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MIL Realizes She Messed With The Wrong Person When Son’s Wife Gets Back For Committing Crimes Against Her
If there’s a group of people who consistently manage to push our buttons, it’s family. However, one woman recently made a post on Reddit where she swore that it would be difficult to find a worse relative than her husband’s adoptive mother, even if you tried. She briefly described all the ways the lady attempted to break them up and mentioned they had moved across the country just to escape her. The woman worked hard to leave everything in the past, but when an unexpected opportunity arose to prevent the lady from getting a promotion, she went all in.
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According to a study from 2021, the “monster-in-law” may be a product of evolutionary wiring.
Researchers found that 44% of people reported more conflict with their mothers-in-law than with their own mothers, primarily over financial resources and child care.
“This genetic conflict may cause affines (in-laws) to disagree about the distribution of resources and investment, just as we see mothers and fathers disagreeing in these domains,” the study authors wrote.
They also noted that these conflicts are likely heightened because in-laws “do not choose to have relationships with one another” but are thrown together as “unintended consequences” of their children’s romantic entanglements.
Another study found that when daughters-in-law have problems with their mothers-in-law, they believe that:
- Their mother-in-law is closer to another child-in-law than to them.
- Their mother-in-law is interfering in their marital relationship.
- They cannot speak directly to their mother-in-law about important matters (implying that their spouse does the communicating).
- Their mother-in-law is withholding.
- Their mother-in-law makes them feel anxious.
- They and their mother-in-law have different parenting philosophies.
“One key takeaway from our research is that the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law’s relationship should be viewed in the context of other relationships in the family. These include other in-laws who have married into the family … as well as the mother-in-law’s son or daughter, the spouse of the daughter-in-law,” one of its authors wrote.
“With the daughter-in-law and her spouse communicating to the mother-in-law directly, as well as with the daughter-in-law feeling comfortable speaking directly, a boundary may be drawn around the couple’s relationship which may help clarify some of the ambiguity.”
This time, however, the problems were far more serious.
People have had a lot to say about the whole ordeal
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Shark Lady 5 days ago
The downside of the UK in this situation is that it's a small country. There are ways and means to hide, did it myself for a while, but it's much harder now because just about everything is digital. One thing the police can do is install a panic alarm that when activated has an immediate police response. Hopefully, since this was five years ago, the family are safe and haven't been bothered by Susan.
Dragon Ashes 4 days ago
I was thinking about that myself. In the US when you say you've moved across the country that's thousands of miles. In the UK it's like moving across a state. Not nearly far enough.
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Binky Melnik 5 days ago (edited)
Susan has that in common with karma; she sounds like a mega-b***h herself. And I simply don’t understand people who believe they have the authority to say “No one’s allergic to [substance].” Unless they have a degree in immunology, they haven’t the first clue what they’re talking about and are willing to endanger peoples’ lives with their ignorance. I don’t get it. I myself have said “I’ve never heard of a [substance] allergy before,” but I certainly have no authority to say it can’t be an allergy! There’re millions of things I don’t know; it seems a lotta people think there’s nothing they DON’T know!
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David 5 days ago
i'm skeptical. Anyone being considered for a Department Head position is already a tenured professor, they can't threaten to fire a tenured professor like this person's story claims the dean will do. You need to go through tenure revocation committees, have hearings, etc. It can take over a year
K Barnes 5 days ago
An email was sent from the dean to all of this prof's students saying she was being considered for promotion and they wanted to hear from them? No, that's not at all how that works. Nor would the dean give all those details about the upcoming meeting, such as if she yells she'll be fired instead of having the option to resign or that she won't get a reference. Hard to imagine a dean of any university being this incompetent and violating privacy and ethics rules this severely. Seems like OP might have embellished the story a bit.
Mike F 5 days ago
Like the lion's share of the story perhaps? This reads like it would make a fantastic Hallmark movie, the end being the birth of a healthy baby and Susan reading about it in a prison cell.
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Lee Gilliland 5 days ago
I'm skeptical about this one. There is such a thing as tenure, but that's not applicable here? This also happened too quickly (restraining orders take a bit, ditto moving) and that Dean was way too revealing.
Kit Black 5 days ago
So the uncle didn't want to divorce her.After he had to take an epipen away from her so that it could be administered to Op, but now that she's getting fired he'll divorce her? Add all the HUGE HR violations the dean was committing, and the fact that the UK is actually harsher on this... excellent case of creative writing
Beady El 5 days ago
Did BP really censor "crushed" (when she was talking about black pepper) ????
