MIL loves knitting and texting me... whyyy?? (But yes, it’s really a DH...
Hi DWIL! Been reading for awhile, first post. BG: I don’t have the greatest relationship with ILs, but we are cordial and pre-pandemic saw them every few months once we moved within a few hour car...
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My MIL is terrible. On our wedding day, I caught her texting a friend about my “piece of *** mother”. Since then, I can’t stand anything she does. I still play nice so as not to make things more...
View ArticleNo contact? Inlaws
*edited* Okay so I want to know has anyone did the no contact, does it make a peaceful marriage or did it make things worse, did anyone divorce over inlaws or did the no contact make things much...
View ArticleRe-establish Contact After 5 Years and a Death
There's a lot of background here, spanning 15+ years. I'll try to work backwards and not be too long. Where things stand now, my father passed away a month ago. I hadn't spoken to him in 3 years, and...
View ArticleDealing with brother and SIL
Hey there! I don’t post so often, but I have been needing help lately. Background: I left my stbx ten months ago, my boy was 3 and a half years and my baby girl was 6 months old. I stayed at my mom’s...
View ArticlePhotos of CO people *Triggers* pg11, 15, 21, 24, 27, 30, 32!!!41, 54, 60, 63,...
NOTICE: It’s been 3 years since I started this thread. I don’t need advice on the original post. Don’t HIPPO 3 years worth of pages and updates just to give me your thoughts on my picture problem. Read...
View ArticleHow to enforce cut off and any other advice
Long time lurker for occasional advice. Hoped I wouldn’t have to post here and the situation would resolve itself. It didn’t, so here I am. BG: FIL is probably a narcissist and is totally a master...
View ArticleSIL Violating Boundaries
Hi all! We CO SIL and BIL almost 18 mos ago after terribly narcissistic and abusive behavior. We are 1 month out from the birth of our 1st LO. We did not tell SIL but she congratulated DH when she...
View ArticleMIL wants my wedding ring returned to her
I am really struggling right now and don’t know how to feel or think. My mother-in-law asked my husband to give my wedding ring back to her. I’m so hurt. And my husband didn’t understand why that would...
View ArticleEnforcing Boundaries Resources
I tried an unsuccessful search, but am wondering if any of you have resources on how to reinforce boundaries and what an escalation process should look like? I've only found generic "how to make...
View ArticleAm i the villain?
I will give a few examples of my relationship with my inlaws. I have been with Dh since 2012. We got engaged in 2015 and was told by his eldest sister we are moving too fast and he shouldn't marry me...
View ArticleReally strange comments from FIL
My SIL and I had our babies 5 months apart, both boys. The first time FIL met our baby he commented that he has BIL’s eye color. I said I have blue eyes and DH has hazel blue-green as well, so I’m sure...
View ArticleNo contact? Inlaws
*edited* Okay so I want to know has anyone did the no contact, does it make a peaceful marriage or did it make things worse, did anyone divorce over inlaws or did the no contact make things much...
View ArticleGroup owner
I made a post the other day that you had said wasn’t applicable for this board and shut down. In that case can you remove it please so I can post elsewhere. There isn’t a need for it to be archived and...
View ArticleIf kids ask about CO relatives.
As the title says, how do you go about explaining CO relatives to children? I have lurked on here for years and know you guys always have great and empowering advice that always puts the kids first, so...
View ArticleHow should I approach this?
So a little background, my in laws are extremely manipulative, misogynistic people. They raised my husband in a way to fear them without any boundaries and demand their respect no matter what. It’s...
View ArticleMIL loves knitting and texting me... whyyy?? (But yes, it’s really a DH...
Hi DWIL! Been reading for awhile, first post. BG: I don’t have the greatest relationship with ILs, but we are cordial and pre-pandemic saw them every few months once we moved within a few hour car...
View ArticleSeparation/reconciliation and now in-laws and boundaries
New name, but not new. I apologize this is going to be long and jumbled while I give some background. Thank you for whoever hangs in there. My husband and I (mid/late 40’s) have been together nearly 2...
View ArticleHow to let go?
My partner and have had a Rocky relationship, we were casually dating when I got pregnant by accident(birth control fail). Neither of us had planned or wanted children and if I did I wouldn’t of chose...
View ArticleMy husband is verbally abusive in front of the kids
My husband are I have been fighting for a long time about my in laws and each time we fight my husband calls me horrible things like cunt/bitch in front of our kids (7 months and 5 years old). During...
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