My husband's mom got out of prison 6 months ago. She did 16 years in prison for 5 counts of child abuse charges when my husband was a kid. My husband is probably the sweetest human alive and tries to see the best in people. Even people who hurt him. He never held any grudges towards his mom. In fact he was convinced he was to blame for a long time. So when she got out of prison he had already forgiven her and was fine welcoming her back into his life. She doesn't really like me though. Since she's been out she's been asking my husband for favors and needing rides to places and sometimes he can help her but a lot of the time he can't. I can't legally drive because I have seizures so he has to drive me around. She has made it clear she doesn't like me and I've heard her talking about me and how I'm useless to people and not a good wife because I'm home all day and she's seen our house and it's messy. I'm home all day because I work from home! I work 60 hours a week sometimes.

So the situation that has got her all pissed at me is over a damn apple pie. My husband has said his childhood wasn't all bad. His mom would bake for him and she made really good apple pie and he hasn't found someone who could replicate it. Some of his foster parents tried but couldn't. So I tried to do that for him. It took several tries. My dad owned a bakery so I learned how to cook and I was trying to go off if how he described the pie. In the end I couldn't replicate the EXACT pie but he ended up liking the recipe I was able to come up with MORE than his mom's pie. So I make it for his birthday every year. He just turned 26 so I made him a pie for his birthday. His mom stopped by and she started talking about how my pie taste nothing like the ones she makes and no woman can ever compare to a mother's cooking. Then my husband told her how I tried to replicate the pie for him and ended up making one he likes more. He wasn't saying it to be mean. My husband just says things sometimes and sometimes hurts feelings when he isn't trying to. He's a little overly honest. Anyway it upset his mom and his mom has accused me of trying to compete with her which I'm not. We had an argument because she says she had 16 years stolen from her with her kid and I'm trying to steal the rest of her time which I'm not. She said I made the apple pie to show her up. She didn't even bring anything to his birthday. If she told me she wanted to make it I would have said ok. I've been trying with her but she's acting like I'm trying to compete with her which I'm not!