LBL, we need to start our own little support group!!! My husband and I lived with my parents for almost 2 years before we got married, and you know the H3ll I am going through with his family now. I hope things get better for you.
You are a psych major though so you should know about the house wife dominance/martyr thing. It has been her job to care for her family for a long time. She doesn't really want help when she complains, she wants attention. When you began to move in on what has always been her territory she began to feel threatened.This is especially true since she is living there for free and has no where else to go. If she doesn't have this job, she isn't needed, and can easily be replaced (by you).
My advise is to give her plenty of positive reinforcement. Make her feel appreciated. Thank her for doing what she is doing around the house and let her know how much you "need" her even though you don't
Nicely said, PrincessB. You are right. Haha, you are going to be my mentor when I'm getting my therapist license.
The attention thing makes complete sense, and I know she does feel threatened that i'm trying to take her place, which you know I'm not. I just want to be able to be a wife to my husband.

May all things contagious land in her cheerios this sunny morning
rant over
~The only stupid question is the one that remains unasked~
~Niebr~
that's like something out of a bad movie
... too funny. think about it this way, now you'll always have a story about the girl preacher turned indecent propositioner...

really. I have a ton of stupid stories like that. Its insane.
~The only stupid question is the one that remains unasked~
~Niebr~
That's a funny story. I also used to get that question asked a lot.
What do you think she would have done if you said "Yes"?
~The only stupid question is the one that remains unasked~
~Niebr~
So, I have to tell yall that I hate technology right now. First of all, my modem at home stopped working like two days ago. so Last night I unplugged it... let it sit for a few hours, plugged it back in. NADA. Called my ISP, had them send a gazillion refresh signals... zilch. I hit the dang reset button so many times. Nope no internet. All of that made my cable go fuzzy...
fine. I called Comcast last night to get them to send a tech out and they only had a time open from 2:00 to 5:00pm today. okay. My hubby gets home at 2:30 so I thought it'd be fine. NO!! Do you know that tech showed up at 2!!! when the he!! do they ever show up on time? so anyway, by the time hubby got home, the tech had already left. So i had to call and reschedule for Saturday since that's when someone can be home (that speaks English) so they can tend to the tech, so no interenet until Saturday which sucks because I have online classes. So right now I'm sitting at Starbucks.
Another rant. Yesterday the power went out at work in the middle of me working on my computer. Yay! I got the day off. ......
When I got to work this morning, my computer had crashed. I got... "the blue screen!" Since we don't have an IT guy at work, I was forced to do system recovery to get my computer working. I lost four years of files.... no, the computer wasn't backed up.... so much work and saved stuff.


Houston, TX
It's my husband's house, not hers. We pay for it. Unfortunately, MIL and SIL won't move out because they have a free place to live in. So in order to get them to leave, husband and I have to MOVE out, and then they obvsiouly can't afford the rent so they will move out. ya know? I'll make sure they don't follow us. It's a complicated situation that I got myself into and then raelized what I did six months after.