Late fiancee's mother
We never officially married because we were waiting for the cancer to pass, but her mother was quite a piece of work.

Both our mothers were, and both our mothers were against their four (each) kids shacking up before marriage, which all our siblings already had. Long before we reluctantly did (Chicago rents when we moved), both our moms asked us why we weren't living together yet. . .

I think the MIL liked me -- I got money for b-days and still get cards/emails. But she was a right b*tch to her eldest daughter, who may have been the reason her folks married (born a short time later). There were always subtle insults, even in front of my family. Nothing was good enough, but the younger sister, who resembled mom, and the younger brother, who likewise did, got better treatment than the fiancee and older brother, who resembled their late father (wish I'd met him -- seemed like a nice guy from the stories I heard).

Apparently. mom fought comstantly with dad but went into revisionist history after he died -- suddenly put up all kinds of pictures of him but had none when he was alive,went on about how happy they were.

After her daughter dies, MIL and her bachelor brother come to get some of the fiancee's things. The MIL starts going on about how fiancee resembled her father when it came to bad money judgement (she resembled her dad a lot -- thank god).

MIL then proceeds to get insulting about him (dead five years) and her (gone two weeks), going on about how stupid they were and how they left her and I with nothing (he left a railroad pension, a house he built himself and four kids; she left me $50,000 in insurance and lots of memories). Se keeps getting nastier and nastier, just short of foul language.

As they were leaving for their hotel, I whispered to the uncle that if she didn't stop denigrating the two deceased. . .

She shut up the next day -- always did like the uncle.
(ChiTown Guy Dating when 35+: sane, single, attractive - pick 2, Sat 10 Sep 2005, 9:12, Reply)