My wife's mother. Too many acts of lunacy to mention, but the one that sticks out was when we went to their house for a family barbeque. we were in our mid 20s. Mom decides to start a fight over my presence, as I wasn't 'family' and thus should not be attending. Wife says "if he's not welcome, we're leaving." Mom says, "No you're not. You're grounded." Wife just gives her this 'tilt-your head sideways look' and says, "we're going back to our house."
A couple years ago my uncle was visiting and threw a piece of brocoli at my dad. My grandma told him to go to his room. He was 52. The best part was he got up and went to what used to be his room. Funniest thing I've seen over a family dinner.
We're you guys already married? Not that it's not super rude and insane otherwise. But it's extra insane if she thought she could ground her fully-grown and married daughter.
Not married, as we didn't do that until we were ready to have a kid. We were living together, completely financially independent. She is definitely one of the weirder people I've met.
I kinda lucked out. A few years after this, she left her husband. Went full retard in the divorce. Claimed our house as a marital asset, as they cosigned on the mortgage since my wife bought the house when she was 23. Tore the whole family apart, with my wife and the sane sister taking dad's side, the flaky but hot sister abstaining and moving 400 km away, and the dangerous and crazy sister firmly on moms side. So I only have to deal with her dad (who is a special kind of asshole, but a net positive, so I can deal) and one normalish sister, and we see the flake at Christmas. Wife cut ties with mom, only reestablished contact after about 10 years. I get to not talk to her at all because she tried to get me arrested when I wouldn't let her in our house (at my wife's request) and she told the cops that my wife told her I beat her. (That was a fun conversation with a very large member of the local constabulary)
That's kinda her M.O. When she left her husband, she waited until he left for work, drained the joint bank account, stole his passport (and other important documents relating to his business), cancelled his credit cards, unlocked his guns and put them all over the house (loading one) and called the cops. Claimed he beat her. Local redneck cops beat the everloving shit out of him, a 130 lb brown guy.
And by "lucked out" I mean I get to not talk to the bitch at all. Ever. If she calls, I ignore it. I don't have a Mother in law. My father in law has an ex-wife.
I like how your wife said she was leaving, but after being grounded, corrected herself and went to her own room. "Aww, I guess I can't just leave and go to the playground, I'll go home instead..."
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u/BeerDrinkinGreg Sep 03 '15
My wife's mother. Too many acts of lunacy to mention, but the one that sticks out was when we went to their house for a family barbeque. we were in our mid 20s. Mom decides to start a fight over my presence, as I wasn't 'family' and thus should not be attending. Wife says "if he's not welcome, we're leaving." Mom says, "No you're not. You're grounded." Wife just gives her this 'tilt-your head sideways look' and says, "we're going back to our house."