Take my Mother-in-law...There's a reason there are so many bad jokes about mothers-in-law. You don't choose them, they just come along as emotional baggage with your object of affection. I'm lucky, my m-i-l is lovely*, but don't let that put you off telling us how mad your in-laws really are.
*No, really
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chthonic, Thu 8 Sep 2005, 9:48)
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victorian mother-in-lawin the dark victorian days of no husbands in the room to give comfort, no soothing music and no goddam drugs, my great grandmother lay exhausted after 48 hours in labour with my grandmother.
the door creaked and my great grandmother turned her head feebly as her mother-in-law entered the room to see her new grandchild.
my tiny grandmother, a new born baby, lay in her cot and waved her starfish fingers up at her audience.
"well," the mother-in-law sniffed tartly, turning to her daughter-in-law in the bed. "i think we'll soon be hearing the poor little thing is better off where it's gone."
charming! and, given that my grandma recently celebrated her 80th birthday not withstanding world war 2 and a serious alcohol addiction, also v inaccurate!!
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rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 13 Sep 2005, 19:37,
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