I am still working on the answers to the questions the commenters left for me, but today I am going to take a brief break to send some support to a Sister in the Struggle. The struggle with difficult in-laws that is.
I don’t write about MIL so much any more because we have come to the conclusion that it is better for our relationship (with MIL) to avoid her as much as possible.
While this isn’t a comprehensive list of all my In-Law craziness, here are a few of the stories that come to mind when I think of the crazy that is (most of) Mr. A’s family. I have to laugh, otherwise, I don’t think I could stay on speaking terms with MIL.
MIL Makes Me Carry Chinese Food to China
MIL is a Hoarder and also Many Other Kinds of Crazy
MIL Wants Us to Chip In to Buy a Husband for SIL
how could you? how could you make a MIL list and not include IT!
I am saving it for Thanksgiving!!! I deleted the link, because I need that so I don’t have to write something real that day! I could never forget.
I cannot watch the TV show ‘Hoarders’ because it makes me so incredibly sad. But the time I watched a few minutes of it, I thought of you guys and the MIL. I don’t know HOW you held it together to clean out her house, or how Mr. A and the SIL survived. Srly.
Wow. I so feel for you. But (parallel lives again) I have MIL stories that could rival yours. Mine is also crazy except she hasn’t been diagnosed with anything. I just can’t blog about them since AJ reads my blog. Sigh. I need to let it out!!
That was horrible, but I want to hear about this: “*You don’t even want to know why I have had cause to discuss A’s ejaculation potential with MIL. That conversation will haunt me to my deathbed.”
Hahahahaha
Wow, that was a long time ago. I think we had several conversations about Mr. A’s ejaculation similar to the one I eluded to here in the 4th paragraph.
http://american-family.org/2004/05/11/i-survived-511/
Ugh. Now that it is a vague memory, that conversation still creeps me out.
You’re awesome for sharing all of this. I read everything avidly as I can’t believe how some of your stories could slot right into the stories of my former boyfriend’s family and fit right in.
I am amazed you took all that tinned food stuff to China, I would have been tempted to leave it all behind! That was so sweet of you.
I didn’t open the suitcase before I took it to China. If I had opened it, there is no way I would have hauled all that crap all that way.
Haha!! I thought you must seriously have been in the first flush of love to even consider it!
You are the first person who has IL stories to rival mine. I can’t blog mine because too many family members read it, but our crazy includes a MIL who refuses her bipolar meds in favor of Budweiser, a recently deceased FIL who was married five times before embracing his 1/132 Native American heritage and “marrying” his last wife in a traditional, not legal, ceremony, a BIL who has four children with four different women, & a SIL who is committing suicide with bulimic/anorexic behavior. The fun started in DH’s life when his mother discovered from her hospital bed after giving birth to his brother that her husband and best friend were having an affair. They decided to deal with it by entering into a wife-swapping lifestyle for a few years before switching and marrying the other spouse. It went downhill from there.
I just want you to know that I read each one of these this weekend… I spaced them out to help me through the weekend. Only 28 hours to go. And you are now my new best friend. The mail order bride? BwwwaaaHaHaHa! Only tell Mr. A I’m sorry for laughing. But you helped… so much. Our brand of crazy over here doesn’t make such good blog fodder, unfortunately, but oh, lands, it is STILL crazy. Thank you so much. Truly.
One more thing… I forgot to tell you… you definitely win. If there was ever an in-law contest? You would win.