Anyone's mil, look at them like they're a different species...?lighthearted

[Whatthefunk]

My mil is lovely. Very kind and sweet, but she's also the sort of woman, who irons her sheets and has a special drawer for holiday toiletries. I sometimes find her looking at me as though I'm a complete mystery to her.... We have a giggle together, but she can't understand a woman, who doesn't always carry a pac-a-mac, and, or umbrella, and God forbid, a woman should be tipsy....I still remember the shock on her face, one Christmas, when I advised her that one bottle of wine would not see me through the whole festive period.....anyone else from a different planet, to their mil?

On the whole, I think that I struck the jackpot, with my Mil. Especially when I read some of the horror stories on here

Similar here, she panics after feeling a single a white wine spritzer that she may get tipsy, whereas my I somehow always feel the need to triple my booze consumption when in her presence

Mine is no longer with us, and she was lovely, but she & I might as well have come from different planets as we weren't on the same wavelength at all.

I'm a different nationality, the 'wrong' religion (ie not Catholic), lived with her precious son before marrying him, breastfed my children much to her horror, had completely different ideas about raising children, didn't have dinner on the table at 6pm every evening... I could go on.

Despite all our differences we were very fond of each other & I miss her.

Mine is stunned that I haven't devoted myself to being DHs, the childrens and BILs full time maid (BIL lives with us, don't get me started...). She thinks that I should cook, clean and tidy up after everyone with no fuss because the men work hard at work and they're under pressure I'm lazy and disgusting for not ironing anything, and she also thinks I should lose weight.

I think she's secretly horrified that DH will quite happily push the hoover round and pick up a duster or cook a meal!