In-laws... and strategies to deal with them.

Mirch · July 22, 2009, 6:58pm

Dont give your husband the silent treatment, maintain the strong bond you have with him. Dont let MIL ruin your relationship.

Try this for a week:

Call your MIL before she calls you, call her in the morning when shes having chai, then after half an hour, call her again. All day long keep calling her. And do what she does, ask questions left right and centre. “oh what did you have for breakfast? bijli hai ya nahi? abhi aap kia karengi? FIL ney nashta kar lia? kia naashta kia, aap ne banaya? etc etc” And if she ignores a topic, keep asking her questions about that topic, so she gets irritated and would want to hang up and ignore you, lol.

Switch off your mobile, or break it. Dont carry one.

Irritate your BIL like hell, very subtly. Start vacuuming when he’s watching tv, then tell him, oh im pregnant i cant vacum, can you please clean up this mess. Make a mess somewhere beforehand.

When BIL is sleeping, go to the kitchen and make some juice, start that blender, juicer, anything thats noisy. Throw some pots, make some noise while cooking. Make this a routine, disturb his peace, he’ll move out in no time.

I admit you are a genius.