Hello everybody just an update on the crazy saas (my poor poor baji).
Today my brother-in-law went to work and my baji was not feeling so she told her saas she was going to lie down. Saas said, "pehle ghar ka kaam karte hain."
Toh Baji made the kaana, and cleaned and jo bhi hai and went to lie down.
5 minutes before my brother-in-law came home the saas picked up a washcloth adn sat down on the kitchen floor and pretended to clean. Obviously her son wlaks in and sees his mom scrubbing the floor and he got really mad at baji.
Does anyone else have a chalaak saas like this??// It's crazy. I was going to go visit my baji but now i m tooooo scared. Everyone has made good suggestions and baji has tried them all like
1) lock the door---husband gets mad
2)avoid husband--- saas feeds beta posion against bahu
3) discuss with the husband-- he doesnt care
4) stop fulfilling husbands needs in bed---- husband didnt say anything
We are running out of ideas..Please koi new idea
Hi Mahiya,
Here is my idea:
Tell your baji to realize that its HER husband, HER marriage, HER home, HER daughter, HER kitchen, HER food and HER life that her MIL is trying to steal. Then, tell her to not to get mad...get even. This is how:
Hubby must have a schedule, right? When he leaves for work and when he comes back? It seems as if the MIL knows it very well.
When hubby wake up to go to the office, tell baji to go to the kitchen and get busy making a BIG breakfast for her MIL. Then, as soon as he leaves, drop it.
When she makes food for the family and her hubby is there, make a production of it and give her MIL extra special treatment in front of him. Let him see it all.
If hubby asks questions about this change in behaviour, simply say she realizes her husband was right and wants to make sure she supports him because she cares for him.
Now, behind his back is where it gets tricky. She has to change her attitude and stop being scared of this burdiya. If she was a nice woman, I wouldnt say this. But she is mistreating this poor girl and destroying her marriage and family. I mean, COME ON...she cant have sex with her husband when she wants to???!!! Your baji needs to regain control of her home. Tell her to start banging pots and pans in the kitchen when she is in there and hubby is not home. Tell her to stop paying attention to her MIL altogether and do whatever she wants when hubby is not home.
Then, when he is about to come home, baji needs to start running around like she has been taking care of MIL ALL DAY LONG. When they are alone, she needs to talk about her MIL and when they go to bed, tell her to talk about her MIL. "Im so tired, I was taking care of ammi and baby all day aur ammi ki koi ghalti nahin hai lekin mein kabhi kabhar thakjati hoon". In front of him, she has to go out of her way to be nice to her MIL. "Ammi ko naraz nahin karna hai, ammi ne khana nahin khaya, ammi ki tabiyat kaisi hai, ammi ko kuch chahiye hai, ammi sahi se sogayein" etc etc etc.
The second and very crucial part to this: She needs to take care of herself more. He is a man at the end of the day and he needs to know what he is missing. Tell her to dress up, look nice, take care of her appearance and then get super busy doing things for his mother. That will not only make him miss her but he will soon start relating the lack of intimacy with his mother.
I know its evil of me to say this but it works. Agar MIL ko sukoon se rehna hota aur vo apni bahu ko pyar se raktien to koi problem hi nahin hai. Lekin jab aap shaadi karke apni bahu khud leke ayeen hein to usko tang karna achi baat nahin hai. These MIL forget that DIL are now their own daughters...an extension of their own family. They forget how alienated girls can feel so far away from their own parents and support system.
A lot of people might not agree with this tactic but its tried and tested in my family. My little sister's MIL has three sons but she loves torturing my sister because she is young, naive and way too nice. We did this with my sister (her MIL did the SAME EXACT things) and guess what ladies? MIL was flying to Texas in less then a month to see her daughter AND she hasnt been back since! :)