My Mother-in-law has gone totally mad!

@Zorrogirl (1502)
South Africa
September 29, 2007 4:17am CST
i found out last night from various people that my MIL is still bashing my good name in town. she is planning to contact child protection services on me. she tells everybody that i abuse my daughter. i have never laid a hand on my child. i never needed to. and i promote non spanking parenthood. the sick woman. what should i do? her words are spreading like wildfires!
6 responses
@mistissa (1349)
• Netherlands
29 Sep 07
The first thing you should do is confront her with it. Seond of all where is your husband in all this, I presume it is his mother you are taking about? Maybe he could go talk with her and tell her to stop doing it. Good luck
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@lucky_witch (2707)
• Philippines
18 Oct 07
Well, she is sick really. I guess you should talk to your husband and tell him that you just cant ignore a woman who is making such false stories about you. You have to protect yourself and your credibility because of what would other think about you. And for sure this would affect your child. You just cant et her insult your dignity.
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@nannacroc (4049)
29 Sep 07
This is a terrible situation and I really wouldn't know what to advise for the best. The only advice I can give is something my parents passed on to me, as hard as it will be, say nice things about your mother in law, try to return unpleasantness with a pleasant thing. I'm sure you have good friends who can support you. Be confident in yourself and don't allow this woman to affect your relationship with your daughter. Good luck.
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@phayeth (519)
• Philippines
29 Sep 07
well, ur hobby should understand also that his mother is making stories about u that are not true... he should be at ur side.. and he should be worried about u.. co'z its his mother who is trying to ruin ur name
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• Philippines
30 Sep 07
oh sweety i'm sorry to hear that your mother in law is messing up with you..why is she doing that to you? maybe you should confront her about this and how you feel about it..then you also tell your husband about it so he can talk to his mother and tell her that she's not doing the right thing..if she has a problem with you then just talk it over..doesn't she know that kids aren't supposed to get involve with this?..if people don't know you they might think that your really doing the thing and might call protection services and take away your daughter..if she wont listen and stop doing this to you..report her to the cops..maybe they can resolve the issue for you and they would know she's just messing up with you..
@CatClaws (115)
• United States
20 Oct 07
Hi, I am so sorry that you are having to deal with this abuse from you mother-in-law. I don't think confronting her is going to do any good. When she started spreading the lies about you, she had to of known that it would eventually get back to you so I don't think confronting her about is going to do any good. I don't know what the laws are in South Africa, but here you can file a police report on her for harassment and slander. And I don't know how the cps works there either but here if someone turns in someone to cps for child abuse and the cps investigates and finds no evidence of any abuse ever happening to the child(ren), then the person who made the allegations can be put in jail. I would definitly find out if there was anything that the police could do to help you. I will be praying for you and your family.