Mother inlaw to close.
By mrbranan
@mrbranan (1012)
United States
March 15, 2007 8:40am CST
A friend of mine mother inlaw lives next door to her. It drives her crazy. She goes over there everyday and tell her how sick she is. That she can't hardly get around and she is in pain all of the time. My friend ends up going to her house and cleaning it and doing her laundry all the time. My friend thinks she is hinting around to moving in with her and her husband. I say no way she is already taking advantage of her and if she moves in it will be worse. Besides I couldn't take all of that complaining all day every day. At least now she goes home at night and she gets a break.
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5 responses
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
15 Mar 07
Your friend needs to talk to her husband about it, and tell him how difficult this situation is becoming. I don't think I could handle this on a daily basis. My mother in law is very sweet and has her husband and daughter to help her do things (besides shes more than capable in doing them herself). If the pain was genuine and she was struggling to do things around the house, then i suppose i would help out. But if i felt she was taking advantage of me, then i would do something about it, starting with my husband!!! Good luck!
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@bicklelady (1404)
• United States
16 Mar 07
ell I can understand how it would drive her crazy. Is her husband around? Maybe she is just lonely. I wish my mother-in-law lived beside me. We are really close. I live beside my parents and they get along better with my husband then with me. I would try to talk to her about complaining. does your friend have kids? If she does, she needs to remember one day she will be a mother in law.
@angelap41 (113)
• United States
15 Mar 07
I agree that your friend needs to discuss the situation with her husband and mother in law. If this is truly a problem maybe thay could consider hiring a house cleaning service for the mother in law to prevent your friend from having to do it. But I think a serious conversation needs to be had with her husband about it. I would defintely not move in together right now.
