6. “I have an ex-MIL who was just awful and only got worse after my son was born. She made regular snide remarks about me not working while pregnant. I wasn’t employed prior to becoming pregnant and was a full-time student. She worked while she was pregnant, so she thought I had to too. She also threw a fit that they weren’t the first ones we called when my son was born. They were actually the second people we called, and they weren’t even home to answer the phone to begin with. Oh, she also thought rear-facing car seats were stupid and constantly tried to talk us into front-facing our infant. One day we were all at Lowe’s, and she asked if she could take our son to go to look at a fridge she was thinking about ordering. OK, sure, I guess? Turns out she actually went around the store to the other exit and buckled in our 1-year-old without a car seat in the front seat of her truck and went joy-riding in the parking lot.”
“Two years later, at her house, she asked if she could take our son to her backyard to play, as it was fenced in. I said yes and told her keep him there because he was a runner and reminded her that she lived next to a busy highway. Ten minutes later, she came running in the FRONT door out of breath with my toddler in tow. Turns out she took him to the front yard and he immediately ran away from her and she had to catch him. Exactly as I warned her. We went no-contact with her because of her constant rudeness and boundary violations. Her response was to try to check our son out of his preschool without us knowing. Obviously, the school didn’t let that happen because she wasn’t on the pickup list. Our son’s teacher immediately let us know that she tried to check him out.”
—Ivocat
17 Horrible In-Laws Who Terrorized Their Families
