u/ClosetedGothAdult

I'm weirdly happy to have a place to share all my in laws antics. So, please enjoy a list of the last seven years of antics from my MIL:

1. MIL gifted me and her daughter pregnancy tests for Christmas. This was my first Christmas in the family.

2. I'm ginger so I wear sunscreen liberally. She tells me everytime that sunscreen causes cancer and I should stop. Never mind that her son has literally had skin cancer removed when he was in his twenties

3. told me breathing techniques would cure my scoliosis

4. helped us buy a house (which I'm grateful for), but then got mad when we put a downpayment on a house that wasn't next door to hers. Then for the next year, she'd end conversations with "be sure to thank me for the house!" Honestly if I had known this would happen, I don't know if I would have accepted the help.

5. weighed family members against her pregnant daughter and thought it was funny that her pregnant daughter weighed more than anyone else in the family (husband and I did not participate)

6. when my husband and I looked into adoption/fostering, she told us that all her friends who adopted and fostered "regretted it" and that we'll just have a "druggy baby." She later gave a half assed apology to us and said she "didn't know what she did that was wrong." When I told her, she doubled down on her statements.

7. TW: child molestation

When it came out that a cousin had molested his daughter, my husband and I cut him off and decided not to have a relationship with him. MIL claimed I was "tearing the family apart" and needed to "sort out of my priorities" :/ they now invite the cousin to family events and exclude my husband and I

Shout out to my husband for standing up for/with me in all of these situations!