In Laws!

[admin]

If you have in laws, how do you get on with them?
Is your MIL a harridan, or like a mother to you? Do you have a good relationship with your SIL or DIL, or is it rather like walking on eggshells??

[Plantaholic]

I didn't get on that well with my MIL, she was always resentful that I married her son. Now for SIL and DIL I am blessed, they are both wonderful, we get on very well.

[Snowdrop]

I wish I had in laws, but I'm too old and so is OH ! They have all departed but from what I hear H's mum was a real star and I would have loved to have met her.

[Daisy]

I think I must be incredibly lucky. My MIL was lovely - and a very wise lady - and my DILs are kind, loving and very good company.

[Gemini]

I don't have MIL or FIL now as both had died long before I met my OH. Her mum sounded a lovely lady!
I got on OK with my ex MIL, but lets say I was glad she lived down south and not too close! She was inclined to interfere over the children which my mother would never do.
I have 3 SILs, I love them all, especially my GDs dad, I love him to bits

[Gemini]

Bumping this up, as it is not showing on the list for some reason we have yet to ascertain!

[Nanto2girls]

My in laws are still with us.Mum is 90 now and Dad is 87.I have always got on very well with them.They only live a couple of streets away,so see them often.2 days a week I do the housework for them.Must admit, sometimes Dad is a pain in the bum.

[Guest]

My FiL died two weeks before our eldest was born, he was a nice chap. MiL lived until she was 94. She had a sharp tongue and was quite judgemental in some ways when I first knew her. However, she was a brilliant grandma and she mellowed a lot as grew older.

Now I'm a MiL myself I try hard to remember the good things she did and copy them, and avoid the things that wound me up!

[Libra Gran]

I had wonderful in laws,sadly gone many years now.But M.I.L was more like a Mother to me and made me feel a real part of the family.She was even known to take my side in an argument.

[Grauntie Mag]

I have been very lucky in the In-Law department too. They were always kind and lovely with the GC's . Also my sisters in law x3 are people I would count as my best friends.

[Shemadee]

My in laws were very old school and extremely prim and proper but didn't interfere too much so I was thankful for that after seeing how much damage my grandmother caused.

[ZIZI]

My husband is the product of much older parents, his mother was in her mid forties when she had him, he attended his sisters wedding as a baby! His dad died when husband was 21 so long gone when I came along. MIL was still alive when we were first together and we seemed to get on well until it was realised I was a fixture, his sister who lived with MIL, decided she couldn't have that and quickly managed to cause a split between husband, MIL and me. It was quite a nasty time for various reasons. Fortunately husband managed to quietly reconcile with her shortly before she died but I never bothered.

My own mother loved My husband. I think she thought of him as my greatest achievement (forget all the other things I have done) and was very creepy to him, dad was just dad. I think I am a good MIL. I don't interfere, babysit when I am asked if I can, make sure that all birthdays and important occasions are remembered. I am very friendly with both of my DILs not so much with my middle sons partner but I suspect that is more to do with him than her.

[Elisi]

Very interesting stories members have to tell. I have an ex husband who is Welsh, and his brother was not a fan of English people! His father was welcoming, but Mam tried to get her son back home to, as she put in a letter to him "marry a nice Welsh girl". :-) in the end it was just accepted I would be part of the family. Well until we divorced anyway. I remained quite good friends with my mother in law until she died at a very great age.