My mother-in-law has been treating holidays like a COMPETITION… I’m done! | Reddit Stories
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🗓️ 13 July 2025
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| 0:20.8 | My mother-in-law has been treating holidays like a competition. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm done. |
| 0:25.4 | It's a competition and I shall win. |
| 0:27.4 | Mother-in-law has always been crazy about holidays. |
| 0:30.1 | All three adult children need to be there. |
| 0:32.6 | For a while, especially Christmas, husband and I tried to do every other year approach. |
| 0:37.1 | Example, one year we would do his family the next year with mine. My parents were more than happy with that. Mother-in-law was not. She'd do stuff like, come over for just half an hour and then keep us hostage there for hours. By the way, this comes from Cactus Plant Lady, and if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R-slash-O-K Storytime, Separate it. So, keep in mind, husband is an absolute coward as well and does not fight back. The first vid Christmas, we told her that we would not be going anywhere. We would be staying home, as you were supposed to. Not to my parents or his parents. She was having none of that and called us to negotiate all day long. |
| 1:12.6 | I am not joking. |
| 1:13.8 | It was from morning until evening. |
| 1:15.9 | She said, who cares about the quarantine rules? |
| 1:18.7 | Break them for me. |
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