and I watched the Presidential Faith & Politics Forum with Pastor Rick Warren. Pastor Warren asked Sen. Obama, “Does evil exist in this world, and if so, should we ignore it, negotiate with it, contain it, or defeat it?” And Obama answered, “Evil does exist. We see evil all the time. We see evil in Darfur, we see evil sadly on the streets of our cities, and we see evil IN PARENTS WHO VICIOUSLY ABUSE THEIR CHILDREN… [my emphasis]” Much to my surprise, when he said that, my wife tossed me a look. I seriously doubt that she was thinking of my parents, because while my parents are far from perfect (God knows my wife could write a few ‘I hate my in-laws’ posts of her own), they sure as hell weren’t abusive. I only found out what real abuse was after getting married.

The evil jerkoff used to tell his oldest daughter (now my wife) when she was little, 3 or 4 years old, that she had cow dung for brains. Can you even begin to imagine what that does to a kid’s self-esteem? He would try to teach her things like multiplication tables, and if she had to think about it for even a second, he would start screaming the cow dung insults at her and demand that she regurgitate it right away. You can’t tell me that kind of crap didn’t do some severe psychological damage to her. I’ve seen her go from being calm to bouncing off the walls in panic and frustration in a split second, upon running into something she didn’t understand, instead of just trying to learn it or think about it or figure it out. She failed a few exams in college because whenever she ran into a problem that required a little thinking, she would just fly into a panic and blow that problem and every problem thereafter! Whenever she runs into a problem, instead of just working on the problem, it’s practically second nature for her to just start analyzing whether or not she is capable of solving it!

Even though I say most of this in the present tense, my wife is now thankfully starting to get over all those old nasty mental habits from childhood that kept her under the jackass’s control, now that she is in her early 30’s. But not without a lot of suffering and heartbreak for both of us. I could never bear to see her say such mean shit to herself. Sometimes when getting stuck on some homework, she’d say to herself, “You can’t even do this much?!” And it sounds even more insulting in my wife’s language than it does in English. If you think about it, she was telling herself subconsciously that she’s a dumbass. When I told her how it made me feel to hear her say that to herself, she stopped saying it out loud in front of me, at least. I don’t know if she still thinks it, and I’m afraid to ask. I hope not, because it hurts to see or hear someone you love abuse himself or herself. She was so well-trained, her father didn’t even need to be around anymore to trash her. She would just do it to herself without even thinking.

He would physically and verbally, and yes VICIOUSLY, abuse both his wife (my MIL) and his daughter. He would scream, shout, and hit, and call them names. He would completely dehumanize them by trying to control everything they even looked at and reducing them to one-dimensional creatures who had a single, shameful, dirty motive for literally everything they did in life. Usually that motive was lust or desire to look at or screw guys. If my wife dared do or say something that he didn’t teach her, not an academic thing but a simple thing like an expression or breaking a roll of quarters on the edge of a surface, he’d jump on her ass and demand, “Where did you learn that???” This was abusive on two levels, first, the constant accusation that she was a dirty sick slut always craving guys, and second, the implication that she’s too much of a dumbass to figure anything out on her own, that she always has to be taught by somebody.

He would scream and shout at my wife if she even so much as glimpsed a member of the opposite sex for a millisecond. He would also scream and shout at her if a guy looked at her, accusing her of doing something to get his attention. And yet, this stinking hypocrite likes Dolly Parton (think about it: why do men like Dolly Parton?) and has a collection of Playboy magazines.

And the dumbass doesn’t even know the difference between a popped balloon and a used condom. He found a piece of a broken balloon in their yard one day, so he goes out and buys a bunch of boxes of condoms to give to my then-future wife as a way of insulting her, and then cusses her out for screwing some guy! Every time I hear one of these kinds of stories from my wife, it makes me want to pound the fucking wall in. How can a man who really loves his daughter treat her this way?

