Hopefully a slightly different slant on the usual MIL threads. If you are a MIL, how well do you know your "opposite number" and do you like them/ get on well with them? I only met my DDs MIL the night before the wedding and we have seen her maybe twice in the 3 years since then. She is very lovely although we do have a bit of a language barrier if it is just the two of us. My DD gets on fine with her (shock horror) and there have been no instances of either of us having screaming tantrums to get our own way, demanding keys to the house or trying to "out-grandma" each other. My mum/MIL were never particularly close although they spent a fair amount of time together at family events etc and there was one memorable evening when we left the two of them together to go out for a meal and came back to find two quite tiddly elderly ladies dancing round the living room to very loud music 