So this morning I’m switching laundry — got my clothes out of the dryer and headed back to my room. My room is right next to the bathroom, and there’s a little side table in that hallway. I accidentally bumped it and a small picture frame fell.
No big deal, right? I planned to pick it up after I put my laundry down on the bed. But before I could, MIL runs over like it’s a full‑on emergency and grabs the frame. I ignored it and went to put towels into the dryer.
On my way back, she’s pushing the table closer to the sofa for some reason. She says something I don’t understand, so I ignore her again — and that’s when she decides to call me stupid.
I turn around (because I was closing the curtain we have in the hall) and she walks right up to me and calls me a “stupid bh.”*
I just laughed and said, “Oh, thank you! I’m happy to be a stupid b*h,” and closed the curtain.
All this… over a picture frame I was about to pick up anyway. 🙃
Edited: yeah she only speaks Spanish. Im not fluent but I understand enough and I read body language and pick up que words to understand what’s going on
Side note: The wild part? The picture she freaked out over is literally of me, my husband, her, and her husband at the zoo when they came to visit us in Florida. Me and my husband worked there at the time, so they got in for free and got a free picture out of it. It’s not even in a real frame — just one of those cheap paper sleeves with a plastic cover.
So yeah… she called me a “stupid b***h” over that. 🙃
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She lives at your house? Why?
She sounds lovely. /s
Laughter really is the best response to verbal tantrums. Never give them the reaction they want.
Immediate, no. I would tell her you won’t be disrespected that way in the moment and your husband also needs to address it. If you live with her, you need to move.
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You could always adopt a southern US phrase as your go to response. A sickly sweet “bless your heart, aren’t you just the nicest!” said with a smile conveys exactly what you mean and yet you can’t be accused of being nasty to her.
Sounds like it’s time to GTFO there…
Sounds like you should have picked up immediatley what you knocked over….
It’s time to move.
Her son is ok with her talking to you like this?