This mother-in-law doesn’t understand the meaning of boundaries, crashing her son’s romantic getaway and effectively ruining her daughter-in-law’s hard-won, child-free romantic cruise.

Creating boundaries with your parents is a great first step into adulthood. As you put some distance between yourself and the person who changed your diapers when you were a baby, you can break free of familial predecessors and become your own individual adult. However, escaping family is not so easy for some, and for the woman in our next story, it proved to be impossible to shake her mother-in-law—even at the ticketed gates of a romantic cruise liner. 

After spending months planning her anniversary vacation, where she and her hubby could finally enjoy a few moments alone together, this woman was shocked to find out that she’d be spending the week with her husband’s parents. And we all know there’s nothing more romantic than splitting fishbowl cocktails with the in-laws…