This jive-ass apparently has a stunted imagination as well, thinking everything a fiction author writes must be based on personal experience somehow and that things can’t just be made up. He would scream at his daughter if she wrote a poem, demanding to know if she was in love with somebody. He would read a short story written by his wife, my MIL, and start asking angrily (about a character in the story), “Is this your boyfriend? Is this your boyfriend?” Yeah, dumbass, that’s her boyfriend. Nothing gets past you, Sherlock. And yes, Stephen King really did meet Pennywise the Clown as a child.

And as far as the way I found out firsthand what abuse really was: my wife internalized all this behavior and turned it on me when we got married. During our first years together, she approached her marriage in exactly the same way. She would say and do to me all those things her father had done to her. I have already gone into that in other posts and this is already long enough so I’ll spare you. But I’ll just say that I always forgave her when she hurt me, and I know where all this crap really came from.

Somebody here once said that her father-in-law forced so much stupid advice on her husband that he didn’t even know which way was up. That’s a perfect way of putting it with my father-in-law as well. My wife had to do her undergraduate studies twice because he first time my father-in-law fucked her up by forcing her to major in computer science, which she hated and didn’t feel like she was good at. He set her up for a massive career failure. But she lived with the asshole at the time and was afraid that if she did something rebellious like changing her own major that not only would he scream at her and emotionally abuse her, he would even hit her or kick her out of the house at a time when she was financially dependent on her parents. Then after failing at that and dropping out, she tried nursing for about ten months, to satisfy her father’s desire for her to go into medicine. She thought it might be a stepping stone to becoming a doctor. She took out student loans totaling about $15,000 to do this. That was about five years ago. Then she found out that she hated that as well, and words don’t even exist to describe the frustration and unhappiness she was feeling at the time. That’s when she started learning to follow her heart instead of trying to stroke the Fuhrer’s ego. She was in school full time until now to get a degree in political science, a choice that was finally all her own decision. And now that she’s graduated, those old nursing student loans have come out of deferment, and with interest, we now owe $30,000!!! Can you believe that?! We’re stuck with this debt just because my wife wanted to make the asshole happy? We’re not by any means rich and have no room at all in our budget for this, so we’re forced to ask for forbearance, and by the time it comes out of forbearance, it will be even higher. She can’t even bear to think about it these days, it makes her so mad. It makes me mad, too, but I don’t want to show it in front of her, because I don’t want to make her feel worse about it than she already does. And do you think this cockroach will ever pay us so much as a dime of that $30,000+, or compensate us in any way for all the suffering we’ve both been through because of him? Yeah, right, when monkeys fly out of horses’ asses.

Now my wife has just graduated and taken a job with a big international finance company. Yes, it’s mostly commission-based but they tell her she has the potential to make up to $300,000 a year and that in fact one of their employees once made a million. My wife swears up and down that if she makes that much her parents will never see so much as a dime from her. So I don’t even have to argue with her on that issue. :) I would argue not out of selfishness but because I’d rather see her do things in her own best interests for a change, rather than her parents’ best interests. Other than the grief it would cause my wife (because they are still her parents and have the undeserved daughter’s love), I wouldn’t give a shit if they dropped dead this instant. My wife’s success in this life will be in spite of her evil asshole of a father, certainly not because of him. I am really proud of her for finding success on her own terms, and for starting to get the hell away from all this shit so it becomes nothing more than a part of the distant past for her.

My wife thinks her mother is evil as well, and yes, my MIL did her share of crappy things to my wife. I could go into those things, but this post is already very long as it is. Maybe her ill feelings are for both of her parents equally but I have far more hard feelings towards my father-in-law. I will never forgive that asshole for what I’ve endured in the past seven years, and for what my wife has endured all her life up until now.

And the big jerkoff recently sent an email to my wife saying, “Why doesn’t [insert my name here] stay in touch with me?” Yeah, right, I have better things to do, like dangling my manhood in front of a starving alligator.

