Daughters-in-Law Can They Get Any Worse?

By Rikilynn Thompson

This book is a second of two books about horrible and idiotic daughters-in-law. These are not jokes, these unfortunately are true stories about terrible mothering and stupid things they say and do. We are sick and tired of hearing jokes about Mothers-in-law and this book shows that the reason many of us may be disillusioned with our daughter-in-law is totally substantiated. This book contains several continuing sagas started in the first book “Daughters-in-Law Why Can’t We Pick Them,” many more and longer stories and one totally heart wrenching story. I feel badly for all the children raised by these mothers, if you can call what they do ‘mothering.’

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rikilynn Thompson
• Release date: Oct 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301256853

Rikilynn Thompson

"DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW Why Can't We Pick Them?" is my first book. I've written several newspaper and magazine articles and website articles, but my long time dream was to write a book. I decided to start with one on a subject I feel very strongly about, my daughter-in-law and how I wish I could have choosen a better one for my son. Talking with many other mother's actually made me realize I was not alone in feeling this way. Maybe next time will be better! Keep on reading!

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DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW

Can They Get Any Worse?

A Sequel to

DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW

Why Can’t We Pick Them?

Book 2 in the Daughters-in-Law Series

By Rikilynn Thompson

Published by Rikilynn Thompson

Copyright 2012 Rikilynn Thompson

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This book cover was illustrated by a wonderful artist friend of mine who wishes to remain anonymous. This is probably due to the fact that I had to ask her to dumb down her sketches to fit more with the cover on my first book, which I did. She has a hard time dumbing down any of her art. If I dumbed down my artwork, if you can call it art, I’d have a stick figure. Many thanks, my dear friend!

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DEDICATION:

I would like to dedicate this book to my wonderful husband. We’ve known each other for 44 years and have been married for 35 years. He’s been beside me through thick and thin, for better and worse. We never thought the worse part would be our son’s choice of spouses.

PRELUDE

I had such wonderful reactions and comments to my first book Daughters-in-Law, Why Can’t We Pick Them, that I decided to write a sequel. This time around, I’ve had several mothers ask if they could contribute stories about their step-daughters-in-law and even step-daughters, since, in a way, they are somewhat the same. So that opened up a virtual can of worms for some mothers. They realize they are not the biological mother of their sons even though many have raised these young men from youth, but they love them just the same as if they were their own. They don’t want to see their husband’s sons be taken advantage of. Other husbands that were around at the time that we were talking said they didn’t appreciate their daughters or daughters-in-law disrespecting their wife. Three cheers to you men! The majority of these stories are still about daughters-in-law, but I just had to add several snippets about the step-son’s unfortunate choices as well.

Again, no names are given, and these stories will be written as they were told to me, so will be told in the first person. I will, however, add a comment of my own at the end of several of the snippets. I’ve been known not to keep my mouth shut if I have an opinion.

I received the following note on my old blog site, which is no longer running.

Maybe a more productive use of your time would be trying to work things out with your daughters-in-law and accepting them for who they are. No one will ever be good enough in our eyes for our sons, but they are the ones our children will choose... and if we did a good job and our children are smart, kind, and decent, they probably have pretty good judgment when it comes to choosing a life mate. End of comment. I will keep the name of the blogger confidential.

I really appreciate any and all comments. My husband and I tried so very hard the first several years to welcome our daughters-in-law into the family. For one that said she'd had a tough time growing up, we listened to her woes about her upbringing and problems with her family. We tried to give her the love and family life she seemed so desperately to want/need, but she shunned any advice SHE ASKED US FOR or maybe she only heard the parts she wanted to hear. Neither my husband nor I believe in giving unasked for advice to our daughters-in-law. One of our sons is very close to us and we could tell from early into their first year of marriage that he was not happy. He wouldn't admit it to us or himself until just recently. No one wants to see their loved ones unhappy!

Our other son has been pulled away to the other side and seems to be controlled by her family. Our daughter-in-law’s mother is a very strong-willed and controlling person. She has even tried to keep our grandchild from spending any time with us. Whenever she finds out that we will be visiting, she just happens to show up at the same time. We've accepted this. We are not trying to compete with anyone. We just want our sons happy. This son does seem happy. So that is good. We know our daughter-in-law doesn't like us and it doesn't bother us. I didn't write this book as a How to Get Along with Your Daughter-In-Law guide, but instead to show that the mother-in-law should not always be seen as the bad guy.

No matter how we raised our sons and we believe we did a very good job at raising them, we know it's not always their brain that controls their actions when starting into a relationship. Before they come to their senses, they find themselves married with children. We do the best we can with the lot we're served now.

So, as you read this, hopefully you can look at your own daughter-in-law and say, Thank God I have a normal one! because my husband and I can't bring ourselves to that point now and I doubt it ever will happen.

If you read my first book, you may notice that some of these snippets are continuing sagas. There are several longer stories in here than in the first one also. The first part of this book will be about daughters-in-law married to biological children and the second part will be covering the step-daughters-in-law and some step-daughters. Enjoy and Keep on Reading!

Rikilynn

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When our son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter were at our house visiting for a couple of days, after they all left to run an errand, I was walking down the hall to the bedroom they were staying in and found a capsule (pill) on the floor. Our granddaughter is only three years old. When they got home, I asked our daughter-in-law if the capsule was one of her medications. She said it was. When I told her I found it on the floor, she became very defensive, saying she always keeps them in the bottles and there was no way she could have dropped it. Then she took it out of my hand and put it in her pants pocket. That shoots holes in her statement that she ALWAYS keeps them in their bottles.

The next morning after they left to run another errand before going home, we went to take the sheets off the bed to wash. I looked down on the floor beside the bed and found another capsule on the floor. I set it on top of their duffel bag that was sitting in the front hall along with a note saying Again? When they returned, I said that for someone who always keeps her medication in the bottles, she certainly seems to drop them around the house a lot. I asked if this occurred at home. She said No! but we find that very hard to believe since it happened twice within twenty-four hours at our house. I asked her if this one possibly fell out of her pants pocket when she took them off the night before. She said that she’d put the pill back in the bottle right away after we gave it to her the day before. I guess my husband and I were seeing things when we saw her put it in her pocket!

We told her that their daughter could have just as easily have found that capsule and put it into her mouth. Our daughter-in-law is on some very serious medications, so if our granddaughter swallowed one it could have very dire consequences.

Our son told us that she complained about us all the way home saying that it was our fault and we were trying to make her look like a bad mother. I don’t understand how it can be our fault except for the fact that we found them on the floor. Yes, I’ll take the blame for finding them, but I certainly didn’t drop them. She doesn’t need anyone’s help to make her look like a bad mother; she’s doing a great job of that all by herself!

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Our son and daughter-in-law are legally separated. Our granddaughter lives with our son (thank goodness)! They live in the same town, however, and our daughter-in-law is allowed to visit her daughter whenever she’d like. Our son called his wife a week before mother’s day to see if she would like to spend the day with their daughter. She said, No, I volunteered to work a double shift both days that weekend. He asked why, because their daughter had a little something for her she’d made in school. She said I’ve never been able to do anything special with her on past mother’s day, why should this year be any different.

The reason she’d never done anything special in the past was that SHE didn’t want to do anything then, either. Just one of many reasons why our son is raising their child!

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In my first book, I wrote about a daughter-in-law who called her in-laws home hostile because all the walls in their home were in an eggshell (off-white) color. Her in-laws preferred that color and used furniture, accent pieces and artwork to bring color to the home. Plus, they moved often and realtors said that buyers prefer beige and off-white colors because homes that have bold colors in the rooms make the buyers concentrate more