Women Reveal The Most Irritating Things About Their In-Laws

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Nov 26, 2021 2:30 PM EST

There are plenty of hellish in-laws to go around. In an AskWomen thread, women exchanged the most irritating things about their in-laws. Many of the responses involved parents that were total hoarders, whereas others were about in-laws who were actually nice people but had no idea how to communicate, which could obviously drive people crazy. Tring to build a relationship with one's in-laws is challenging, and this list is proof that it doesn't always work out the way we want it to. 

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  • 01
    Human body - r/AskWomen · Posted by u/hirekbharti 21 hours ago What is the most irritating thing your in-laws do?
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    Font - Disastrous-Fuel-2757 · 21h My MIL has hoarded everything from my husbands childhood, I mean things like pencils cases from every school year. Then she brings it all to our small house and I have to be the nasty one to say, I don't have anywhere to put your collection of 35 stuffed monkeys, you cant keep them. Then my husband has a tantrum, just kidding, he thinks it will offend his mother and gets sentimental about things that have been up the loft for 15 years.
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    Font - valerieswrld · 18h Ughh my MIL is the same. She saved EVERYTHING even his toolbox of pencils he saved from sharpening and old underwear WTF. Sadly my husband still wants some of the stuff and it is still sitting in our attic. Now that we have a baby my MIL brings out old gross things she wants my daughter to wear or play with. She is like, "this is my great grandmothers christening gown that I want baby to wear." I honestly don't give a shit. I have zero things from my childhood and my fa
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    Organism - Metal__Barbie · 16h Bruh. Mine showed up our first Christmas together, sat in the parking lot like a creep until we got up according to neighbors, and then hauled half her storage unit into our 800 sq ft apartment we shared with a roommate. One of the items was a complete strangers PhD. That she found at Goodwill and felt bad for. Wtf.
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    Handwriting - Stepharious · 15h I am now the proud owner of a 2-foot lock of my husband's hair in a ziplock bag from his long-hair phase thanks to my MIL. Thanks?
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    Human body - Delicious_Sleep6546 · 20h My MIL is a "good Christian" who judges nobody... she's the most judgmental person I've ever met.
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    Font - 123sarahcb · 18h My in laws are the nicest people and the WORST communicators. We're hosting a holiday meal this year and they wont give a straight answer if their siblings (my spouse's aunts and uncle) are coming - my MIL is afraid to offend us by straight up declining the invite on their behalf and also doesn't want to impose by adding extra people so instead we play the guessing game with what our headcount will be. Adding 4 people is no extra trouble, but I do need to know how many we
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    Font - She's also called me the other day asking if she "could hire a cleaning company to do the house before Thanksgiving"; my gut reaction is to be terribly offended that she thinks our house is a mess and needs professional help but what she actually means is "thank you so much for hosting, I want it to be as easy as possible for you". Fortunately I know her heart is always in the right place but coming from a very direct/blunt family, it's so stressful to have to decipher what they mean in a
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    Font - DoubleDuke101 · 20h Blames me for 'leading her precious son away from her'. She's insanely possessive and we see her once a year around Christmas.
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    Font - DoubleDuke101 · 12h My MIL recently told me that it's very hard for her to share her son with me. Another time she told me that the only difference between her and me is that she can't have intimacy with him. It irritates me so much. I feel like a second woman all the time.
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    Font - Intrepid_Ostrich_847 · 19h My MIL never lets me contribute anything to meals ("Don't bring anything. I've got it all covered!") And then while we eat, she moans about how nobody ever brings anything. I don't get it. She's also one of those women who refuses to share recipes. "Oh, just a little of that and a little of this." Like...what kind of woman doesn't share a recipe?? Annoying AF.
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    Human body - Icy_Republic8071 · 20h Play the victim. Don't confront issues, but then go and tell my husband whatever I did that day that bothered them.
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    Font - winterbaby26 · 20h Making snide comments when my husbands not around. She's no longer apart of our lives because she took it upon herself to say my husbands life would be different if he didn't have to raise my kids..yeah,no.
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    Font - Purple_potato-1234 · 20h There's a lot to choose from, but I would say: cut me every time I speak to my husband. We speak a different language together that she doesn't speak, and the moment we start discussing, she interrupts. It's so systematic, it could be funny if it wasn't so frustrating!
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    Font - Kashara1989 · 15h My MIL tries to "out mum" me with stuff with my child, who's 9 months. For instance he was crawling on the floor playing. He grunted and she said "oh, he's filling his nappy. ". I said "I don't think he is" because I know what his pooping face looks like but I didn't want to say that so I just said "he's already been today." and she said to him "you're not allowed to go twice in one day" in a stupid sing song voice.
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    Font - Stinky_Butt_ · 16h · edited 16h My in-laws are really nice people over-all, but MIL speaks SO MUCH about herself and SO LOUDLY. We visit them every two months and damn, I know all about her, what she saw and heard and experienced when we were not here
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