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CarlosHoney
10-11-2005, 10:25 PM
This one takes the cake!! :o

My fiancé and I had been together for over five years before we got married. Neither one of us had spoken to his mother at that point for about four years, personal reasons. We made it very clear to his family that she was not invited. So, of course, as we were announced husband and wife, I turned around to see the devil incarnate standing up all alone and clapping and "raising the roof". As if that wasn't bad enough, she actually had the gall to try and get in some of the pictures. She tells me, "Well, I am the groom's mother!", to which I promptly replied, "Okay, but you also were not invited!!!"

Needless to say, she stuck around the rest of the evening being rude to the other guests. She was telling everyone that we weren't going to make it past the first year, that our babies better look like him or else they would be destined to be alone forever, or, my favorite, I should be grateful to her for such a fabulous job she did raising my husband. At this point my husband, quite drunk by now, grabbed his mother and asked her to leave. When she started making a scene about it, he simply threw her out and asked security to make sure she stayed away. Not to anyone's surprise, she spent the rest of the night in a holding cell.

------------Courtesy of Etiuuette Hell---------------------------

bnd94
10-12-2005, 06:51 AM
OMG That would be so awful! I can't even imagine!!

sstark1218
10-12-2005, 10:21 AM
Wow, and I thought I had it bad.. that really does take the cake! Hope it all works out for you and your husband!

CarlosHoney
10-12-2005, 12:03 PM
That's not my story, thank god! I read it on that website and HAD to share it. There are lots of juicy stories on there.

sstark1218
10-12-2005, 01:29 PM
Oh okay, I see it now.. still.. I couldnt even imagine..

CindySue
10-12-2005, 02:47 PM
That sounds like something my mother would do. If that were us in the story, we would BOTH be drunk.
I feel sorry for that poor woman. Hopefully they dont have to deal with her very often.

smalllady
10-13-2005, 05:26 PM
My FMIL threw us an engagement party we didn't want and made it into basically another wedding, with over 150 guests, catered, etc. I complained and complained about it until we got into a fight and demanded that the guest list be cut to just family and close friends (still there were people there I didn't know) and that finger food and wine was perfectly fine. To this, she cried and we didn't speak for a few days. Finally I apologized for being rude about it and this was her response - "I just wish you could respect my dream" - WHAT - isn't this mine and my fiance's wedding - which I said to her and then her reply was "Well you will have the wedding day" You have got to be kidding me!!!!

bnd94
10-14-2005, 09:14 AM
My FMIL threw us an engagement party we didn't want and made it into basically another wedding, with over 150 guests, catered, etc. I complained and complained about it until we got into a fight and demanded that the guest list be cut to just family and close friends (still there were people there I didn't know) and that finger food and wine was perfectly fine. To this, she cried and we didn't speak for a few days. Finally I apologized for being rude about it and this was her response - "I just wish you could respect my dream" - WHAT - isn't this mine and my fiance's wedding - which I said to her and then her reply was "Well you will have the wedding day" You have got to be kidding me!!!!

Thats crazy! What was she thinking. I get along really well with my FMIL. I feel so lucky! :)

CarlosHoney
10-14-2005, 07:42 PM
Me too, bnd94! She's super sweet, and very considerate.

LaceyinPgh
10-14-2005, 09:44 PM
I'm with you Becky and Carlo's, I have a great FMIL. I wouldn't trade her or any of Sean's immediate family in for all the money in the world. (Ok, MAYBE for ALL the money in the world, but they would expect me to and not have a problem with it.) I feel really bad for those that have in laws that only want ot cause problems and grief.