I Have Issues With My Mother In Law

My MIL has no fucking idea what "live within your means" is. 🙄

She spends hundreds of dollars a month on absolutely unnecessary bullshit (cigarettes, lottery tickets, cluttery shit from secondhand stores, dining out every fucking day, etc.) all the while, allowing her actual basic expenses to go unpaid. Then in the middle of the month she comes to ME (jobless with barely any income) for money because she already burned through hers. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

I can't fucking stand this woman. I will throw a fucking party when we finally get far away from her. 🎉🎈🎶🎈🎶🎈🎉💃🏻🕺

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HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

Cut her off

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@HoraceGreenley wish we could.

HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

@DearAmbellina2113 do it

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@HoraceGreenley not really an option.

HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

@DearAmbellina2113 Until you do she will sponge off you. You are enabling her.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@HoraceGreenley it's not that easy. Basically it's her husband who is enabling her. He is the one who pays her and us, and when she burns through her money, she comes to me asking for ours. We have tried to talk to her husband about it but he just lets it happen.

HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

@DearAmbellina2113 People will only do to you what you let them do.

Cut her off. The circumstances are irrelevant.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@HoraceGreenley it's worse when we deny her. She is very passive aggressive and vindictive and will do little things to "pay us back" for confronting her. We aren't the ones with the power here. Her husband is. And he allows her to do whatever she wants.

HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

@DearAmbellina2113 cut her off.

She is a manipulative woman with a personality disorder.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@HoraceGreenley she definitely is. But we cant cut her off unless we want hell to pay later.

HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

@DearAmbellina2113 That's the point. It's easier to pay her than face the consequences.

Cut her off and don't give in. It's the only way.