Well, she's not my MIL yet, but someday......Anyway. My MIL left her husband a year ago (but hasn't filed for divorce yet), lost all self control, bought a house, two cars, THOUSANDS of dollars worth of furniture and household items, and lots of other things. I understood that somewhat because her husband was a jerk and didn't even let her buy movies. She had a lot of money saved up, but has to be all gone by now.
Fast forward to this spring. We all live in Iowa, in the same town actually, and she has a friend down in Texas that set her up with her brother, recently divorced. She took a month off work to go spend time with this guy and comes back. Then about 3 weeks ago we get together for lunch (her, son, daughter, my SO, and me) and she tells us she's engaged.
We say "What?! J*** proposed to you!"
She says "No D*** proposed to me."
Us, "Who the
is D**?!"
"Oh J*** cheated on me and we broke up."
"So how long have you known D**?"
"Not very long"
"Ok...."
So we find out her fiance is comming up to meet us (he's also from Texas), which was last week. We meet the guy and he's GROSS. He looks like a hillbilly who does drugs, and smokes 3 packs a day. She can do WAY better! She even had a porch full of gifts for him when he got there! As the week progresses we find out from my SO's younger siblings (16 and 17) that she met him on the internet (GREAT). So my SO asks his mom some questions she tried sidestepping a lot of the questions, but here's the short version:
"When did you met this guy, mom?"
"Well we met on the internet about 2 weeks ago"
"So you JUST met him this week when he came up!"
"Yeah, but we talked a lot on the phone and internet"
So she met the guy on the internet agreed to an engagement WITHOUT ever meeting him in person after TWO weeks of talking to him, AND she had her friends from Texas, with a 3 year old daughter, pick up this complete stranger and drive all the way to Iowa with them.
WHAT THE
was she thinking!!!!! To put her friends in danger like that! On top of it all, she met him for the first time on Sunday and they slept in the same bed THAT night! SICK!!!! SICK!!!! SICK!!!!
To conclude the story.....She has a meeting with her kids, I was invited but I declinded because I'm so upset about everything. She tells her kids that this guy is great and she likes him so much and she's happy with him. She also says that he "used" to do meth, has been to jail for beating people up, and he has full custody of his granddaughter because his daugther is a worthless druggy. She told us all that she's moving to Texas in the next few years. She also told her kids that she doesn't care what they think of her fiance because they aren't going to ruin her life. !!!!!
I am SOOOOO upset right now..... She's a complete moron.
Fast forward to this spring. We all live in Iowa, in the same town actually, and she has a friend down in Texas that set her up with her brother, recently divorced. She took a month off work to go spend time with this guy and comes back. Then about 3 weeks ago we get together for lunch (her, son, daughter, my SO, and me) and she tells us she's engaged.
We say "What?! J*** proposed to you!"
She says "No D*** proposed to me."
Us, "Who the
"Oh J*** cheated on me and we broke up."
"So how long have you known D**?"
"Not very long"
"Ok...."
So we find out her fiance is comming up to meet us (he's also from Texas), which was last week. We meet the guy and he's GROSS. He looks like a hillbilly who does drugs, and smokes 3 packs a day. She can do WAY better! She even had a porch full of gifts for him when he got there! As the week progresses we find out from my SO's younger siblings (16 and 17) that she met him on the internet (GREAT). So my SO asks his mom some questions she tried sidestepping a lot of the questions, but here's the short version:
"When did you met this guy, mom?"
"Well we met on the internet about 2 weeks ago"
"So you JUST met him this week when he came up!"
"Yeah, but we talked a lot on the phone and internet"
So she met the guy on the internet agreed to an engagement WITHOUT ever meeting him in person after TWO weeks of talking to him, AND she had her friends from Texas, with a 3 year old daughter, pick up this complete stranger and drive all the way to Iowa with them.
To conclude the story.....She has a meeting with her kids, I was invited but I declinded because I'm so upset about everything. She tells her kids that this guy is great and she likes him so much and she's happy with him. She also says that he "used" to do meth, has been to jail for beating people up, and he has full custody of his granddaughter because his daugther is a worthless druggy. She told us all that she's moving to Texas in the next few years. She also told her kids that she doesn't care what they think of her fiance because they aren't going to ruin her life. !!!!!
I am SOOOOO upset right now..... She's a complete moron.