Say to her, "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."
Then give her the phone number of the Holiday Inn.
Well, you could write to "Dear Abby."
Do you own a gun?
This is a tough situation you're in ....
Do what your unwanted guest did. Leave the house and don't come back until your guest is gone....
Politely excuse yourself, go into the kitchen, call the mother-in-law and invite her over for cocktails. Might be good for a few laughs.
How good a friend is she???????
Tell her to grow up, and send her home. Unless, of course, her MIL is an axe murderess, then call the police.
Well......if she is a "friend" why not let her stay there a couple days. I would. She might have the mother-in-law from hell.
Tell friends husband name of good divorce lawyer, that is where this is headed.
As a rule, I dislike giving people advice. It's best that they should decide for themselves. Sometimes you can talk things over, but finally people need to make up their own minds.
It's not your job to straighten out your friend's marriage either. So you might talk it over with her, but she has to work this out for herself, just as you do.
If she's a good friend and you don't want to lose her, you might put up with it for a reasonable time. When are her inlaws leaving? New Year's?
What are you going to do, make columns on a blank piece of paper for "Kick her out" and "Give her the guest room", add up the total votes for each, and then decide?
OK, then, put me down for "Give her the guest room."
Say to her, "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."
Then give her the phone number of the Holiday Inn.
Tell her to grow up and stop being a manipulative drama queen.
Are we talking about a couple hours here or two weeks?
actually this is a common thing in my wife's family... They just don't like each other.
Do what I do....walk around in the nude. that scares off all unwanted guests.
Years ago, I had a similar situation. A female cousin by marriage of my husband came over and brought her twin babies to get away from her immature husband. He wasn't hitting her or at least she didn't say so; she was just fed up with him. So, they stayed a few days with us and it was okay. Finally she got ready to go back home. So, we took her home. About the time we got back to the house, she called again, "Uh, Chad's brother and his wife are coming over here to visit and Chad says I have to get the babies out of here because he will not allow either of them to touch the babies." So, I told her that it sounded like she was married to a real immature boy, I had just barely gotten back home and there was not a thing I could do about it. . it was HIS responsibility to FIX THINGS if he had the problem of not wanting them to touch the babies (like telling them not to come over for starters if he felt like that)." So, I suppose that may have been the start of her beginning to grow up and him, too, and realize the world didn't revolve around them! I never heard from them again, so I assume they don't like me any more. They did divorce, not a surprise.
Send her over to visit MY mother-in-law.
After that, hers will seem not so bad after all.
You need to make friends with some grown-ups instead of petulant little princesses lacking either the guts to assert herself, even though what she wants is radically narcissistic, or the class to tolerate inconvenience without making it into a trauma drama. (wow, that really is one sentence, isn't it?)