So my husband's parents have been living in my husband's house long before husband and I got married. They don't work and they also have their names on the title even though they never paid any mortgage bills except maybe the first 5 years, but for over 25 years my husband paid all the bills. Anyhow, I am 26 and got married 3 years ago but have only now been living with my husband and his family for an extended period (I am a student and was at an out of state college before now). Anyhow, my mother in law is driving me crazy. I am studying for a major test for over 10 hours a day and she just makes the living environment so stressful. Just yesterday, I forgot to take the lint out of they dryer's lint filter and she took it out and saved the lint and waited all day until I came downstairs to show me the lint and talked to me condescendingly. At first I stayed quiet and my husband nicely told her that it's ok we just forgot and we will try our best to remember and then an hour later I decided to let her know that next time tell me things directly instead of waiting all day and saving evidence but she still acted like we are so wrong. I don't have time or energy to have tension over small things, why is she doing this? I've also gained 15 lbs. And she even patted my stomach the one rare time I ever ate her food. Another time we were all going to go somewhere and I was in a hurry and had minor wrinkles on my shirt and she made me feel bad about that in the car saying it looks bad
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