to have a really sweet kind MIL. Seems rare on here.

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She is just lovely. I don't understand why everyone has such awful MIL's. We will most probably all be MIL one day, if not already, I would hate for any prospective son/daughters in laws to hate me.

My MIL is lovely. she's bailed us out of tight spots on more than one occassion. She buys the DC lovely xmas and birthday presents and even though she is older now and struggles with her health she still takes an interest in them and will step up to look after them to give us some peace when she is well enough.

She's never put me down in front of the DC or rubbished my parenting skills (although I know there are things she disagrees with, she is discrete about it) and she is willing to side with me and tell DH when she thinks he is being a tosser.

You're really lucky, OP.

I love my MIl because DH and I have been together for donkeys years and she really is family to me....but she is a self-pitying, self indulgent, maudlin, critical, miserable hag most of the time.

Yep, mine is great - she's already sent me a text thanking me for yesterday's dinner and saying how great it was.

My MIL is fantastic.

I very much doubt I will ever be a MIL though.

My MIL is a wonderful woman. I'm glad to have her in my life.

Compared to the MILs on here I'm extremely grateful for mine!

Often it's just a personality clash, which is bound to happen fairly often when you throw two people together and they are expected to get on and spend time together. A lot of people dislike their FILs too, (my own in a grumpy racist bastard) but as he is less sociable than MIL I don't have to deal with him much so it's easier in some ways. My MIL is lovely but we are very different people and so struggle to maintain a proper friendship which is a shame really. That's not the fault of either of us, we're just a bit too different.

My Mil was absolutely wonderful. She is no longer with us. I miss her every day. She was exactly like a second mother to me.

It makes me so sad when people have problems with their in-laws. I'd give almost anything to have them back again.

to fab Mils!

My MIL is spent the last 3 days looking after my bed-ridden family - three kids and one adult all with high temperatures, no appetite and fearsome coughs. She single handedly saved christmas for us. For which we are very grateful.

Mil and FIL stars, but sister's mil that is another story .....
And my mum varies between delightful and vile in a sentence for no reason known to man

My MIL is adorable, and just an all round star.

Other family members, not so much...

Yes, my MIL is no longer with us and I so wish she was. She has missed so much of the DC. I would love her to be here after arriving late, sitting at the table at Christmas being fussy and salting the food before she tasted it. . I will take some flowers to her grave after Christmas and tell her all about it.

MIL stories on here are always my favourite, I honestly can't believe women like that actually exist. I mean have they alway been like that or is it onset with age? I luckily have a wonderful MIL, i love her to bits. (I hope my OH thinks the same about my bat shit crazy mother!! )

Lucky you OP. I would love to have a nice MIL, but I don't. It took me years to come to terms with the fact that no matter how nice, thoughtful or accomodating I am to her she is an absolute cow to me. It has been a very hurtful experience, but it has made me determined to be the best MIL in the world when my dc have partners!

I don't have a MIL but I have a feeling she'd have been hard work. My SILs are lovely though. Apparently my own mother is a lovely MIL - never intereferes or undermines, but likes to spoil her GC.
I am lucky.

On the flipside I think DP and I are going to be terribly interfering old witches.

My MIL is lovely she treats me like her own daughter, we do have out moments, but normally is just a age thing.

My MIL is pretty dire. She NEVER phones us - we always phone her - or shows any interest in our lives. When we see her, all she talks about is the 'bad' things that have happened to other family members: there are never any enquiries about our 2 dds and how they're doing. It's just a complete monologue of misery and woe which drives my dh and I MAD!! I'm reaching the point of not wanting to see her anymore because we come away feeling utterly dejected

I love mine.

She is a very strong woman, she faced war, she moved abroad, she worked very hard, she always helps others, she volunteers a lot, she s got sense of humour, she cooks fab dishes, and she knows how to party (she sings at parties and she did so at our wedding).

My issues are with BIL but that's another thread.

It's not that I don't like mine, just that we have v different lives and nothing to say to each other beyond inane chatter so time spent together is very boring. But she's a kind person.

Even rarer, I think, I have a lovely ex MIL! Split up with her son years ago but she is fab, an "extra" Grandma for my daughter from new relationship.