Irritating/rude things your P-I-L have said to you

F-I-L " do you really need to get married? Why not just live together instead? You will end up getting divorced most likely anyway."

I've never met or spoken to mine but she did beg OH to end our engagement once because "she wants to be able to have a relationship with her future grandchildren", even though she's the one who has always had a problem with me and has never wanted to meet me.

M-I-L: Well I'm glad you're getting married on that date, it means we won't have to change our plans for our holiday

Me: Have you booked the holiday yet?

M-I-L: Err no, but this is when we are planning on booking it

Ooooohhhh where to start!! The most recent was muttering to H but within earshot of me that "she" (meaning me) should be cleaning the bathroom, not him. Never mind the fact that I was 8 months pregnant at the time, suffering constant dizzy spells alongside agonising hip pain from the then-undiagnosed arthritis. Most days I couldn't get off the sofa, never mind scrub the bloody bathroom.

THEN there was bringing up H's arrangement to work from home a couple of days a week so he could help me out with the kids, saying that I was jeopardising his job and she wouldn't tolerate it. This was at my baby shower, in front of several of my friends who were mortified and furious that she'd ruined the atmosphere and made everyone feel so awkward.

She refused to believe for a year that H was the father of our daughter and sat with me picking out all the features she thought didn't resemble him.

Referred to me as "that silly woman" numerous times.

When we mentioned considering TTC for a fourth baby, she retorted "why would you want a fourth when you can't cope with the three that you have already?".

She told me I was selfish for going to work. She also told me I was lazy for not having a job in the gap between me leaving university and starting work.

I've lost track of much of it. Thankfully the vast majority of this stuff is well and truly in the past and we get on well these days. We've reached an understanding now and life is much nicer. But there is still a huge part of me that bristles about all of the above (and more) and can't imagine ever entirely forgiving it.

A family member made a comment that they thought I was pregnant as I'd been off work for a while.

Mil: well you have put a bit of weight on.

H: she's lost weight actually

Mil: really?! *far too shocked sounding*

Sorry but you try going from an on your feet for eight hours job to sitting in the house for seven months!! I only put on about 4 or 5lbs the whole time!!

FMIL: So now that you're engaged, are you going on a diet?!!

MIL (on seeing the two-seater sweetheart table at our wedding reception)

"Am I on the top table?"

? Did she think it was going to be just her and Mr AC?!

Yes. I think she did! Or at least hoped so.

MIL, FIL, H and myself sat in the car discussing the impending wedding. I think the conversation was about us having given notice earlier in the week.

MIL: There should be a form that parents have to sign to let their kids get married. And I wouldn't sign it. You're (H) too young. You'll always be MY baby. I would not sign it so you couldn't get married. My baby! *has tears in her eyes*

I'm sure she meant it endearingly somehow. H just squeezed my knee as if to say, 'Just breathe...'

You didn't have to be restrained?? WOW Ducky...impressed at your self control!

MIL on the phone to H 2 months before the wedding.

MIL - It's not to late you know

H - For what

MIL to start again

H - To start what again

MIL - To start again and find someone new who will have grandchildren for me.

H - I dont want to start again thats why whe are getting married

MIL I will support you when you leave her

H I AM NOT F*CKING LEAVING HER I AM MARRYING HER

MIL Just so you know you dont have to, you are young and handsome

H (Hangs up)

She sounds lovely cookie!! Why was she so insistent for him to leave? Was she at the wedding?

I was driving! I think if I was sat next to her on the back seat I may have reacted slightly differently.

H stepped in and asked how old PILs were when they married. They were younger than us. MIL shut up after that. I carried on 'just breathing...'

Haha, I have had my OH squeeze my leg and shoot me the "just breathe" look too many times with my own mother! Her complaints are usually some variation of "this wasn't how we did it when I got married" (in 1982...)

I've never met mine.

They didn't agree with H and me "dating", as he was still married to his ex when we started seeing each other. They refered to me as his "friend".

They don't know we're married, or that we have a child. H hasn't seen or spoken to them for almost 2 years.

I get things all the time, MIL is generally pretty blunt and rude to everyone. I have to keep her away from my friends as she is very bitter and twisted and had reduced one of them to tears on more than one occasion with her opinions on their parenting skills !!

She says things to me like 'have you always struggled with your weight' and in the run up to the wedding constantly asked H if he wanted to change his mind !

I wouldn't mind but she is no skinny minny herself and has been married 3 times !!!

My MIL thankfully lives abroad - couldn't cope with her if she was nearer!

H's younger sister is shorter (she's 5'2 to my 5'8) and thinner than I am (size 8 to my size 14) and MIL kept dropping that into conversations before the wedding - like I emailed her pics of my dress and she replied something like "oh, yes - S could carry that off no problem as she's slim, but you have hips".

She also used to refer to me as "that silly girl".

She kicked off two weeks before our wedding and tried to turn H's sisters (my BMs) against us so H stopped speaking to her, and said he would never speak to her again if she didn't wind her neck in and shut up about me.

How some of you have not been convicted for murder is beyond me!

My PIL come out with a lot of things that irratate me, most recently they are mostly baby related:

FIL on the first time seeing me more than 6 weeks pregnant "Hello, fatty"

After telling FIL that we're not going down for Xmas, and telling him that no, he won't be coming here (He invited himself):

FIL: Well, I still don't see why you can't make the effort to come down

H: K will be 38-39 weeks pregnant, it's not going to happen

FIL: "We have hospitals here, you know?" ?

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I can't believe some of the horrible things that PILs have said!!! You all have super self control to put up with them, I would definitely not stand for some of those comments!

Never realised how lucky I am to have a lovely MIL and FIL! Don't think H has done too badly with my parents either, although they are a bit crazy sometimes (in a nice way...)

Some of these are terrible, I hope we never turn into a crazy MIL when we have kids!!

Heres a few of my father in laws gems!

(After OH told him he was going to propose) 'Why? It will never last, you will end up unhappy for the rest of your lives, and divorced.'

(when discussing getting married abroad) 'I think your very selfish, why should I have to pay to go abroad for your wedding when I could come to a wedding in the UK for free? I dont want to go abroad I dont like travelling (worked abroad for 25 years!!!!) besides its likely we will be dead by then as the world is going to end in 2012'

I don't speak to the man, as every conversation ends in how the world will end.. he has 60 tins of beans just in case so can survive !!!!!

Ha ha! This made me giggle!

Same! My future P-I-L are wonderful and have really welcomed me into the family. We went to visit them about three days before OH proposed. Hi mum actually dragged him into the kitchen and demanded to know why he hadn't proposed to me yet, not knowing he was planning on doing it very shortly ?

But my goodness, some of the stories here have really made my jaw drop!

I know, I'm shocked that people think it's acceptable to be so rude!

I'm super lucky with my PiL! Rather than the usual "no woman will ever be good enough for my darling boy" thing, MiL seems to think that her two lovely, well-educated, successful sons are a bad influence on their respective wives and thanks us for trying to get them to do the right thing! If we're late to something, she always blames him (tbf it's mostly true) and if we're early, she thanks me for making sure he was organised.