My mother-in-law is the worst! The absolute rudest person you’d ever meet in your life. Anyone that’s met her will agree. She took a piece of birthday cake from my 3 yr old before we sang happy birthday, blew out candles and cut the cake. I didn’t notice until we went to sing happy birthday and not only was cake missing, his brother was! She was sitting with my other son spoon feeding him!... Once she mocked my parents on Easter by waving her hands over baskets saying “Ooh look at me I’m blessing the food and I’m not a priest!”.... She stood outside our house in the snow when we said grace on Christmas—and made a big point that she born again Christian self didn’t approve.... She picked my son, the middle kid (that she has an unhealthy obsession with) up from preschool and took him to her home in another city causing him to miss out on his sister’s event at school (she was winning an award) and the dinner to celebrate after... She also told him if he touched his penis he would go to hell (we didn’t find out for ages because she made him promise not to tell), causing months visiting a urologist and therapist to get his urine to flow properly in his body. He was holding it in, wetting the bed, getting infections and his urine started to go backwards in his body.... She took Christmas ornaments and Mother’s Day gifts he made for me saying that she should be his mom, not me! She also gave him a gift signed “your real mom in heaven” so we had to tell him he was adopted at a far younger age than we planned.... She tried to make plans with my oldest two children behind our backs, I overheard her telling my husband that she didn’t want to take the R-word with her. The youngest has special needs) At that point I walked in and said “there’s a door here and a door there, get the fuck out and don’t come back!” We had to put her on a list at school for people that can not have contact with the children, nor pick them up and contact the city because she would come over and go through our garbage.

Note: Regarding school, my husband listed her as an “in case of emergency contact” person. While we could take her off the list, and we did, we could not press charges against her or school, but we did remove him.

We did cut her off in between parties and holidays after every rude comment, cutting her off for good when we found out (after we cut her off from my son in therapy) the fear she instilled in our child, because if it affected his physical health, wtf did she do to his mental health?!?

My husband has been on my side through everything. She wasn’t as nuts when he grew up with her, just mean, and his father was alive, so her true colors weren’t exposed until after he passed.

This list is a just what came to mind and it occurred over a span of years, and it’s been years since we’ve seen her. We’ve considered moving, and just might.

I was out shopping with the boys and we saw her, about a year ago, she (smartly) ran out the door so fast when she saw me look her direction.