The Worst Monster-In-Law Horror Stories!
Congratulations! You’ve found someone with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Unfortunately, they come with a horrible nightmare of a parent. That’s the situation these unlucky people found themselves in, and now they’ve shared their stories with the world via Reddit and Buzzfeed. Let’s sort the sordid tales into categories and look at the most common types of monsters-in–law.
The Possessive Puppet Master
This flavor of in-law sees their child as purely an extension of themselves rather than a person in their own right. Even once their son or daughter is a grown adult capable of making their own decisions, the Puppet Master will want to control them.
From homes to friendships to the decision to have children, no aspect of adult life is too personal for the Possessive Puppet Master not to meddle in.
Money for grandkids!
A person going under the name Bisexualdw posted this horrifying story on Reddit. “My mother-in-law (MIL) is obsessed with having grandkids and is in complete denial that my husband and I aren’t planning on having any. Last time she visited, she stole one of my birth control pills, I guess thinking that I wouldn’t notice,” they wrote.
“And he’s not even her only kid! He’s just the only boy, so his sister’s kids wouldn’t matter. She recently said she’d pay me $30,000 to have a kid. I say raise it to $100,000 and get back to me.”
Taking over the house
Other Possessive Puppet Masters act like their child’s house is their own and come and go as they please. That’s what happened to Buzzfeed contributor jessieelsons when she was in hospital giving birth to her third child.
“My mother-in-law proceeded to attempt to re-decorate my house,” she said. “She brought art from her house and hung it on my walls and removed some of my art that I had hanging. I came home with a newborn to see her thrift-store crap hanging on my walls. I was furious.”
Hideous
A similar thing happened to Mrsmarik, who told her story on Reddit. She and her husband went on holiday and when they got back, “Our living room had been totally rearranged. Then I walked through to the kitchen/dining room. There was a new, hideous dining room table where our old one used to be. Then I went to our bedroom. It too had been rearranged! I was livid.”
“So there we were, at 2:00 a.m., rearranging our whole house back to normal. And that was not the worst part. I cannot stress enough how literal I am when I say that we went on to find that every single shelf, cupboard and drawer in the house had been gone through and reorganized as well.” Absolute nightmare.