Bake her some cupcakes and lace them with laxatives. She sounds a right cow!I totally relate to point 5, except for me it's not the Mother in Law, it's the sister in law! My other halfs older sister is one of those people who has to know everything about everyone, and has an opinion on absolutely everything. She says what she wants and she doesn't care who she hurts, but god forbid anyone does it to her. I won't stand up to her because I know how nasty she can get so I don't see it as worth it. instead I just go silent. I think the worst thing she ever said to me (after she had fallen out with my partner) was "If you've got any plans for your life you can wave goodbye to them now cos my brother has no intentions of going anywhere with his life" (not true, my other half owns a successful business) "and you'll never ever be a Mother so enjoy seeing everyone elses" - she knows i've had 2 cervical cancer scares and have something called cervical erosion - so she knew that would hurt me! I always think of things afterwards that I could have said to her, but in the moment I seem to freeze and say nothing!