My mother in law is a scary woman. First off, she’s a raging alcoholic. She had a liver transplant in the late ’80s and she still drinks. This is on top of the fistfuls of medication she has to take.
Shortly before my husband and I married, we drove up to Michigan to visit her and her husband. She was mostly nice until she got drunk. I remember standing in the kitchen, listening as she ranted about me upstairs to him. She said some truly nasty things, and we ended up leaving early. A few letters were exchanged, and she said she was sorry, and things were ok again…
Until she came down to visit us a few years later. We borrowed a mattress from my old bed at my mom’s house to put in our second bedroom, which was an office/library/sewing/art room and not a bedroom at all… but we figured that was better than having her sleep on the couch. She came during my husband’s finals, which meant that he had to spend a lot of time studying and at school, leaving her alone with me. Now we were also very poor at the time…
So she is very nice for the first day or two. She took us out to eat and even came to the club I worked at to see me dance. She gave my husband $25 to get table dances from me and to tip me on stage. Yes this was very strange, but hey. She had a good time and thought the place was fun.
The next night she got really drunk. I had made a big dinner but she was too drunk to eat it. She staggered around, fell into the glass top coffee table, almost breaking it an knocking the glass off. She then started to rant to my husband. I literally hid behind the bed in our bedroom, in the dark, listening… I was too afraid to go out into the living room.
She complained that I was a lousy hostess, that we hadn’t taken her out to eat (we couldn’t afford to) and that we just “stuck her in a room on a mattress” (what, should we have moved to a bigger house for her visit?)...
She called me all sorts of foul names, and told him that he would “never be a man” until he got rid of me… that he wasn’t her son until he got rid of me, etc. We actually got this on audiotape, and sent it to her later. Anyway, she told him to call her a cab and she left in a huff. She actually waited outside for the cab.
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