9 Mothers-In-Law from Hell

The Mother-in-Law Who Attempted to Hire a
Hitman to Kill Her Son's Wife

Do you think your mother-in-law is bad? At least she didn't try to kill you.
In 2013, a 70-year-old Florida grandmother was accused of hiring a hitman
to murder her daughter-in-law. Diana Reaves Costarakis reportedly told an
undercover agent that if he didn't kill the woman, she would do it herself.

Florida police say that Costarakis claimed her son's wife was a drunk who was
planning on leaving him and taking their child to Colorado. Angela Costarakis
denies those allegations and said she had no idea her mother-in-law had it
out for her. About three weeks before the incident, Angela said her
mom-in-law gave her a hug and told her, “I'm so glad we're great friends.”

Costarakis supposedly offered the undercover cop a $5,000 bounty.
She was charged with criminal solicitation for conspiring with the
officer at a Home Depot. Costarakis paid him $1,500 in cash and
allegedly said he could take the jewelry off of the woman's dead body
for the rest of the bounty. (Source)

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The Mother-in-Law Who Enslaved Her
Sons' Wives for 13 years

According to court hearings, a cruel mother-in-law in England treated her
sons' wives like "slaves and dogs," making one of them work day and night
on a sewing machine. Naseebah Bibi allegedly ruled her household with a
regimen of beatings and threats as she "totally dominated" the women over
13 years.
The three – Nagina Akhtar, Tazeem Akhtar and Nisbah Akhtar – went to
Britain from Pakistan as part of arranged marriages expecting to live happily
with their husbands. But they were kept prisoner at 63-year-old Bibi's
home in Blackburn, denied access to the outside world and made to
do ‘gruelling work'.
Tazeem, who came to Britain in 2001, found husband Nahim already had a
partner and two children and had no intention of living as her husband.
Her phone calls were monitored, she was allowed to leave the house only
once and was beaten if she refused to work, he added.
Nagina married Bibi's son Fahim but was ordered to spend her time sewing
as soon as she arrived in England in 1993. She was ordered to sew for money
all day, every day. She received no money as Naseebah Bibi took it away. She
had a baby after eight years but Bibi stepped in to look after the youngster so
she could ‘carry on sewing'.
Her third daughter-in-law, Nisbah, moved to the home in 2005 after
she married Nadeem. She was allegedly banned from using the phone and
beaten up.
Their ordeal ended in 2006 when Nagina's son told nursery staff that his
grandmother hurt his mother. (Source)

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The Mother-in-Law Who Sent a Rude Email
to Her Son's Bride that Went Viral

When her scathing email on etiquette started circling the
globe, stepmother CarolynBourne became known as the world's most famous
monster-in-law.
In 2011, Bourne, 60, wrote to her then future daughter-in-law Heidi Withers
after the bride-to-be spent a weekend at the family's home in Devon. In the
email, Bourne criticizes Withers for her “lack of grace” and calls her “an ideal
candidate for the Ladette to Lady television series,” which sends foul-mouthed
young women to finishing school. “It is high time someone explained to you
about good manners,” she writes. “Yours are obvious by their absence and I
feel sorry for you.”
She goes on to describe Withers' visit as “staggering in its uncouthness,”
and suggests that the 29-year-old woman , who works as a personal
assistant in London, is a gold digger with tastes far above her station.
“I understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the
cost of your wedding,” wrote Bourne, who lives in a five-bedroom,
$800,000 home. “There is nothing wrong with that except that convention
is such that one might presume they would have saved over the years
for their daughters' marriages. If this is the case, it would be most ladylike
and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits
both your incomes.”
A shocked Withers forwarded the character assassination to a group of
girlfriends, who then passed it along to their nearest and dearest acquaintances.
A few days later, excerpts from the email had been broadcast on Britain's
biggest morning news programs, appeared in most of the national newspapers,
and been posted on websitesfrom England to India to Australia.
(The Sun published its take under the amusing headline
“The Mrs. Bourne Ultimatum.”) More than a few online posts dubbed
Bourne, who is a championship flower grower, as the “mother-in-law from hell.”
A few months later, the couple went ahead and tied the knot without the
upper-crustCarolyn Bourne, who had castigated their big day as "brash,
celebrity-style behavior". Bride Heidi Withers wore a bizarre veiled parasol
which completely covered her head, leaving her unable to see and dependent on
groom Freddie Bourne to steer her around.(Source)

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The Mother-in-Law Who Tried to Breastfeed
Her Grandson

