Mother in law,.

So, technically she's not my mother in law. She is just my significant others mother, but for all intents and purposes it's basically the same thing and referring to her as that is just a whole heap easier.

Significant other recently moved back home at (almost) 22 briefly to pay off some debts quicker so he can start saving money to come overseas! He has lived out of home since he was 18.

Mother is a tad nasty. Actually, that's a bit of an understatement. The agreement when he moved home was that he would be paying only $100 a week, whereas when he was renting he was paying $150 a week + bills, food etc etc.... This was all fine and dandy however she has now amped up this rent to $200 per week and he is no longer allowed to use the internet and laundry because that would "cost extra".. Now if she didn't want him there she could have just said so and he would have found somewhere else to live, especially seeing as the entire purpose of him actually being there has just been annihilated.

She has such an issue with control. Perhaps because while his 18 year old brother is perfectly content to act as a young adolescent not a young adult? Significant other however does not feel the need to report his whereabouts, his working hours, where he is PLANNING on eating/sleeping for the next 2 weeks...
She is quite literally treating him like a child, not a teenager, an actual child!

Now, in regard to me, she doesn't treat me that badly... I mean, she is perfectly polite if not a touch over observant of my every move while under her roof! But, generally she is easy for me to get a long with as she does not yell or demean me in any way. She finds it however acceptable to tell significant other that he is going to do nothing with his life (yet is satisfied with his brother being at university regardless of the fact he is studying video game design, now there's nothing wrong with that, in the sense, he can still establish a career out of it, but admit it, it no course in medicine or law, aka something to brag about).

She also made us give away Loui our little ginger cat. He was so adorable and caring, always snuggling me. Almost literally more loving of significant other that his actual mother.

Anyway, I should probably stop ranting and raving....