MOTHER-IN-LAW . . .

I don't have a mother in law - but when I did- I loved her. She was wild, her name was Margaret and she called herself a prayer warrior- and the first time I ever went to meet her she told me to stand up and pull my skirt tight across my hips so she could see my figure - she said, 'You're a nice size...slightly hippy - but that's good - you'll be able to deliver babies...
Then she showed me her scar from her mastectomy - even though I told her I really didn't want to see it - that I was squeamish - she said, 'Don't be a baby - I had the operation, and you can't even LOOK?!' ...then she made me sleep out on the couch outside her bedroom and she kept the door open all night and I woke up in the pitch dark and she was talking to someone - I couldn't figure out who- and then I heard her put the phone down and pick it back up and realized she was calling people and praying with them at 4:30 in the morning.

She liked me - actually tried to talk me out of marrying her son- she didn't think he was good enough for me.

She was a trip - actually one of my favorite people ever.

So different than my mom (who's also a favorite of mine) - that's probably why my husband loved my mother more than his own...I think he found my mother a little more conventional and to his taste as far as what he thought a mother should be.

I liked both my MILs but if you're asking men, both of mine would say they didn't like mine and she didn't like them. Actually, my mother doesn't approve of any of her SILs unless she needs them for something.

Ten yrs ago she tried to charge me $25 for my husband's Christmas dinner. And this was after I'd bought all the groceries - LOL. She's a little nuts sometimes.

Thanks Kids . . . i had come to think that no one would respond.

Been out all day.

my m-i-l was a great cook . that was all i needed !

in german one says : liebe geht durch den magen !
love goes through the stomach - not really a good translation . ``good cooking keeps love alive`` , might be a better translation.
and mrs h is a GOOD COOK !
hbg

My mil has actually been sober for a while now

and ya know what


i like her.

My mother in law was a horrid cook, and that was just the start. Over a couple of decades we worked into a sort of mutual tolerance. It helped me, in retrospect, that her sons weren't too keen either.
On the other hand, I genuinely enjoyed my father in law, a man of 4th grade education but an excellent story teller, who read a lot of history books.

I just dropped by to find out who Setanta's mother-in-law is.

I've always felt that I'd dodged a bullet when I met my future husband and he told me that his parents had passed away. That was ten big points in his favor.

My mother-in-law makes me anxious. In small doses I like her, but if I have an extended visit with her I almost always have panic attacks afterward. She's the master of making weird little comments that my husband doesn't notice but that shred my self-esteem...She scares me. Plus she's so good at manipulating men that it makes me kind of sick to see her around my husband & my brothers-in-law.

......say, this reminds me-- three cheers for not going home for Christmas!!