Ok so I just have to vent for a second....my future in-laws came to our new house this week to help us get our old house on the market to sell....well I guess my fiance's mom is under a lot of stress (and going through menopause apparently) and went off on her son while I was in class one night this week! I couldn't get ahold of ANYONE at my house for about 5 hours! When I finally got ahold of my fiance he told me that there had been a fight and his parents went to the old house and that they may leave, but that I would have to wait until I got home from class (at 10:30 at night mind you) to figure out what happened. She apparently went off on him because he doesn't make enough money (because someone who wants to teach kids doesn't make the millions she expects him to make), that he doesn't take good care of himself (because he is a little overweight and at 27 he doesn't weigh as much as he did when he played football in HIGH SCHOOL at 18), that he is a disappointment to her (he is her only child), and that he never calles her.....then she starts crying! He forgave her that night when they came back from the old house to my house. Nobody talked to eachother the next day, and she thought that I would ask her to leave if she talked to me. I probably would have, but my fiance would have said no (at least after it was over). I wasn't mad at her, but more upset about what she said to her son. She said it won't happen again, but for some reason I do not believe that she won't say anything about his weight or his job again. She will call to talk and end up talking about a new diet for him to try....or for him to get lap band....or tell me she found a web posting for a director at a daycare.
Ok I feel a little better. But I know it will keep happening because since he is an only child and the center of her world....she wants him to be the one in the family that makes more money than his cousins....and for me to be the perfect wife who holds down a full time job, and is June Cleaver....and when kids come around for them to be straight A, football playing, baseball playing, (or cheerleading with girls), most popular kid in school. I don't want to be the family that gets showed off....I would just like to be part of the family who doesn't have to have all 6 other families come to see at holidays because we are the "Jones".
I feel even better now. Any suggestions....comments....raints to go with this!