My luck with close (mother or father) in-laws has been pretty good so far. Aside from the aunt I grouched about here - my ex-MIL was a doll and my current MIL lives far away and can’t travel due to health issues. She visited us once after we were married and we went to her house last winter and are making plans to visit her next summer. From what I gather, my husband had an unusually rotten childhood and he doesn’t have much desire to see either of his parents on a regular basis.

But, I do have the Queen Bint of sister-in-laws! (Okay, not as bad as Winnie’s in that she never got my kids high....but she’s a class A bitch.) I met Husband on a blind date. His sister was friends with a friend of mine and they thought he needed to go on a date with me. I thought it was weird because if I’m going to visit my sister who’s 1000 miles away - I wouldn’t want to waste time on a blind date. I’d want to visit with my sister. Much later, after we were married, Husband asked me now that I’d met his sister if I could see why he’d be perfectly fine with a blind date to just get out of her house for awhile.

I lived in a very small town and after our date SIL was trying to pick Husband’s brain for gossip about me but he had none to give. So she was nice enough to rehash every bad thing she’d ever heard about me. Then we got married and she damn near lost her mind. She spent the first few years of our marriage running me down in front of Husband whenever we’d visit in the summer. The last time I was in her house (4 or 5 years ago), she was home for almost an hour before acknowledging me.

We don’t go to her house when we blow through her state in the summer anymore. We used to so the boys could see their aunt but after a visit awhile back (Husband and boys went there while I stayed at a friend’s house) the boys said they didn’t like going there because, “Aunt BitchyMcBitcherson screams all the time. It’s not nice there.”

She just divorced after being married for 10 years (to her 3rd husband - she got pissed at Husband when he mentioned that in a restaurant once when she was picking at him because I was his 3rd wife. Ha! I guess the marriage race is one she will win if she finds a sucker to be #4!) and the funny thing is that the whole time she was married - she was quick to point out how their religion was the way to go and what a wonderful life she had being a stay at home mother but the moment she decided to divorce? The religion was suddenly deemed a cult and she was being smothered at home. Coincidentally, her husband's business went belly-up right before she decided these things.

I’d also like to point out that I find it interesting that she’d be all gung-ho about a religion that doesn’t allow you to drink caffeine (She wigged out when I brought tea to her house. I didn’t know anything about her religion and it was before Husband and I were married. I was trying to be nice by bringing lunch over so we could visit and get to know each other. Sue me.) but it’s okay that she’s had multiple tit jobs and so much work on her face that she looks like a cat.

I guess I don’t like her because she’s a hypocrite. Don’t act like you’re better than everyone else when your skeletons are just as bad, or worse, than mine. *insert raspberry here*