Is Your Mother (or Mother In-Law) a Control Freak?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Is Your Mother (or Mother In-Law) a Control Freak?

Posted: 3/21/2006 10:32:41 AM EDT

My mother almost 74 years old. Ever since I can remember, she always corrected me the way I behave while, at the same time, give out demands (instead of polite requests) such as "Go get dee box ober dere!" or "Bacuum the lee-bing room!" rather than with a nice request like "Will you please get the box over there?" or "Will you please vacuum the living room?". If you're wondering why the first two examples is written that way is because I'm explaining how she demands things with her thick Filipino accent. My mother just likes to demand and be controlling.

Do you any of you folks have a mom who's a control freak?

Posted: 3/21/2006 10:34:19 AM EDT

[#1]

Mom used to be, has mellowed in the last ten years. MIL is not.

Posted: 3/21/2006 10:35:15 AM EDT

[#2]

Nope, my MIL is great. She's coming in town on Friday and I'm looking forward to. She hangs out with me and watches movies while I clean guns!

Posted: 3/21/2006 10:35:37 AM EDT

[#3]

HOLY SHIT my soon-to-be-mother-in-law is a complete psychopath, nice lady, just looses her mind when she isn't in control.

Posted: 3/21/2006 10:36:14 AM EDT

[#4]

mom not so much.
grandma was a bitch.

Posted: 3/21/2006 10:36:19 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Mom used to be, has mellowed in the last ten years. MIL is not.

I feel comfortable with my MIL because she's more sensitive about people's feelings.

Posted: 3/21/2006 10:36:58 AM EDT

[#6]

MIL tries to be. She gets her way with the males on the NY side of the family. She tried that crap on a Tennessee boy and found out it doesn't work.
Now she just barely tolerates me. I like it that way. She leaves me alone when we go to visit the wifes kin.

Posted: 3/21/2006 10:37:27 AM EDT

[#7]

MIL doesnt speak english, so we are good.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:10:57 AM EDT

[#8]

My mother still tries to be. Nothing like 100 miles distance to put a stop to that crap.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:36:56 AM EDT

[#9]

My mother used to try but gave up after I was like 16 or 17 yrs old... tells me I'm stubborn as a goat like daddy. Still she loves me and I would do anything for her.

My MIL is great. She treats me like one of her own kid and is a great person. However, when it comes to my boy (her first grandchild) she takes over everything and we get instructed on everything. Still, she a great person and I would do anything for her.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:38:40 AM EDT

[#10]

My mom says I have to go now.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:39:28 AM EDT

[#11]

My mom is not that way but my MIL is. My wife is becoming more like her mother too which is scary.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:40:04 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
HOLY SHIT my soon-to-be-mother-in-law is a complete psychopath, nice lady, just looses her mind when she isn't in control.

Danger will robinson Danger

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:40:23 AM EDT

[#13]

Can this forum handle a one option poll of just yes?z

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:45:12 AM EDT

[#14]

My MIL is dead so its not an issue. But even when she was alive she was a nice person.

My mother is a saint.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:47:39 AM EDT

[#15]

My FORMER Mother-in-Law is a dictator who tells her husband and adult children what to do. She used to give me orders all the time also although I rarely obeyed her largeness.

The last time I spoke with her was in a phone conversation in which I referred to her using the "F" word and the "C" word. Apparently that got her attention. She never spoke to me after that.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:48:10 AM EDT

[#16]

My MIL looks at me as merely the vessel who brought her grandchildren. She's civil, I'm civil.

My mother is simply a freak. She used to be relatively normal. She recently married an arrogant passive- agressive holier than thou prick of the highest order. And she's done very well converting herself into his perfect wife.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:53:38 AM EDT

[#17]

My mom has never been a control freak, and my MIL thinks that I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. I guess I'm just lucky.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:53:43 AM EDT

[#18]

my mother is most definately a control freak. Shes already told me that she is going to revoke my inheritance once I enlist and that i'll be on my own. Told me she wouldn't even write me a letter.

Oh well, my sister and the Army are the only family I'll need.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:58:41 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
my mother is most definately a control freak. Shes already told me that she is going to revoke my inheritance once I enlist and that i'll be on my own. Told me she wouldn't even write me a letter.

Oh well, my sister and the Army are the only family I'll need.

Holy crap. That just sucks.

Posted: 3/21/2006 11:59:51 AM EDT

[#20]

My mother mellowed out significantly once I got a little older and proved I could handle myself.
Before that she was a little uptight, but maybe thats what happens when she raises two boys

She was and still is a saint, even though we don't always agree on everything.

Posted: 3/21/2006 12:01:35 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Holy crap. That just sucks.

Meh, it was either take over my pops company and have my moms/dads blessings or the Army.

What can I say, I don't like working in an office.

Posted: 3/21/2006 12:04:18 PM EDT

[#22]

Keep the MIL on another continent and you have no MIL problems.

Posted: 3/21/2006 12:07:54 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Keep the MIL on another continent and you have no MIL problems.

That reminds me of the thread where someone mentioned they had a job offer in France. We forgot to list the above as a positive.

Posted: 3/21/2006 12:10:56 PM EDT

[#24]

nope.... they know that i am my own man and make my own decisions. guilt trips have no effect on me either

Posted: 3/21/2006 1:13:35 PM EDT

[#25]

HOLY SHIT my soon-to-be-mother-in-law is a complete psychopath, nice lady, just looses her mind when she isn't in control.

I see you're dating my girlfriend as well, guess we'll have to fight now.

My mom is great, can't say the same about my girlfriend's...

Posted: 3/21/2006 1:16:22 PM EDT

[#26]

Unggoy ka!

Posted: 3/21/2006 1:21:37 PM EDT

[#27]

My mother is very much a control freak. Unfortunately for her, so is my husband. She came to visit for a month a couple of years ago (I moved from London to NY and she still tried control long-distance style) and try as she might, she couldn't get past him. She resorted to throwing a drunken tantrum out on our back deck, just sat out there sobbing and screaming. Rather embarrassing.

I had to get cancer to get her off my back. She never calls me now.

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