What do you ladies do when your MIL ignores you and won't talk to you

generic · Mar 19, 2014

enjoy the silence for sometime..

KaviPriyaNew · Mar 19, 2014

its really a gift if MIL ignored and doesn't talk, I am also enjoying it don't ever try to talk with her. even if I reply to her when she starts talking she behaves as if she is a GOD Who has forgiven me for my wrong doing and begin torture right away.... so never want to talk to her in my life time.

DGcreative · Mar 19, 2014

I did that too & enjoyed for quite some time. But my MILs shrewdness takes new heights everytime....She declared herself sick & has stopped going out of house for quite some time now. Its a new pain to have her around ALL the time.

Metamorphic · Mar 19, 2014

what do you ladies do when your MIL ignores you and won't talk to you
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Ignore the fact that she is ignoring you ...

amnilakshmi · Mar 20, 2014

I would be happy if she doesnt talk to me !

anuram09 · Mar 20, 2014

I will party as much as I can, in front of her to show my happiness.

blessed · Mar 20, 2014

This has happened to me more than 1000 times in 18 years of my married life... first I was very very uncomfortable but later learnt to ignore and then on enjoying every moment when she is not in talking terms... Thanks to the invention of MOBILES which came to me as a boon, Even when Iam cooking I would happily be talking and laughing with my sibblings, MOM and friends.. this use to irritate her to the core and would crib with my FIL as to who is paying my mobile bills ideasmiley .

Just show her that you are least affected by her "Mute mode" and even she wants to end her drama and start talking to you, you don't be normal with her just answer in singular like No or Yes.. hmm etc show her also that you were equally annoyed.

heron · Mar 20, 2014

I do..arty...

or may be I am being too harsh...just let her be,cant do anything better than that

sunshine1970 · Mar 20, 2014

Hi Blessed you give the best advice. I too am firm this time I won't approach to talk to her, because this is getting ridiculous. She will not talk or look at me when visitors come, but its ok cause I giggle and chit chat with them with a big smile on my face. If she does decide to talk to me again, I will only answer yes/no and nothing more, I am sick of these games she wants to play and refuse to play them. Let her be miserable if she chooses to.

cheenu123 · Mar 21, 2014

Dear OP,

In the initial months of marriage, I used to get so disturbed when she would avoid me due to any or many reasons. You wont believe that she would wait for her DS to ask her that why was she quiet. immediately the hell would break lose and she would cry inconsolably. But gradually I started avoiding all this. I would continue with my daily chores.

But I have learnt a lesson as well. If MIL and DIL are living under the same roof, no matter how hard the DIL tries to convince herself that Ok, this is so cool that we are not talking, there will come a point when you would feel suffocated if the cold war continues for way too long.

Hence, to ensure that I am at peace with myself, many a times, I take an indirect lead and try to break the ice.