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    In-law problems?

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    • V Offline
      vinegar
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      janet_lee88:
      bil's 5 room was in bishan...and so she wants bragging rights.

      asked sil and myself for house keys. sil asked her 'what for?' then she hinted to me about house keys but i ignored her. she has lots of nonsense...sil told me she brought her friends to visit her at workplace :faint:
      why brought her frds to visit her at office??

      My MIL once owned the hse keys...wah....no way we could rest. :yikes: She suka suka came,even wkend. :rant:

      After we shifted to new pl, she didn't know how to come.our pl is quite remote,not so accessible by public transport.

      She hinted she wanted to visit us,but we simply no time to entertain her.Coz i know once we started the visitation wf her,it'll be never ending story.
      :scratchhead:

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      • janet88J Offline
        janet88
        last edited by

        Mil brought her friends to see dil's office :faint:


        My SIL was shocked...office leh...not shopping centre. Her colleague told her mil arrived. OMG.
        Can you imagine if she was given house keys? No peace at all.

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          Desserts
          last edited by

          Wah! Your mil is bit too much leh! We sahm, have no office, our home is our office. Mil thinks we should be very free to entertain them. Imagine, mil comes up every time. We will kee :siao: very soon

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            janet88
            last edited by

            Desserts:
            Wah! Your mil is bit too much leh! We sahm, have no office, our home is our office. Mil thinks we should be very free to entertain them. Imagine, mil comes up every time. We will kee :siao: very soon

            No way am I going to give her house key...our home is private paradise...shake legs or lying on bed to surf Net...I will not have her intruding into my ME time.

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            • K Offline
              KSmom8
              last edited by

              😓 Thank goodness MIL has never asked for our house keys.


              My mum has a set of my house keys and I have a set of hers. It's for emergency purposes. However, we still call beforehand to check before visiting, and we do not let ourselves in, regardless of whether the owner is at home. I think it's basic courtesy.

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                KSmom8
                last edited by

                I remembered this …


                During the tea ceremony, my MIL gave me a gold chain and put it around my neck. Felt it was strange then, cos I was already wearing a necklace ( that was more impressive ) and it clashed with her necklace. Removed it when I was at my parent’s.

                Many years later, when my Aunt was preparing for my cousin’s wedding, my Aunt mentioned that she was angry when she saw what my MIL did. Said the act of putting a chain around my neck was very traditional and aim was to control and make me obey her.

                It gave me insight into my MIL’s mentality. I laughed it off and told my Aunt that it does not work, my MIL cannot control me and neither do I obey her.

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                  janet88
                  last edited by

                  KSmom8:
                  Many years later, when my Aunt was preparing for my cousin's wedding, my Aunt mentioned that she was angry when she saw what my MIL did. Said the act of putting a chain around my neck was very traditional and aim was to control and make me obey her.


                  It gave me insight into my MIL's mentality. I laughed it off and told my Aunt that it does not work, my MIL cannot control me and neither do I obey her.
                  i didn't know the necklace she gave had that significance :scratchhead:
                  anyway, i will not let her control me...dream on.

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                    SAHM Chew
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                    Anyone had similar experience? My mil likes to say ‘slowly slowly’ to the kids. Everything also says ‘slowly slowly’.

                    Eg, after my kids had eaten for one hr and had not finish and I am getting impatient, I will tell them to hurry up, cos it is almost 7pm, n they have homework to do. They need to sleep by 9pm. My mil will come n tell them, ‘eat slowly, eat slowly, never mind’ … My blood is boiling, as I need them to finish everything before bedtime.
                    Or if my kids are wearing socks and shoes to prepare to go to school, and the sch bus will be coming, my mil will says ‘wear slowly, don’t rush, slowly, slowly’… Even I hinted and said that the bus is coming… She will still continue the same words…

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                      popireis
                      last edited by

                      Haha sounds more like my mum than my MIL 😛

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                      • janet88J Offline
                        janet88
                        last edited by

                        Everything also 慢慢吃,慢慢穿,慢慢做. How come in laws love to sing opposite tune? We have to rush kids to eat fast, so as to get homework done and then go to bed. If everything 慢慢, then sure to stretch into midnight and nothing is done.

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