Do your inlaws drive you crazy?!?

I was actually blessed to have an awesome Mother In Law and when it comes to her grandkids, well she has about 10 so she doesn't really buy anything for anyone unless they need it. So I guess at Christmas it is fair, she just doesn't buy any of em a gift. As for my own parents they pay more attention to my nephews than my daughter but only because they act horrible. My parents are so caught up in my brothers problems that they never have enough time or energy to come see my daughter. I guess it's a good thing, means my daughter is being raised right. I wouldn't let them get to you, maybe your in laws spend more on the others because they are less off than you and your husband, it is very rude of them though to rub it in your faces. If they're not going to pay any attention to your son then don't pay any attention to them either.

They all drives me crazy.....but i like my mother-in-law a little,

she the only 1 tht asks me if i m ok or if i hv anything i would like to talk about.

talk to them

My MIL and FIL are alright, and I did have a good relationship with them, and tried to keep a good relationship with them for the sake of two of their granddaughters, and for the fact that they helped me through an extremely trying time in my life. Two years ago (this coming June), I had been through a flood and lost just about everything. When they realized that I didn't have a home to go back to, they took me in for awhile, offered emotional support to myself and tried to keep my kids' minds off of that scary time in their lives. My husband was deployed overseas at the time, which made things much harder..to this day I'm amazed that we're all still in one piece as a family.

However when my husband came home from his deployment things began to change. Him and my FIL were always at each other's throats, my FIL kept saying one thing when he completely meant the opposite and it was becoming stressful. We finally found a house to rent, but my BIL decided it would be best if he shared the expenses with us. Mind you..my BIL and I don't like each other, but there was nothing more we could do. I was beginning to get annoyed with my husband and FIL with their drama, and we needed to move out.

After we moved to this place, things were ok for awhile. I stayed out of BIL's way and he stayed out of my way...until he knew my kids were in the wrong. He started talking crap about how I was a bad parent, and that I needed to be reported to CPS...for what? My kids being kids and doing what they're going to do? He even went as far as telling my ILs on me like a little brat. Ok when his girls came for visitation and they did something wrong, how dare me tell my BIL that his kids needed discipline. Did I run to Mommy and Daddy to complain? No. After sooo many threats with my BIL calling CPS, I just laughed in his face and told him to go F himself.

He also seems to think that he has this 'holier than thou' attitude because he has a job that pays good money. After awhile things began to get bad. I noticed that he began to buy expensive things for himself and my nieces instead of helping out with food, bills and rent. It got so bad that we got behind on rent because my husband and I were the ones that tried catching up on bills and providing food. Sure we had jobs, but that little stipend from my BIL wasn't getting taken care of. I went to my ILs and told them the situation, but they kind of just blew me off telling me my husband and I were irresponsible...blah blah blah.

Eventually everything just fell apart. I was summoned to court for an eviction hearing, However I had no idea I recieved that until my landlord and a sherriff showed up on our doorstep. The first thing I was asked was why I didn't attend the hearing....I was completely lost. It just so happened that my BIL was there, and he just non-chalantly went to his room and grabbed the summons. Of course the sherriff chewed my BIL's butt out, but did that stop us from getting evicted? NO. After we were told to have our belongings removed in the next 36 hours, the sherriff and landlord left. No sooner they left my BIL just tore into me. I'm standing there completely in shock while he started cussing and swearing at me, telling me that my husband knew about the summons and that he wanted to leave me, my kids were going to get taken away, to go to Hell, and that he hopes that I die. So he again calls his mommy telling her that I caused this, and pointed his finger at me. Finally I stepped in and told her it was just a bunch of BS. Of course she didn't believe me, and my husband was just standing there saying nothing. It turns out my kids could stay at my IL's house while I stayed in one hotel, and my husband in another. I wasn't speaking to him because I was angry for not standing up for our family. It was pure murder because I love my kids and my husband with everything that I have, but it seemed like nobody was there for me.

I finally told my mom about our desparate situation, and she decided to take us in. However, I wasn't going to just up and leave my family in an unstable environment. I had to prove to myself and my ILs that we were a family no matter what and we will NEVER be broken apart. I convinced my husband that this will be a better life for us if we just moved away from the family that never had faith in us to begin with. And because of what my BIL did to us, I wanted to move as far away as we could because I was out for blood...literally. Now that we've moved to my home state 800 miles from where we were, life couldn't be any better. We're still a family, and we're all happy for once.

Because my ILs weren't very supportive of our incident, I really don't speak to them. But for our daughters' sakes we still let them talk to their grandparents. I really do miss the relationship we had, but they just couldn't take the fact that they're always going to favor their one son.