Jane Doe 5 days ago
They've been censoring c r a c k e d, because the algorithm is insane. Crack = d**g; c r a c k = d r u g
Load More Replies... Pandaodboredem22 4 days ago
So maybe this depends on the jurisdiction. My wife looked into a restraining order against her father for some legitimate issues that it would have hopefully? been granted. She found out ot was only a civil infraction if the RO was broken (meaning he couldn't be arrested, only taken to court after the fact), and the crux of the matter is it had to be spelled out where all he could NOT be- so we would have had to given him our address, and my stepdaughters school address. And my wife would have had to to testify in court about the a***e she received.
Livingwithcfs 4 days ago
It's very scary to think this couple needed to run and hide to that extent. If they are that scared then they definitely need to pursue this legally, if nothing else court records can be called up if she does anything else
Mark Childers 4 days ago
I don't trust crazy. If someone had done all of that to me and made it clear it was only the beginning, I would have changed my name in addition to moving and the rest. But I also would have pressed charges against her for all of it.
Shark Lady 5 days ago
The downside of the UK in this situation is that it's a small country. There are ways and means to hide, did it myself for a while, but it's much harder now because just about everything is digital. One thing the police can do is install a panic alarm that when activated has an immediate police response. Hopefully, since this was five years ago, the family are safe and haven't been bothered by Susan.
Dragon Ashes 4 days ago
I was thinking about that myself. In the US when you say you've moved across the country that's thousands of miles. In the UK it's like moving across a state. Not nearly far enough.
Load More Replies... Binky Melnik 5 days ago (edited)
Susan has that in common with karma; she sounds like a mega-b***h herself. And I simply don’t understand people who believe they have the authority to say “No one’s allergic to [substance].” Unless they have a degree in immunology, they haven’t the first clue what they’re talking about and are willing to endanger peoples’ lives with their ignorance. I don’t get it. I myself have said “I’ve never heard of a [substance] allergy before,” but I certainly have no authority to say it can’t be an allergy! There’re millions of things I don’t know; it seems a lotta people think there’s nothing they DON’T know!
Load More Replies... David 5 days ago
i'm skeptical. Anyone being considered for a Department Head position is already a tenured professor, they can't threaten to fire a tenured professor like this person's story claims the dean will do. You need to go through tenure revocation committees, have hearings, etc. It can take over a year
K Barnes 5 days ago
An email was sent from the dean to all of this prof's students saying she was being considered for promotion and they wanted to hear from them? No, that's not at all how that works. Nor would the dean give all those details about the upcoming meeting, such as if she yells she'll be fired instead of having the option to resign or that she won't get a reference. Hard to imagine a dean of any university being this incompetent and violating privacy and ethics rules this severely. Seems like OP might have embellished the story a bit.
Mike F 5 days ago
Like the lion's share of the story perhaps? This reads like it would make a fantastic Hallmark movie, the end being the birth of a healthy baby and Susan reading about it in a prison cell.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 5 days ago
I'm skeptical about this one. There is such a thing as tenure, but that's not applicable here? This also happened too quickly (restraining orders take a bit, ditto moving) and that Dean was way too revealing.
Kit Black 5 days ago
So the uncle didn't want to divorce her.After he had to take an epipen away from her so that it could be administered to Op, but now that she's getting fired he'll divorce her? Add all the HUGE HR violations the dean was committing, and the fact that the UK is actually harsher on this... excellent case of creative writing
Beady El 5 days ago
Did BP really censor "crushed" (when she was talking about black pepper) ????
Jane Doe 5 days ago
They've been censoring c r a c k e d, because the algorithm is insane. Crack = d**g; c r a c k = d r u g
Load More Replies... Pandaodboredem22 4 days ago
So maybe this depends on the jurisdiction. My wife looked into a restraining order against her father for some legitimate issues that it would have hopefully? been granted. She found out ot was only a civil infraction if the RO was broken (meaning he couldn't be arrested, only taken to court after the fact), and the crux of the matter is it had to be spelled out where all he could NOT be- so we would have had to given him our address, and my stepdaughters school address. And my wife would have had to to testify in court about the a***e she received.
Livingwithcfs 4 days ago
It's very scary to think this couple needed to run and hide to that extent. If they are that scared then they definitely need to pursue this legally, if nothing else court records can be called up if she does anything else
Mark Childers 4 days ago
I don't trust crazy. If someone had done all of that to me and made it clear it was only the beginning, I would have changed my name in addition to moving and the rest. But I also would have pressed charges against her for all of it.
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