coolbreeze:

Hi Vinegar,


From your post, I can feel your frustration. Does your husband feel so strongly like you that his mother is driving him up the wall too? If so, than both of you can work together to solve this problem.

If siblings cannot rope in to talk sense into your MIL, how about relatives like her siblings? Or her close friends? Does she like watching dramas on TV? Subscribe mio TV, Starhub, download shows or whatever for her to keep her glue to the TV. What hobbies she has? From these see can diversify into other meaningful uses. Otherwise, tell her to call only between xxhrs to xxhrs. One other option involves your hubby. MIL always call your hubby during office hours, right? So the next time she calls again, your hubby answers it and talk as long as she wants. Then that night, go to her house and tell her a white lie. Tell her that he has been summoned to the boss's office and been told that boss cannot tahan these incoming calls disturbances. Been warned that boss said to his face that he could easily find people to replace him any time. So if that happens, cannot give MIL allowance and will have problem supporting family. Can MIL come out with money to support? However, don't say that her calls are causing problems between the two of you. She may just increase the frequency! Oh dear, I feel very evil now:(

I have a MIL that hardly calls us. Only my hubby calls her every few days.
If my MIL calls, we get very worried cos it is either so-and-so in hospital or so-and-so die already.

great advice, i learnt something today, thanks!