We live with my MIL due to leaving an apartment that was no longer habitable (fire). So overall I am grateful for her and FIL for letting me stay and my 2 kids and husband. However she is strange with my kids and ignores them at home yet invites herself to my sons basketball game. She needs to do the imaginary roll call. Also, my mom has breast cancer and looks totally different so I don't invite my mom due to her not feeling comfortable about seeing family members atm. But my FIL and MIL question why my parents don't come to my son's games (it's because their dumbasses invite themselves) and if my parents did go, they wouldn't like it either because then its a competition.
We will move out ASAP since MIL and FIL are retiring next month and although I appreciate the discounted rent, its driving me mad and i cannot imagine when they are both home 24/7. My MIL wants to invite her other grandchildren to sleep over yet we it's tiny house and my husband has already told her it would make us comfortable if she can just wait until we move out...she has agreed yet brings it up to me like as if i will convince my husband...she thinks shes so clever...shes very calculated but luckily DH and I are 5 steps ahead. We can never share about raises or savings or anything of that nature because then her daughter is so less fortunate....everything we say backfires so we don't share anything. She insists on going to my son's game to cheer hime on, show face, and ignore him at her house. It's completely bizarre. Next season, when we are moved out I don't DH HELL NO are we inviting them, no way..she has no clue about what's going on in the sport and in addition she doesn't even communicate with my son at home.
Also my parents are annoying me because it seems like they put very little to no effort into my kids. DH and I want to live near family however at this point I wonder why bother? We live in the SF Bay Area and it is truly expensive but now I am considering moving, it's our families are so unbelievably toxic.