I'm really sorry this has been so long. But as far as I’m concerned, the jackass has only done two good things in his entire life: 1) making my MIL pregnant with the girl who would become my wife; and 2) bringing my then-future wife here to the States, where she would come into my life, and get a chance to get the hell away from the Fourth Reich and the reincarnation of Hitler. Other than those two things, he’s been a worthless, evil, abusive scumbag for his whole disgusting life. He is nothing but a cockroach to me and that's how it will always be.

But, never mind what *I* think of my father-in-law. It’s enough for me to know that my wife and Barack Obama think he’s evil, too.


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Dearest SIL,
I hope you read this. I'm sick and tired of you playing the "victim" all the time. You have everyone believing your lies. Well, NOT ANYMORE! Not since you met me. That must be why you don't like me. I've never been anything but nice to you until you started insulting me and my husband, my child, and my mom. I can't believe the way you treat your own family. But now..they see you as you truly are. A skank whore who is good for nothing except using people and making babies. Did you really think you could lie forever? You were so jealous when I got pregnant that it was pathetic! You had two kids and one abortion. I'm sure that was more than enough to deal with.
I hope you are happy that we are out of your life, because we are ecstatic! Every holiday that comes around that I know I don't have to listen to you bitch and complain about something makes me so happy. Now I no longer have to put up with you or your two brats. Oh, and your mom...she knows the whole story and she knows how you lie about everything. Don't expect her to feel sorry for you anymore. Hahahahaha...you ought to hear the way she talks about you now. I love it. So, happy birthday, thanksgiving, merry christmas and happy new year. I'm so THANKFUL to be rid of you! Now I can live in peace with my family.
So, stop telling everyone who'll listen that I broke the family up and you keep trying to make things better. Let the past be the past. You know what you did, you know you screwed up. LEAVE US ALONE!!!!!

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I went through this for 20 years. I finally sat MIL down and told her I'm number ONE and she is not even #2 - our kids are. Son #2 is on crack and son #1 (my man) does not see what she put me through for years. Selective blindness I guess. I persevered and now he is better and she PRETENDS that she minds her own business. She can't help it...she just has to find a way to know and ask questions which are none of her business. FIL is a baby and lets her get away with murder and run him... in the name of loving her family I guess; she's a control freak. I can't waste energy hating them anymore - that makes me older and she already has a hard enough time dealing with getting older. Did I mention she is worse than vain? ...if there is such a thing. Don't give these IL's that much power. Take your peace and support where you can get it. Most of the time it's a MIL who can't let go of the son and regrets that she didn't breastfeed or stopped too early - like the age of 5. I told my daughter to marry a man who has his mother living in another state or dead. Don't hate - it makes you age faster and the wrong way.

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well the shore vacation is upon us. It will be raining all week hahaha. sil stopped coming down to the shore because of this. well guesss what it IS RAINING ALL WEEK. You were like suprise we are coming down too, and look the same week.oh joy. you are sooooealous that your mom andi have worked out the issues you created. mom was suppose to be with me to help with her grandkids too. you know her other grandchildren not your children which she always have because you have to work all the time or cant handle them cause hubby is not home. yeah i raise my kids. And you know what i was actually looking forward to having her to myself no spiteful interferience with you.shes not too bad she has her own issues but we discovered we kind of come from the same background. hows that. so anytime you try to sabbatoge us i stop you. i am not afraid to speak my mind anymore. i will tell them hey i never did that or said that. and you know what my credability is good. so enjoy your wet week, i like the cloudy weather there it makes for awesome pics. hahahahahaha loser sil.

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Since I cut you off. It was the best thing ever! I don't miss you at all! Mom still tries to bring you up, but I shut her down. She had better be careful, she is next.
I stopped listening to those people that used to tell me that even if you hate someone and they cause you pain, you still have to let them in your life because they are your family. Well boo to you. I have my real family now. They don't even know you. They know of you, but only because I use you as an example of how not to act. You are a joke to us!

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