How is it living with your mother-inlaw?

When we went to move from a rented house to our own home the deal fell through just days after we gave notice of leaving our rental home. My daughter and I ended up with my in-laws while he stayed where we lived in a hotel so he could work. I was there for three months and I am lucky enough to get along with my mother in law very well. In truth my issue was my over bearing father in law who I couldn't get away from quick enough. I still can't stand to be around him 10 years later.

Oh my God, you'd have to find a discussion I started a few years ago about my mother in law. My husband and I lived with her for about 2 and a half years and the whole time it was a nightmare. If you thought you had it bad, trust me, my mother in law was the worst person you could have ever met. She didn't work, she refused to. She didn't want to pay rent or bills or buy food, she wanted to mooch off of us the entire time. She did no house cleaning, she sat and watched tv all day, eating junk food. She was so lazy. She did nothing to help us move when we had to downsize to an apartment from a house. She yelled at the movers we had hired, they wanted payment up front, but she refused, and they drove off leaving us stranded. At the last minute I managed to find someone to move us, and even then, they did a lousy job, and she was ready to yell at them too. At the apartment we moved to, she was just as bad, but she got worse over time. She was even more lazy and decided that again, she didn't want to pay for anything. I had to pay for catfood for her cats, and she would only feed them once a day. She starved those poor cats. She would play with the bathroom tap, there was a problem with it and it sounded like a jackhammer when the hot water was turned on. She was told several times not to do this, but she continued to do so. It started to turn violent during the last months she was with us, she continually hit me and hurt me, but didn't care. The last straw was when she took a chunk out of my back when she bit me, the cops came and warned her not to do anything to me. But a couple hours later, she cornered me in my room, I shut and locked the door and she all but broke it down. She had me on the floor and was kicking me, I got bruised up pretty bad. All that time I was on the phone with the police, trying to get them to the apartment quickly to remove her. They split us up, me, my husband and the cats in the hall, they were terrified of her, and she was in the apartment with one of the cops. She claimed that my husband was against her, siding for me, ganging up against her. The cop that was with her was a supervisor and told my mother in law that she stood there for almost 10 minutes after the first time they were there, listening to her ranting and raving, screaming and yelling. They told her to leave and not return to the apartment. If they had to come back then she'd be going to jail. Since she was gone to an address unknown, I couldn't get a restraining order put on her, or get her in for a psych evaluation which she desperately needed after that incident. I had one cat licensed so I was his legal owner, and she cried and complained and said I had no right to do that. I let her have the other cat because that one didn't bond with me like the one I kept. That cat follows me everywhere and sleeps with me too. He's much happier with me. We haven't seen my mother in law since she was forced out of the apartment, and that was 2 years ago. We're all much better without her, but she still blames me for her attitude and her attack on me, she says it's all my fault. But I don't pay attention to that, I've moved on with my life and I'm glad she's gone. That is a nightmare I wouldn't wish on anyone.

I lived with my wife's parents for a few weeks while the company we bought our mobile home from was getting it ready to set up, and while I had a good relationship with them, it was pure hell...I do NOT want to go through that again...

That really a horrible things if your mother-in-law is a kind of nagger. Huh!..be prepare for the disaster and it maybe affect your relationship with your wife or it maybe resulted to separation... But if your mother-in-law is good...you can breath easily because there someone to help you raise your children

Hi Doray, I'm very close to my partner's mother. We learn different language together, we go for shopping together, we go out to the bar and have a few drink together, we cook together, and we visit a lot of places together, and the best thing is when I had a fight with her son, I will go and cry to her then she will nag my partner for me. Hmmmm....maybe because my partner is the only child in the family Means I'm the only daughter in law as well. My partner's mother had been wanting a daughter all her life too but she couldn't. I have been very close to her since the first few months of my relationship with my partner, we are now already together for 5 years. I called his mother mum and she is happy with it, oh, and she calls me baby! lol. Not all mother-in-laws are bad. We must also not expect for the mother-in-law to always make effort to like us, but we also must work for it too. The fact is, we have not lived with them since we were a kid, so it does takes time and effort to develop a good relationship between us and our mother-in-law. Good luck and have a nice day

i'm still not married but according what i see from my friends who already married, there's no problem when the husband live with wife's mother and there is many problems where you as a wife live with husband's mother so why many wife ask their husband to move on from the house. When you live there, the mother always involve with your problems.