Hi all, I am new here. Wow…so many stories about problems with MIL. After reading all the problems u have, I think mine is considered not too bad.


I was staying with my MIL for 2 years plus when I first got married. Thank God she is working and I don’t get to see her often but her bad habits and weird behaviour really gets to me. But I really just kept my mouth shut and kept my cool as it was her house and not mine.

Just to share some of her weird habits and behaviour:

1) Laundry - She would do her laundry and after the wash is over. She can leave it in the machine for at least half a day up to a day before taking it out. She does not hang up her clothes or spread out the clothes to dry. She will just dump the whole load of laundry onto the clothes rack (still crumpled up) and leave it there. She will never keep away the clothes that are dry as she treats the rack like her wardrobe. During the time I stay with her, I have to help take all the clothes and leave it in her room. And oh, she throws her underwear into the laundry.

2) She leaves her used sanitary pad in the toilet and will not throw it away sometimes up to 3 days.

3) She will keep leftover food in the pot and leave it on the stove. She might sometimes put the whole pot into the fridge but she forgets all about it and the food will all turn bad. It happens all the time. I called her the microbiologist.

4) She, sometimes, like to leave certain food in the sink and claims that it will give off a nice smell…e.g. Chrysanthemum flowers

5) She cooks and dirty the stove but forget and accused me of not cleaning up. Hmm…i had not used the stove for that week when it happened.

6) Whenever I do any cooking, I will always clean up, in fact cleaner than before I did the cooking. And in that time I stayed with her, never once did I leave a mess. I once was careless and there was a small spot on the floor that I missed. Oh gosh, she was so sarcastic and ask me to go look at what is that on the floor despite the fact that, that was the only time it ever happened.

7) She told my hubby to tell me not to leave tissues on the table because there was once I forgot and left a piece of tissue on the table. Mind you, it was just that one time. But she leaves all the cotton wool and cotton buds all on the table.

She once bought a shoe rack for us to keep our shoes. She bought one that was made if wire like those dish racks kind. It has only 2 shelves but it does not have legs and is therefore not elevated. So if you put your heels in the bottom shelf, the heel touches the floor. Oh, by the way, she bought it because she complains that it was very messy. Then when I put my shoes and my husband shoes on the rack, she said I used up all the space. But it was only enough to fit 6 pairs of shoes. So I removed all my shoes and put it back into my room.

9) She wraps only a towel around her body to shower and she does that even though there are males that she does not know very well in the house.

I have since moved away but she is recently staying temporary with me and it is driving me nuts that she is very inconsiderate. She took my newly washed bath towel and put it into my clothe hangers’ container. Left the lights on and the fan on and did not switch it off…