Honestly, the in-laws should be *bringing* dinner, not demanding dinner... A casserole for the oven and one for the freezer.

Yep, change the locks, don't let them in. Gently inform hub of the changes, the BOTH OF YOU need rest, and they were only piling it on, not helping out at all. When HE is well enough to entertain them, HE can invite them, but remember you are his partner, not their maid!

Why aren't the in-laws bringing HER food when they come over?? I don't get it them at all.

the woman is f***ing PREGNAT! - she has to... - Wok so they have money to survive (a pandemic!) - while being pregnant - go groceries shopping for a whole extended family - while being pregnant - clean the house and do laundry multiple times a day - while being pregnant - cook and clean for her Husband, herself and lazy ass family members - while being pregnant - clean after their mess - while being pregnant - entertain an entitled family and not leash out or get angry because it's "disrespectful and agressive" i am sorry but wtf? when you are pregnant you should be spoiled and get all the help you can from your family members and friends... instead she gets stress and more stress to deal with. she even has to fear for her husbands and babies life and all the family in law can do is yell at her because she didn't cook? she should be more concerned about eating more and healthy. a sandwich and a yoghurt are just not enough for a pregnant woman.

The MIL from Hell. Post visiting hours and that's that!

As odd as it may seem, it wouldn't surprise me if this post is not 100% real. I have had 2 mother in laws, one was an angel. The last one, would do, and has done some crazy s**t just like this-stuff that doesn't make sense, stuff so nutty it sounds like I made it up. And I live in the south as well. For example- I used to clean her house for her every Sunday. Like, scrub the shower, toilet, deck scrub the baseboards in every room. I wanted to do this, and ask her if this was ok. She shrugged her shoulders and said, " I guess." Later on, she just stopped talking to me. Ignoring me. Giving me short answers when she had to. One day, FIL sits me down to tell me that MIL says I am too noisy on Sundays, and Sunday is quiet day, and I needed to apologize to her. Speechless. I didn't apologize. I stopped cleaning altogether. Never spoke a word to her about it. Then she complained to FIL, again, who came to me, about" I have never offered to help her around the house."-the mild stuff she did.

"Sorry, I'm not up for entertaining visitors while my husband is so sick. You can come visit when he's well again."

Had you stopped caring for your husband and cooked she would have shamed you for that. Nothing would have pleased your Karen mil. I would have kicked her out too.

I live in the states, in the south too and I'd be telling them help or leave. The audacity of some people. I want to know why the husband and brother in law weren't expected to help either.

Firstly, it seems strange that the husband's family can't be bothered to help to take care of their own sick son/brother, but ok. Even if we pretend they are just some random-ass guests, their behaviour is still unacceptable: if you are visiting uninvited, you don;t get to demand dinner(or anything else for this matter). And if you show up at somebody's house and see that the owner has more important matters to attend to, any reasonable person would figure that now it's probably not the best time for a dinner party and leave.

If they come in, visit their son/brother, who should have limited visits anyway, then whatever, but just hanging around all day and night, that's f*****g rude and they are just deadbeats.

Just don't let in your house. Problem solved.

I feel this occasion was the last straw for OP. I would have done the same. On the other hand, none of my in-laws would have behaved like this. EP or what?!

When my in-laws wanted to emigrate to our country, I was willing to house them short term until they found their own place. They never paid for or contributed anything, and refused to look for a new home. I was 11 weeks pregnant when my daughter was hospitalised and diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. That first night in the hospital I started bleeding and suffered a miscarriage, while watching my daughter fighting for her life. Husband was at home,, didn't see us until the next day when our daughter was put onto a ventilator and transported to the Amsterdam University hospital and admitted to the pediatric ICU. She was discharged the day before her 6th birthday. I'd lost our second child, I was shattered, and we came home to a house in chaos. No-one had cleaned, done laundry, loaded the dishwasher, done ANYTHING. I was so angry that I gave my husband an ultimatum: either his parents get out, or my daughter and I leave. I'd put up with their hellish behaviour for 14 months; they finally moved out the month after my daughter was discharged from hospital. My MIL was the catalyst in the ending of my marriage; we split up 5 years later,. My daughter is healthy, and I'm so proud of the young woman she's become. MIL lives alone, far away from her only son and her only grandchild (who she rejected because my daughter is gay) FIL died a few years ago. They both got the life they deserved.

Set visiting hours (that don't include dinner time) and make them stick to it.

What horrible people! They shoud be doing whatever they can to help, not having expectatons to be waited on by their pregnant, overburdened daughter-in-law. What is wrong with them?

They sound like no southern women I've ever met

She's right about the dinner and lack of help but wrong to have brought up "looking after the MIL's son", she's looking after HER husband...

Soo silly. I don’t understand how these people get walked all over then cry wolf. Obviously kick those selfish aholes to the curb.

Clearly MIL is horrible, but it's better to set boundaries rather than waiting for a blow up. I see that a lot on these reddit regurgitations. They were in the right, but handle it badly and become the "bad guy"

offs tell you mil /bil that 1950s called looking for them then move on

You can be a guest and expeted to be treated like one - but then you show up no more than once a week for a few hours, max. Or you pop in every other day for an hour and a cup of tea. Camping there with the full family for days on end AND expect everythign handed to you is insane. Who would get such an idea? What are they even doing there, every day, if they just sit around??

You go girl good for you for standing up for yourself. You don't owe these spongers anything what a lovely family your poor husband has keep them out and only allow them set visitation after calling to see if it's ok for them to come over you have enough to deal with I wish you well and your wee baby when it arrives.

Now I know this story has to be fake. Anyone who has dealt with an adult throwing up knows how gross and draining it can be. If the MIL heard her son tossing his cookies and impassively remained ON THE COUCH and later asked her DIL' WHERE'S DINNER', she deserves an immediate and proper beatdown. You have to be a new breed of monster to even hint at that request.

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I wish BP would quit posting these kind of stories. Obviously she is being treated poorly. But using the internet for validation is really doing much more than letting her tell herself she's in the right. And that isn't resolving anything. I don't know if anyone that would be "oh, the web says your right so I will change my bad behavior". She needs to get this resolved within her own family or move along and leave a bunch of strangers out of their personal affairs.