Mine is a serious whack job. When I first met my wife, she alternated between hating me because I wasn't her religion, and hating me because I was at the time a Republican. Either way, I was the spawn of the devil. She gave my then girlfriend the ultimatum: get rid of him or get out of the house. She got out.
Mom boycotted the wedding; no one from my wife's side of the family attended the wedding, nor sent gifts. How's that for shitty?
Then the evil bitch used emotional blackmail to get my wife to pay her mother back for expenses incurred since she turned 18 and was still living in her parent's house. Amounted to $10k, and despite my numerous and very adamant objections, the wife paid her back. She said she didn't want Mom having anything to hold over her...
Did I mention that the mother-in-law cannot shut up? Constant yapping, sometimes not even rational yammering; just mindless drivel. It only gets worse when "she's nervous", which is ALOT. She actually worried about the missing girl in Aruba, and felt sorry for Micheal Jackson (and was enthralled by the media drama concerning him). I think the woman would die if she couldn't talk for some reason.
I feel sorry for my father-in-law; he's walked over all the time by her. He literally can't get a word in on the evil mother-in-law; she talks so much. No wonder he leaves the battery out of his hearing aid.
I've already told the wife if she decided to move poor old feeble Mom into the house when she needs care, that I'll live in a hotel and she can visit me on weekends...that is if I don't push Mom down a flight of stairs first.