I will start by saying that I am generally a very easy going person. I am tolerant of most idiotic people and will overlook rudeness in most cases. However, there are times when my easy-going nature is severly tested and I have to say, this is one of those times.
When I met my husband and moved to the UK, I knew that I would be temporarily living with my parents-in-law. I had visions of sitting with my mother-in-law and having great chats and becoming good friends. Instead what I got was miserable and evil woman who had the nerve to threaten me ON my wedding day! Told me over the phone that if I did anything to hurt her son (as if I would!) that I would have nowhere to hide. Who says that to someone??
Since then our relationship has been strained at best. I try to be nice but quite frankly, I'm getting tired of pretending to be a nice person. Thankfully, her and the cranky husband are moving out and soon it will be just my husband and me.
What I can't understand is how a person can be so miserable ALL the time. How is it that when a person says they would kill for their kids (yes, she said that AND meant it), they still do nothing to support them in life or show them that they are proud of them for what they've accomplished? I know that there are plenty of people out there who have hellish in-laws but I wonder sometimes if mine are the masters of being awful. I have never hated anyone as much as I hate my MIL and I don't hate easily. She is the kind of person that will drain your soul and spirit and feed off of it.
Isn't there some mythical creature that fits that description??
