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    • S Offline
      shine_fs
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      Mrs Ang:
      The most stupid remarks from my sils is \"why you didn't call my mother often?\" Omg!!! I don't even call my mum often since was so busy being a FTWM. Does anyone in KiasuParents forum called their mils often?

      Tell you MrsAng, the best part is I don't even know my MIL and SIL's house number...I think they also don't have mine. :boogie:

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        Mrs Ang
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        hquek:

        I have to admit, I'm the bad DIL - I never ever call my MIL - call for what? discuss the weather?
        I have told SIL off and said, \"your brother also don't called my mum\". Then SIL commented, \"why you keep comparing to my brother?\" Then I told her, \"you will understand after you are married!\" šŸ˜› SIL talked to me over phone until cried....shouldn't I be the one 😢 . Now both single SILS treat me transparent....but who cares.

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          mathsparks
          last edited by

          Sharing some very happy news, finally, after years of mil staying with us,

          we'll be moving to a smaller place and she won't be moving in with us.

          We're not kicking her out, but her 2 other sons have spare rooms for her. So, yep, I'm really over the moon. Smaller place, but lots of freedom. :rahrah: Though a 4th room would've allowed us to have a study room, it would also mean the mil would decide to stick to us. So we consciously avoided those 4roomers. :rahrah:

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            Mrs Ang
            last edited by

            shine_fs:
            Tell you MrsAng, the best part is I don't even know my MIL and SIL's house number...I think they also don't have mine. :boogie:

            Cool !! How I wish they don't have mine. 😢 They have my mobile number too. I have terminated my house line after the unhappy phone conversation. Any way nobody at home whole day šŸ˜‰

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              Mrs Ang
              last edited by

              mathsparks:
              Sharing some very happy news, finally, after years of mil staying with us,

              we'll be moving to a smaller place and she won't be moving in with us.
              :congrats: This is really a time for celebration...haha...am I being bad? :celebrate:

              My hubby is the only son with two younger sisters! What should I do....I don't want to stay with this kind of selfish and crazy MIL. 😢

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                mathsparks
                last edited by

                hquek:

                I have to admit, I'm the bad DIL - I never ever call my MIL - call for what? discuss the weather?
                paiseh, :oops: me stay under one roof with mil also nv discuss anythg coz her concerns are always about food nia.

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                  mathsparks
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                  Mrs Ang:
                  mathsparks:

                  Sharing some very happy news, finally, after years of mil staying with us,

                  we'll be moving to a smaller place and she won't be moving in with us.

                  :congrats: This is really a time for celebration...haha...am I being bad? :celebrate:

                  My hubby is the only son with two younger sisters! What should I do....I don't want to stay with this kind of selfish and crazy MIL. 😢

                  cham hor? mrs ang. I was real mad and upset in my newly wed years, but over the years, I've learned to kan kai dian, since I've a life to lead. Finally, my freedom is round th corner, by end of Sep. Can't wait. Thing is, my mil has 5 sons and prefer to stick to my dh, who's the youngest. Even now, she's kinda bitter, so though we've found a unit in the same neighbourhood, we haven't shared the good news with her.

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                    buds
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                    Mrs Ang:
                    I also have unhappy events with both sils and mil. Mil have played me out twice regarding helping to take care of bb. When she tried the 3rd time and my hubby tactfully rejected her offer, she give sarcastic remarks...I almost blown up :x. Sils felt that their mothers are right. They never considered that I need to go back to work and my father don't own the company!

