My wife’s mother is driving me crazy and I sound awful if I bring it up because she is sick and getting feeble.
My wife and I had a great first few years living in a city away from all relatives, but then she wanted to move home because her mother was a widow and lonely, so we moved to her town, into her house and built a granny flat.
I am very sorry we did this. My mother-in-law is a snob, self-centred and never misses an opportunity to put me down. She has favourites in the family, and my wife is the current choice. She talks about the others as if they were imbeciles. When I walk into the room, she sighs and rolls her eyes, and I have overheard her saying to her friends on the phone that her daughter married beneath her.
The problem is that my wife is beginning to treat me in the same way. She has become dismissive of me and I feel I have no comeback because maybe she is right. My business took a huge hit in the recession, and my mother-in-law is paying for the kids’ schools, our insurance and so on. I am so angry and on edge all the time and I am even dreaming of terrible things happening to my wife and my mother. I wake up ashamed and trudge through another day of pretending that I see an end to this misery.
Source:irishtimes
