A woman is horrified after her mother-in-law began making unacceptable demands and performing strange gestures ahead of the wedding day – and while some said she should set boundaries, others urged her to run for the hills
A woman has slammed her overbearing mother-in-law for her bizarre behaviour in the run-up to her wedding day.
The bride-to-be said her fiancé’s mum had overstepped her boundaries in a number of ways – including booking the room next to their bridal suite on the night of their wedding because she wanted to be close by and leaving a weird item in her fiancé’s underwear drawer.
Taking to Reddit, she said: “My fiancé and I are getting married in three weeks and as of yesterday I have simply had it with my mother-in-law. I went to visit our wedding venue in March and had expressed my excitement to my mother-in-law about seeing the place and that the honeymoon suite was in a separate cottage with two bridal suites and that we would potentially book both to get ready in and have more privacy.
“I was shocked when the venue coordinator told me she had booked the adjoining suite room, after speaking with her on the phone for 40 minutes – clearly knowing what room it is.”
The woman said she was able to switch the room her mother-in-law was staying in, but the slights didn’t stop there. “I should also mention that she kept asking us to invite more of her friends even though 43 of the 100 guests invited are her friends and family,” the woman said. She also said her mother-in-law had even created issues at her bridal shower.
Just hours before the celebration began, her mother-in-law burst into tears because the woman agreed to pick up and collect her own mum from the airport – with the woman worried this would eat into their bonding time.
“I was very nice, but again it was all of her friends and I knew less than half of the people there,” she said. “My mother was flying up from South Carolina and it would be the last time I saw her until the wedding. My mom doesn’t travel solo often so I wanted to pick her up and drop her off at the airport to give her piece [sic] of mind and could spend some time together before the busy weekend.
“Had I known the drama that would follow I would have never agreed to the shower at all. My mother-in-law called up my fiancé crying because I wanted to pick up my mother from the airport. I was speechless. I then agreed to only drop her off which sent her more into a spiral.”
But nothing could have prepared her for what she found stashed away in her room when she was unpacking her bags when her mother-in-law came to spend the weekend at the couple’s new apartment. She said: “I found a picture of my fiancé’s deceased grandparents very neatly placed in his underwear drawer! I was speechless. I sent a photo in a group chat to my mother-in-law and my fiancé and she confirmed that she had just put it there after it *fell out* from her purse.
“Not only was this just a bizarre move, she had clearly gone through our personal belongings and violated our personal space.”
While most people urged the woman to limit contact with her mother-in-law, others slammed her husband-to-be for not reigning in his mum. One user said: “This is not good. You are correct in setting boundaries but I believe your partner needs to have a serious conversation about her overstepping. What’s going to happen when you have kids and she wants to be the third parent?”
Another said: “Oh dear god… this is a way bigger problem than you might realize. He will likely never change this behaviour. This will be your life… forever. You won’t have any boundaries. You will continue to be harassed and bullied.”