Imagine giving your baby to your mother-in-law to hold only to find
out moments later that she's trying to breastfeed your baby! That's
what happened to a new mom who has a bad relationship with her in-law.
According to the shocked mother, the granny had one boob out and was
attempting to nurse her grandson. She chuckled and said, "Oh that
one's not working. Let's try this one!" before switching the infant to
he other breast, where he suckled her nipple.
When friends told the grandfather (husband to the nursing grandma)
about his wife's actions, he shrugged it off at first. But then he confronted
his wife, saying, "Honey, did you really try to breastfeed the Bambino?"
Abashedly she replied, "I'm not going to talk about it anymore!
All I will say is that it was a good bonding experience
for both of us!"(Source | Via | Photo)

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The Mother-in-Law Who Accompanied the
Newlyweds on Their Honeymoon

It's normal for couples to have in-law issues, but they generally don't
begin on the honeymoon. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case for an
Italian woman named Marianna, whose mother-in-law showed up on their
post-nuptial trip to France. The couple, from Rome, got married in a church
ceremony after a 12-month romance. Apparently, the bride didn't know that
her new mother-in-law planned to come along; she simply appeared at
the Rome airport, queued for security, and boarded the flight with the unhappy
couple.
The infuriated newlywed asked her husband to send his mom home, but
the mama's boy refused, citing health reasons. The 36-year-old woman
spent three weeks in France and then requested a divorce because her
husband maintained an "excessive emotional attachment" to his mother.
Marianna has since left the marital home for Naples.(Source)

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The Mother-in-Law Who Hoisted Her
Daughter's Husband's Car Onto a Roof
Terrace in a Feud Over Unpaid Debt

A Chinese woman had enough of her son-in-law's constant excuses
for not paying back his loan, so she went to extreme measures to force his
hand. Wang Qin hired a crane to lift her son-in-law's car onto her house
terrace to ensure that he returned the money he had borrowed from her.
Mrs. Wang, from Lishui, Zhejiang Province, had been keeping the car as
collateral, but turned up the heat when she got tired of waiting.
According to Mrs. Wang, she had lent her son-in-law nearly half-a-million
yuan so he could invest in his business.
She began by holding his car hostage, but after she found out that he had
secretly been trying to retrieve it from outside her home, she lost her patience.
Mrs. Wang rented a crane and hoisted the Audi onto her terrace, out of reach
of her son-in-law.
Mothers-in-law can be really mean sometimes, but I must say that I agree
with this one.(Source 1 | Source 2)

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The Mother-in-Law Who Married
Her Son-in-Law

(Dramatization) 

Some men do like their mothers-in-law, but this fellow sure takes the
cake. In an unprecedented move, a man and his mother-in-law defied all
social norms and got married two years after the death of the late wife.

Judah Magarasadza's wife Rozie Gopoza died in 2008, and two months
later his mother-in-law, Felistus Gopoza, moved in with him. It is reported
that the two then began a romantic relationship which culminated in them
tying the knot in 2010. The wedding reception is understood to have been low
key. This was a result of the two families' refusal to bless the marriage.
After the man died, things took a downward trend for the mother-in-law
turned wife.Sources said that the woman was barred from the funeral by her
husband's relatives, who vehemently told her that they did not
recognize her relationship with their son.(Source)

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The Mother-in-Law Who was Ordered
to Pay $65,000 for Bullying Her Daughter-in-Law

In 2006, Nottingham County Court ordered Dalbir Kaur Bhakar to pay
35,000 pounds (US$65,000, euro51,000) to her daughter-in-law,
Gina Satvir Singh. Singh, 26, claimed that she suffered months of
abuse following her arranged marriage to Bhakar's son, Hardeep Bhakar,
in November 2002.
Singh claimed that her mother-in-law, who lived with the couple in Ilford,
east London, kept her as a virtual prisoner and forced her to rise at 6:30 a.m.
to perform "excessive and unnecessary" household chores, including cleaning
the toilet without a brush.
She claimed that she was prevented from attending a Sikh temple, had
visits to her family restricted, and her telephone calls monitored. Singh said
that Bhakar forced her to cut her hair — despite religious objections — and
would not let her register with a doctor after she developed a hand infection.
Singh and her husband divorced in 2003. She sued under the
Protection from Harassment Act, which was introduced in 1997 to
deter stalkers. It is believed to be the first time that the act has been
used in such a way. (Source)

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The Mother-in-Law Who Called Half of
the Wedding Guests and Falsely Informed
Them that the Wedding was Off

A man won a radio contest looking for the worst mother-in-law after
describing his ordeal during their wedding. According to the unlucky man,
his mother-in-law disapproved of the wedding so much that the day before
the wedding she called everyone on the bride's side
(without the bride knowing) and said that the wedding was off. She explained
that they had broken up and that the groom was going to jail. So, when
the wedding day came, only half of the people showed (obviously). Then,
the mother of the bride told her daughter that it's probably because no
 one approves of the wedding! How sweet of her. (Source)