When you marry someone, you aren’t just committing to them; it means you are embracing their entire family as yours. Or at least you try to navigate these new relationships with a positive attitude. And sure, there are moments filled with love and laughter, but there are times that make you question what you have gotten yourself into.
Whether your in-laws choose to be helpful or just make life difficult depends on a lot of different factors—maybe they adore your personality and are grateful you married their kid, maybe they find you annoying and wish to return the favor – you never know.
Today, the team at Bored Panda has gathered pictures of unhinged things that in-laws do to make life chaotic for couples. Keep scrolling and don’t be surprised if these photos test your patience and make you appreciate your own family more.
#1 My Mother-In-Law Gave Us All COVID. Tested Positive And Never Told Us
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#2 Worst Mother-In-Law I’ve Ever Seen. Wicked Witch Of The Wedding
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#3 It Can’t Just Be The Bride’s Big Day, You Know
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#4 Mother-In-Law Hires Someone To Throw Red Paint On Bride’s Dress
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#5 Choosing Beggar Shames Her Daughter-In-Law For Using A Gift Card She Gave Her To Make A Blanket For Them
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#6 My Friend Has Been With Her Husband For 12 Years, And Her Mother-In-Law Still Does This On A Regular Basis
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#7 My Wife’s Grandmother Passed Recently. This Is What My Sister-In-Law Allowed Her Son To Wear To The Funeral
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#8 My Mother-In-Law’s Reaction To Us (Me, Girlfriend, And Daughter) Moving To Vegas. And When She Says “My Daughter” She Really Means Mine
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#9 My Sister-In-Law, Who Lives With My Wife And I, Regularly Finishes My Liquor Bottles And Doesn’t Replace Them
My sister-in-law regularly helps herself with my whisky. I don’t mind sharing, but I brought it up several times that if she’s going to drink more than me and finish the bottles, she needs to replace them.
The last time I brought it up, she flat-out lied to my face and said she didn’t do it. (My wife rarely drinks and doesn’t drink whisky). Now, I’m just going to hide my bottles.
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#10 I’m A Financially Struggling Terminal Cancer Patient And This Is What My Mother-In-Law Got Us For Christmas
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#11 My Mother-In-Law Cut My Son’s Hair Without Asking
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#12 I Battled Alcoholism For Years. I Quit Drinking 19 Months Ago. Today I Received This At My In-Laws’ Christmas Party
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#13 My Mother-In-Law Drives Through My Yard
I live on a corner lot that has 2 driveways. She always pulls in off the busy street to the front driveway. Then she can’t be bothered to wait for a break in traffic to back out, so she drives across the lawn to the other driveway.
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#14 Mother-In-Law Won’t Get The Flu Vaccine So She Can Meet Our Newborn Son. Insists She Is An Expert On Vaccines
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#15 My Brother-In-Law Is Living With Us, This Is His Room
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#16 This Mother-In-Law Was A Control Freak
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#17 I’m Finally Ready To Laugh At This Story, So I Figured I Would Share. Mother-In-Law Wore The Dress I Wanted As My Wedding Dress To My Wedding
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#18 When Your Grown Brother-In-Law Doesn’t Want To Clean His Dishes
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#19 Mother-In-Law Leaves The Refrigerator Door Open The Whole Time She Cooks
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#20 My Sister-In-Law Lives With Us And Uses Our Things. This Is How She Leaves My Peloton After Use. She’s Not A Child She’s In Her 30s And Conversations Go In One Ear And Out The Other
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#21 My In-Laws Who Use A Little Off Every Single Roll Of Toilet Paper Instead Of One At A Time
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#22 Mother-In-Law Is Against Letting Us Get Milk For Her Grandchild. We Live With Her And She Set Schedules For Us To Use The Kitchen
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#23 My Sister Got Married And Her Mother-In-Law Decided To Get A Bigger Wedding Cake Than Our Mom’s Self-Made. It’s Not The Biggest Drama, But It Overshadowed The Ceremony
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#24 That’s Weird. My Car Comes With These Attached To Little Straps
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#25 My Mother-In-Law Told Me That She Had A Bottle Of Children’s Tylenol When There Was A Shortage. I Looked At The Package While At Her House Today. It Expired 22 Years Ago
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#26 Mother-In-Law Steals Hair Stylist, So The Bride Has To Do Her Own
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#27 My Mother-In-Law Parked On My Rain-Soaked Grass, Then Spun Tires Relentlessly Trying To Get Out. What The Hell
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#28 My Brother-In-Law Decided To Cook Up Some Steaks On My Grill But Forgot To Pull It Out
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#29 My Mother-In-Law Always Adjusts All Our Hanging Pictures When She Visits. Always Makes Them Crooked
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#30 This Is How My Brother-In-Law Left The Kitchen Sink When I Got Home
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#31 My In-Laws Are Monsters
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#32 My Mother-In-Law Started The Dishwasher For Us When We Were Away. She Used Dish Soap
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#33 A Friend’s Father-In-Law Got Heated After Attempting To Initiate An Argument On Facebook. After Trying To Be Civil And Avoid Participating, He Got Even More Frustrated And Sent This
The argument was about US politics. Differing opinions on political correctness. But there was no argument, there were just one-sided insults directed at my friend.
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#34 The Way My Girlfriend’s Brother And Sister-In-Law Maintain Their Tube Of Toothpaste
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#35 Mother-In-Law Sterilized My Daughter’s Bottles In A Pot Of Boiling Water… And Forgot About It
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#36 When Your Mother-In-Law Makes A Surprise Visit And Stays For A Month
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#37 Oh God, Why? My In-Laws Do This With Every Carton Of Milk
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#38 Strange Things My Mother-In-Law Do
Someone posted a few days ago about passive-aggressive things in-laws do while at your house. So I thought I’d share the life-sized fireplace my Mother-in-law stuck to our wall where she thinks something is lacking. Excuse the brown wallpaper, it came with the house!
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#39 Mother-In-Law Melted Kettle I’ve Had For 15 Years To The Stove. How Do I Get It Off?
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#40 My Mother-In-Law Picked My First Strawberry
I have been very carefully watching my first ever strawberry that I grew from seed. My mother-in-law was watching my kiddo this afternoon and picked it early and ate it. I am irrationally upset. I know there will be others soon but I had really been looking forward to enjoying the literal fruits of my labor.
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#41 Apparently The Stove Is So Dirty It’s Going To Give My Mother-In-Law A Staph Infection
Just before anyone asks, I did not touch or clean the stove from the point when she said it was so dirty it might kill her, I’m just so done with this woman y’all.
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#42 My Wonderful Mother-In-Law, Karen
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#43 My Infuriating In-Laws (Those Were Clean Dishes)
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#44 Twinning Bride And Mother-In-Law
It’s been said you can’t outshine an Indian bride (true) but there are SOME rules to follow like maybe, don’t wear a bridal lehenga like your new daughter-in-law.
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#45 Where My Mother-In-Law Left My Toddler’s Uneaten Banana
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#46 My Sister-In-Law Cuts From The Middle Of Dishes
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#47 How My Mother-In-Law Loads The Dishwasher
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#48 My Sister-In-Law Put My Electric Moka On The Stove
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#49 Stuck In A Parking Space Because My Brother-In-Law Set His Tesla To Do A Software Update At 10:30 PM
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#50 My Almost Mother-In-Law Just Showed Me The Dress She Will Be Wearing To My Wedding In Two Months
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