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“My ex-MIL belongs here. She divorced my ex’s dad when my ex was in middle school and never dated after that or remarried. Instead, she turned my ex-husband into her weird partner/man of the house. He hadn’t had any relationships before he and I got together, so she was not a fan of having ‘competition’ for the time, attention, and affection of her son (an only child, mind you). She would get upset and guilt-trip him if she didn’t talk to him every day on the phone with stuff like, ‘I could be DEAD and you wouldn’t even know it because you don’t call me.’ She tried to gaslight me and said she didn’t believe me when I told her about my horrible narcissistic and borderline personality mother. She tried to have us get married in her backyard, her way, in line with her religion, with control over the guest list, food, etc. (that did not happen).”
“She tried to pull a stunt saying that if we didn’t get married in accordance with her religion, she wouldn’t come. Her brothers and sister said the same thing, but the MIL and one brother ended up showing up. She would want to sit on the couch with my husband and watch movies while holding his hand. She claimed I had a ‘magic vagina’ because clearly there was no other reason why her son wasn’t at her disposal the way she wanted him to be. When we moved to the other side of town (purely coincidental), she tried making it about her and said we moved as ‘far away from her as possible’ on purpose. She also spoke negatively about the fact that I had tattoos (only three on my back, and all with personal meaning), yet she had her eyebrows, eyeliner, and lipliner tattooed on. Yeah, it was wild.”
—Boop
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahdobro/cruel-in-laws-with-no-boundaries
