WHEN women marry the bloke of their dreams it often means learning to accept his mother too – even with her controlling and interfering ways.
But one woman has revealed how her reasonably perfect relationship with her mother-in-law changed once she became pregnant with her grandchild – and said she’s has been “making my life miserable”.
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The anonymous woman took to Reddit to rant about her mother-in-law’s behaviour admitting that she became enraged when her and her husband refused to stay with her after the baby was born.
After insisting she would in fact stay with her own mum who’d help her with the baby, the grandma-to-be decided to break in to her son’s place and steal everything from the nursery.
Her plan was to set it up in her own place in a bid to convince her daughter-in-law to stay with her so she could spend more time with her grandchild – but instead it turned her away completely.
Taking to the r/JUSTNOMIL forum, the women explained: “I’m 7 months pregnant, she’s been making my life miserable ever since, she’d call everyday to check on her unborn ‘precious’ grandbaby, she tried to talk me into going to the doctor’s appointment with her, demanded that we send her sonogram picture of our baby and went nuts when we ignored her request.
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“It’s been so tiring constantly having to live with her drama while focusing on my pregnancy.
The pregnant woman’s husband often travels for work, leaving her alone at home regularly.
She said: “A few weeks ago, My mother in law called me and offered that we stay at her house after I give birth because my husband will have more trips in the upcoming months as well, and that I will need someone to help take care of our newborn baby.
“My answer was clear, I told her, no, thank you, we’ve already discussed/arranged for that and decided that I will go over to my mom’s after I get out of the hospital.”
But that’s when everything turned with the mum-to-be explaining that she “got mad and jealous and threw a fit”, even badmouthing her own mum saying “I was playing favorites and ignoring her.”
I was stunned, why would she do something like that?
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But just when she thought it was over, the anonymous woman returned home to pick up a few things and noticed a heap of stuff from the nursery was missing – including the mattress, blankets, clothes and diaper packs that she’d only bought a week earlier.
She admitted that she thought she’d been robbed at first, and was about to call the police until her brother-in-law got in touch and revealed what had ACTUALLY happened
“He told me that his mom showed up, took all those things and brought them to her house, and put them in the spare room that she had turned into a nursery in just a matter of two days.”
“I was stunned, why would she do something like that?” she continued. “I get it, she wants to force me and my baby to stay at her house for a few weeks and put together a nursery by stealing from my house. “
Left “beyond angry” with her mother-in-law’s actions, she said that she’d “spent hours just yelling at her on the phone” and demanded she return everything, stat.
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“She tried to sugar coat it and say that I won’t have to move the nursery over to my mom’s now and that she had everything set and organized, she even said that she bought other stuff for the baby that she couldn’t wait to show me,” the mum wrote.
“She called me ‘bitter’ said that I was being rude to her while she was trying to help,” she continued. “She kept stalling basically making this about her feelings.”
After “dealing” with her for so long, teh mum-to-be admitted this was the “final straw” and that she was “done with her”.
She said: “I’m just so done with this rude self-centred controlling b**** of a mother-in-law trying to dictate my life and my baby’s life, this is the final straw and I can’t take this anymore I’M DONE.
Adding: ” I’m dropping the rope on her and her awful behaviour and selfishness.”
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