Positive MIL stories

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Last night I went out with my mil, dh, and Dt. My mil had a great time, is lovely company and always backs me up. So if St are being rude or lippy she tells them to listen to me. She's happy in the back of the car and going with the flow. And she makes me a proper Christmas cake with marzipan and icing and decorations each year for my birthday as I love it so much. I'm so grateful for my mil.

I'm jealous @Namechangedtoprotect.
I don't have a mum and my family are overseas.
I would have loved my MIL to be like yours but sadly after years of taking the higher ground I can't put myself through it anymore.
Lucky you, I hope you tell her how lovely she is.

Love my MIL genuinely lovely lady! I am lucky!

I don’t like mine particularly.. She’s OK. But she and dp and the children all love each other very much, and she’s a fab mum and grandma. Which is the important thing. It’s not all about me!

Mine is great. She treats me like her own daughter. She's always caring and helpful. She's amazing with the kids and loves them so much. She respects my boundaries and the way I choose to raise my children (despite the fact she comes from a different culture). We're very lucky to have her.

When my mum died, my MIL comforted me over the phone for nearly an hour as I needed a 'mothers' voice to speak to.

She and FIL also drive me and DH down to the funeral and stayed a few days to help as I was 39 weeks pregnant by that point and couldn't drive.

She is a very caring woman and loves her whole family to bits.

I adore mine. She's never been anything except welcoming and loving from the day I met her.
The day one of her friends suggested that my children weren't really her grandchildren (she has no blood relationship) or that my daughters weren't really my daughters because they are adopted - she was so angry she turned purple but she's classy so she stood up, told her friend that that was a disgusting and disgraceful thing to say, and how dare she before walking out.
She was so furious but forgave said friend graciously when she issued a grovelling apology for her ignorance and stupidity.
She adores my children, (the feeling is mutual) supports me and only cares that we are happy.
I want to be her when I grow up

I love my MIL. She does so much for us. We don’t ask but she recognised when we could do with some help. She adores my children and would do anything for all of us. My FIL is the same. I am fully aware of how lucky we are though.

My exMIL was not nasty, but just not very nice to me. But my dd step-mum feels the same way, so it wasn't just me! Her, mum, however, is lovely and treats my dd as if she was her own grandchild. She even offered to let me stay at hers as she lives abroad when my dd was stuck there with the chicken pox.

I know it's slightly different from a mil- but I'm glad she's step-nanny to dd.

Not quite my MIL yet (engaged but not married, won’t be for a few years yet) but she’s bloody amazing. I love her SO much.

DP is disabled. She’s brilliant with him. Has flown back from her home country (Italy) a few times with almost no notice when his condition has worsened. Has been pivotal in helping him deal with the fact that he may never work again and the MH issues that have arisen due to that. Has supported me supporting him.

Loves my children like her own.

Is an active feminist.

Also my ExMIL. She’s a fantastic Grandma. She knows I miss her cooking so occasionally sends me extra that she’s cooked specially for me Was a massive help when I moved areas; looked after DC for a week so I could set up the new house. Is always on call if I need emergency childcare.

My MIL was a wonderful woman - kind, welcoming and such a good mother to my husband. She died before I properly knew her and before we could give her any grandchildren, who I'm sure she would have been an incredible grandma to. I miss her and the relationship we could have had, how life should have been.

I love my PIL. I think they are genuinely funny, lovely, generous people and I really enjoy their company. They're so relaxed and conscious of not interfering but adore our son too.

They have done more for us than we could ever repay but never mention it. We are very, very lucky.