My mother-in-law and I just cannot get along.
At first, we tried living together, but it only lasted a month.
My relationship with my father-in-law is quite good; we get on well enough. But things were much more complicated with his wife. She took a dislike to me the moment we met.
Youve used the wrong pan! shed shout. Youre not cooking the potatoes properly!
And comments like that never seemed to stop.
Eventually, we moved into a rented flat, and thats when I realised I was pregnant. My husbands father had to step in and tell my mother-in-law to stop getting on my nerves, for the sake of her future granddaughter.
Shes always been a difficult woman, my father-in-law would say. Even when she was young, she had quite the temper. But now shes absolutely lost all reason in her old age. I only married her because she waited for me while I was away in the army, and then, well, I just got used to her.
While I was pregnant, my mother-in-law did actually calm down and kept mostly to herself. But the moment our daughter was born, the trouble started all over again. Our little girl came five weeks early, but thankfully she was perfectly healthy.
Thats not your child, my mother-in-law accused my husband.
Are you completely blind? Dont you see why the baby was born so early? Thats someone elses child.
Luckily, my husband stood by me and protected me from her attacks. He even threw his own mother out of the house the last time it happened.
She never met her granddaughter and refused to make amends. My father-in-law, on the other hand, visited us often and brought us gifts, though his wife would give him a hard time for it back home.
I have no idea what my father-in-law had been watching, but when our daughter turned three, he took her out for a walk and decided to have a DNA test done. He wanted to teach my mother-in-law a lesson.
My sons not in? he said, looking unsettled as he stood at our door. Well, perhaps its just as well. Ive got the DNA results. Turns out, my wife was right. Whos the father of your child? That little girl isnt ours!
I was in shock, having known nothing about any test. I was absolutely sure my husband was the father.
So, my husband and I did our own test together, and it proved he is indeed our daughters dad. It turns out my father-in-law wasnt the biological grandfather.
So much for waiting for me to come home from the army! he fumed.
In the end, they divorced in their old age, even though she begged for forgiveness for a long time.
Before you go blaming others, its worth taking a good look at yourself first.
What do you think about all this?
