Yes, some mothers are very overprotective to their sons. I dont know why this is...but it sure is weird..and never very good for their sons. Maybe its a selfish act on the mothers part.

I have 3 sons, but am not a mother in law yet so I can't say if it is overprotective or jealousy. My husband is the baby in his family and I always thought his mother was overprotective when we first got married. She had to check up on him - as if I couldn't take care of him. Now, I think it is just jealousy because he pays more attention to his family (me and the kids) than he does to her.

Oh, my wifes sister is really bad. She and her sons wife got along great until the wedding. BAM! No more. I think she is jealous. She was number one all those years and suddenly, in the blink of an eye, she is number 2. She doesn't like it. Nothing that poor girl does is right by her.

I had a MIL who didn't think I took care of her son correctly. She was annoying and I eventually stopped talking to her. Never once did she ask if I had ever agreed to clean up after, do the laundry, and cook for her son. I didn't agree to that. In fact, I stipulated that I would never do those things before I ever went on my first date with him.

My realtionship changed drastically after I said I do with my mother-in-law. I think is it part jealuosy, part control, and the rest fear of losing their son. You just have to bite the bullet. Marriage is very hard and unfortunally, this is a issue that ends many marriages, so proceed with caution, and remeber that you married him not his mother. In additon the man needs to realize that he is now married and his wife is #1, and he needs to be able to make that clear to his family and also make his wife feel like she is #1 at all times. Like I said Marriage is work... a fulltime job.

i am having a baby due in 6 weeks, i aint married to my partner but his mother talks as if my baby is hers and that i dont no what i am doing she is making my life hell causing arguements between me and my partner, he thinks its me, he cant see that its his mum being over protective and jealous she just wont let him stand on his own 2 feet! i told him i could never marry him as i feel that there are 3 ppl in this relationship, me, him and his mum and i feel that it is always me versus him and his mum.

I am a mother-in-law, and I would like to speak up on the other side, if I may. I have had to become a second mother to my son's wife, because he left her. I'm sorry to say, he could not handle being responsible for a wife and children. I have spent the last 15 years helping her pick up the pieces, and helping to raise my three grandsons. Not all MIL's are monsters. I am sorry some of you have had the short end of the straw.

i hate my motherinlaw she is a control freak and jealous. if me and my husband are having a conversation she always has to butt in or try to divert his attention to herself, so annoying. she tries to tell me when to cook how to cook how to clean when she is practically unable to do things probably herself. and after i got married i found out she swears and talks to herself she is sooooo wiered i think she has some sort of mental illness, i'v heard her on many occasions swearing about people once she even swear about me and she thought i wasnt at home but i heard everything. shes mad. i told my husband and apparently she's been doing it for years, something he happened to forget to tell me before we got married. she's a psycho i'm living in a mental home it feels like !!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh i feel like to run away because i also have problems with me husband he is volient towards me and loses his temper over small trivel issues i dont know how much i will be able to tolerate i'm only 26, i think i might give it a year and if things dont get better i'm gonna leave cuz i cant handle it anymore i just want a peaceful life, is that too much to ask !!!

My ex was way too close to his mom... and even would give her money to pay her bills (because she has a shopping addiction) when we didn't have enough to pay our own bills. This was after we had our own place... before that we lived with her for two years more than the couple of months I was promised when I moved in. She never gave us privacy, she always had to have the apartment her way even though we all three paid our parts, and she had an annoying habit of coming into our bedroom and moving furniture and things around, changing the sheets, etc. She always wanted to sit next to him on the sofa and always touched him... on the arm or leg or even smacks on the butt. It was creepy. Sometimes, I would even catch her staring lovingly at her son like he was the king of the world and the love of her life. It's my own fault for not leaving sooner, it was an unhappy relationship and he was not right for me. Eventually I snapped out of my madness. I sent him packing and back to his mommy he went. As far as I know, he's still with her. LOL!

my mother in law is trying to destroy my marriage. she didn't like something that i did so now she is planting things in my husband's head. things like how i am going to leave and take everything and the kids and he will never see them again. or that he is the giver and i am the taker in the relationship. all of this is untrue but he is siding with her and i am not sure how to handle the problems. it scares me to think that i would be MUCH happier with her out of my life. especially since i feel like it is 2 against one.

Yes, some are very over protective over their sons. It is not jealousy, it is just that they cant move on to the next step, of their children becoming adults. Some dont know anything other than nurturing. My ex, was a major Mama's boy, it was hard at first, but me and my mother-in-law, discussed it many times, and she eventually, let go somewhat.

Sometimes I think the mothers just want what's/who's best (in their own minds) for their sons. But alot of them go way too far and end up being intrusive and controling.

Oh This is just like Hyena!(unfortunately my grandmother). My father is her youngest child and son (out of six) and she always thought he was innocent and all that. (though I have a half brother from one of his one night stands whom I never met because she refuses to accept him as grandson). She absolutely hates my mother, and hates my brother and I because we're just like her (personality wise- we stand up for ourselves, and doesn't let anyone talk crap about us-even our family). Eventually after 20 years of her bull crap, my father finally cut her off after she accused me of lying and making her cry (which she did not, Satan never cries. AND I told her to back off because she needs money for a 'trip' to another country and does the debt card on her own son though she knows we are in a tight spot). Her jealously at my mother and her own son's children finally got her hurt in the end. Not like it affected me or my brother- she loved our cousins who stole money, bleeds her dry, and curses at her more than us. Never even called for our birthdays or gave us presents, hell she doesn't even know our ages. So Yes. Some Mother-In-Laws are overprotective, but after a while they lessen the treatment- or until they loose their son and his family all together.

Yes some are very overprotective. After my husband and I got married - my MIL called him and asked "ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" I guess she was worried that the big bad new wife wasn't being nice enough to her baby.

I can't say for all mother-in-laws, but mine definitely has had some jealousy issues. She has always had to come first to my husband and have him always side with her.

I think that Mother in Laws are jealous and should move on in there own lives like there son is moving on.

Yes, this is particularly disturbing when the man is in his mid 40s! Yet, I digress.....

my man mother took him away from 2weeks ago she didn"t want to be bothered with him she saw that i cared about him she called me all kinds of drunk bitches i don"t think that was right his sister put him out and gave all his games away they didn"t invite him to any holiday gatherings came and got him on jan4.2009 she has turned him against me said that he has another women do you think he hates me because i love him and his mother and sister is jealous of me because i have a good job and they don"t it"s income tax time and they are just using him.