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To ask if any one likes and gets along with there mil

135 replies

AuntiePickleBottom · 29/08/2011 22:34

i see alot of threads about MIL alot about problems and the poster dislike of the MIL I have no problem with these thread btw

Am I the Only one that likes and gets along with my MIL

OP posts:
issey6cats · 29/08/2011 22:36

i get on with my MIL shes a sweet lady

bibbitybobbityhat · 29/08/2011 22:36

Yabu

mckenzie · 29/08/2011 22:36

I like, love and get along with my MIL but it hasn't always been that way Smile

CRIKRI · 29/08/2011 22:37

My MiL is absolutely wonderful. FiL is fantastic, too. I think both had given up on their youngest DS ever getting married! :)

Now, with my previous MiL, it was quite another story . . .

Ineedacleaneriamalazyslattern · 29/08/2011 22:37

For reasons far too long to go into here I am neither one way or another about MIL. We get on fine can be in each others company have a laugh together but I genuinely neither like nor dislike her there is a lot of water under that bridge.
On the other hand I get on absolutely brilliantly with my ex mil. We are great friends really love each other and are really close. We have had ups and downs in the past as many families do but I absolutely adore her and her me and my current DH.

DeccaTreuhaft · 29/08/2011 22:37

I adore my MIL - she is wonderful. My own mother on the other hand...

MrsPresley · 29/08/2011 22:38

I get on great with my in laws, they are really wonderful people who love their GD very much and never interfere but do give good advice when they think it's needed.

Mind you it probably helps that they live in Cyprus most of the year so we only see them 2 or 3 times a year Grin

SinicalSal · 29/08/2011 22:38

I do like mine, in small doses, but i'm antisocial so small doses are all I can take of anyone.

greengirl87 · 29/08/2011 22:38

i get along with my partners mum shes a bit ditzy but is very kind and amusing i do moan about her somedays but shes a good'un! Now FIL's are a whole other story!

GreenEyesandNiceHam · 29/08/2011 22:38

I LOVE my MIL.

I also loved my Ex MIL. I feel blessed to have had both of those women in my life.

TheEarlOfDoncaster1963 · 29/08/2011 22:38

I like my MIL, she makes me laugh and only occasionally annoys me (but i don't see her often enough for it to affect my life).

Dialsmavis · 29/08/2011 22:38

Love my MIL to bits, I am smiling just thinking about her! Smile

junsab · 29/08/2011 22:39

Yep. I like and get along with my MIL. She is very nice. Sometimes too nice, though I'm definitely not complaining after reading some of the stories on here!

greatescape · 29/08/2011 22:39

I like my mil and we get on well.

Limara · 29/08/2011 22:39

Yep, I get on with mine and I even work with her. She annoys me as much as everyone else does so no difference. We are always taking the piss out of each other, nice I'm lucky.

LoopyLoopsPussInBoots · 29/08/2011 22:39

Me. We're going on holiday with them soon, MIL and PIL, though very different from us, are absolutely lovely and the kindest people you'll ever meet

ElfOnTheTopShelf · 29/08/2011 22:40

DH has a mum and a step mum, and I get on with them both, as well as his dad and step dad :)

Buzzybritches · 29/08/2011 22:40

MIL is fab, she lives 250 miles away so visits are extended, but she mucks in, annoys me with the amount she spoils our daughter, but she's ace and i love her. When my OH phoned her earlier in the year to tell her we were getting married she insisted on speaking to me...she said 'Are you fucking mad?'
That is all !

BecauseImWorthIt · 29/08/2011 22:41

My MIL is a lovely woman, and we get on very well. I am very lucky I realise, having read some awful threads on here.

Alibabaandthe80nappies · 29/08/2011 22:41

I love mine and we get on well.

Yes she is annoying occasionally, but aren't we all! Grin

gomez · 29/08/2011 22:43

Both sets of parents are marvellous. Always ready to help, non-judgemental and never interfere. In-laws in particular are very generous with time (and on occasion in the past some hard cash) and this has allowed DH and I to make choices that would otherwise not have been possible with 3 children. They are fab.

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2shoes · 29/08/2011 22:44

I do
my MIL is lovely

StillSquiffy · 29/08/2011 22:44

My ex SIL still goes round to have coffee with my mum, 10 years after she and DB got divorced...

Triggles · 29/08/2011 22:44

I get along with my MIL. Absolutely love her. She is a wonderful woman, always supportive (even when DH is driving me nuts LOL), never judgemental, wonderful with the children, always willing to chat, has always been willing to help out with the children for any reason (although as she is elderly and our two are a handful, we don't do this very often), is happy to show me any cooking stuff without laughing or criticising if I'm bad at it Grin, and is happy just to sit with a cup of tea and chat with me whenever I need to chat.. about anything.

I couldn't ask for a better MIL. I'm so glad we moved to be closer to her a few years ago, when FIL was poorly (he passed away almost a year later), as it's been lovely living close enough to pop over whenever we'd like.

I try to be the same with DIL, as I am a MIL myself. It's a bit more difficult, as they live further away, and she and DS1 have a bit of a up/down relationship sometimes (but I freely admit that it's usually DS1's fault if things are down Hmm), so I try to keep out of it in that respect while still being supportive to her. I am careful not to overstep boundaries as much as possible - I sometimes worry that by asking questions about how they (DS1, DIL & DGS) are doing that they might think I'm prying, but just chatting, IYSWIM. It's tricky to navigate sometimes.