You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your mother-in-law
She's the 'other' woman in your life, and if popular culture is to be believed, she is anything from interfering to cold to outright hostile.
While there are plenty of people who enjoy a warm relationship with their mother-in-law, there's just no appetite for those sort of stories.
Instead, we relish anecdotes about overbearing matriarchs with nicknames like 'the witch' and tales of their withering one-liners.
But, joking aside, cultivating a relationship with someone else's family can be hard. Just because you and your significant other love each other doesn't mean everyone else feels the love .
Showing just how tricky navigating a relationship with your in-laws can be, several battle-worn spouses confessed on Whisper the insults, barbs and actual curses they've endured at the hands of their mother-in-laws.
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1. Hubble bubble
"I caught my mother-in-law cursing me with my husband's ex. Literally cursing. Candles and all."
2. Not a weight issue
"My mother-in-law told me I don't have to wear my jacket all the time to hide my stomach because they already know I'm fat. I actually wear it to hide the KP (Keratosis pilaris) scars on my arms."
3. Meow!
"My mother-in-law said I was abusing my cat by giving her some catnip."
4. A woman's place
"My mother-in-law says I'm selfish for not wanting to have kids.
"She says a woman's place is to be a wife AND a mother."
5. Backhanded compliment
"So I dyed my hair darker and my mother-in-law tells me, 'You don't look as pale and tired any more'. Well, thank you!"
6. Upstaged
"My mother-in-law wore a sparkly prom dress to our wedding."
7. Too far
"My mother-in-law admitted to me that she aims to ruin my marriage and she even shared how with me.
"She plans to tell my husband she caught me cheating while he was deployed."
8. Penny in the swear jar
"My mother-in-law taught my two-year-old to call me a 'b****'."
(Source: Mirror)