                    I go by trying not to depend on others. Since it's my children, i will try as
                    best as possible to take care of my issues between myself and hubs. As
                    for DD1, my mumsie offered to care for her while i continue working and
                    when she said she couldn't handle two babies (1 toddler + i infant) at one
                    time, i resigned from my job with support from hubs. This way, i don't get
                    disappointed since i didn't hope for anyone to help solve the issue at first.
                    Mrs Ang:
                    I didn't manage to forgive and forget few months after all these unhappiness. Seeing their faces just make me boiled.
                    Who said anything about forgiveness? :lol:

                    Boiled issues take time to cool and some serious issues take forever to be
                    forgotten and sometimes at the expense of someone getting heart attack
                    first. Just that, having so much hate everyday (esp since i live with my ILs)
                    is an extremely tiring feeling. Somehow, i suppose i just have more tolerant
                    factor... so most times i ren. Not that i condone or agree but just that it is
                    pointless. I also believe in karma... things have a way of coming round one
                    way or another. It is scary. I catch up on tv or reading when i visit ILs when
                    we weren't staying together initially.
                    Mrs Ang:
                    The most stupid remarks from my sils is \"why you didn't call my mother often?\" Omg!!! I don't even call my mum often since was so busy being a FTWM. Does anyone in KiasuParents forum called their mils often?
                    I did. At least once a week. I get her presents on her birthday. I treat her
                    to lunch and massage and the occasional movie treats too. But still... i am
                    in no way a good DIL ever in her eyes... and the fact is even clearer after
                    she blatantly showed how proud she was of SIL having given birth to their
                    ONLY grandson. Even SIL thought it felt awkward cos they've never been
                    close and also were at loggerheads quite often. She was the more vocal
                    sort of DIL and very bochap.

                    A lotta stuff happened over the years until MIL now quite paiseh to have
                    conversation with me. I was right about a lot of things and all that she did
                    to say me and create a rift with my hubs didn't work out after all. Though
                    the road/journey has been long, i am still the one to come out of the rut
                    still standing alive and kicking with crystal clear conscience. The patience
                    did pay off eventually.

                    And i cudn have made it myself without support from friends here and real
                    time and also the solace i got from constant prayers. While the road has
                    been rough, i got the rough going nevertheless and regardless of the many
                    troubles i've had to endure over the years, i'm pretty excited about the fact
                    that we are soon to move to our new place very soon. I never thought i wud
                    see the day...

                    Mrs Ang, you are lucky your hubs understands the situation and is on your
                    side... thinking of you and family first before anything else cos i didn't have
                    that until recently. I'm thankful that hubs eventually see the light... it's after
                    all not just for me but for US.

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                      mathsparks
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                      And buds, you're very fortunate too, as in, you dont have to live with mil. Plus you're a sahm with support of hubs.


                      Over the years, my mil was never satisfied with me either, though we gave her a room of her own plus a maid.

                      She very much preferred her 3rd dil, who is perfect in her eyes, even her maid is deemed more capable than mine. Her fav dil, on hearing that we were about to sell our place, hastily arranged to rent out 2 of her rooms to avoid the mil moving in with her.:faint:

                      Haiz..too many grouses, but I'm just happy to finally being able to move on.

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                        buds
                        last edited by

                        mathsparks:
                        Sharing some very happy news, finally, after years of mil staying with us, we'll be moving to a smaller place and she won't be moving in with us.

                        Mathsparks! :celebrate: CONGRATS! :celebrate:
                        Finally..... :love:

                        Hubs pondered over a smaller space initially in
                        case we had to go thru the same thing with the
                        new space. But i guess with the new baby news
                        it's almost automatic that there won't be space,
                        with or without that spare room. šŸ˜‰

                        Things have a way of working itself out sometimes, huh. šŸ˜„
                        mathsparks:
                        We're not kicking her out, but her 2 other sons have spare rooms for her.
                        Tsk! Of course not. :lol: We know that.. :hugs:
                        mathsparks:
                        So, yep, I'm really over the moon.
                        I'm sure. šŸ˜„ You sound over the moon!
                        mathsparks:
                        Smaller place, but lots of freedom. :rahrah: Though a 4th room would've allowed us to have a study room, it would also mean the mil would decide to stick to us. So we consciously avoided those 4roomers. :rahrah:
                        Nothing beats one's own... no matter how big or how small the house is.
                        It's finally your own home... your own crib... your own space.

                        After how many years (for you)?

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