Anyone on mumsnet actually like their MIL..?

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I do
I have noticed that MIL’s get a bad rep on MN...anyone got any positives about their other half’s mother...?

Yes - she's lovely as is FIL.

My parents are also wonderful.

It's lovely at the kids Birthdays and Christmas when we all get together.

No drama at all - hence why I don't post about it

My MIL is lovely!

Yes my mil is lovely and definitely saner than my own mum. The only thing she pissed me off about was potty training my son. He was 3 1/2 before he potty trained and from about 2 Years she would not stop going on about it. Apart from that she’s a love and I’m blessed to have her.

Love mine and she knows when I find things overwhelming and backs off a bit. She's very supportive.

She's okay as a person - we don't have much in common, but she's fine. But she shows zero interest in my children, so I don't feel under any obligation to have much to do with her.

I love mine, she's bags of fun

I wish I had a MIL. DH's mother died in a car crash when he was 24 so I never met her. By all accounts she really had her act together - first of her family to go to uni and she ended up an economics professor. Was apparently known throughout the uni for going back to work two weeks after having DH with him in a moses basket (it seems he was a very quiet baby).

I'm pretty sure it's thanks to her that DH finds it obvious that a mother's career matters as much as her partner's, and that he sees men taking on (more than) their fair share at home as a matter of course. Now he's a manager at work, he's always the one fighting to give opportunities and promotions to women/mothers who deserve them. So I think she did a great job! Though I hear she could be pretty though with her team and didn't suffer fools gladly...

Due to divorce and blended family I have / had three. 1 I barely know she is perfectly polite and gradually we are learning about each other. So a normal human being. One a complete narc and one delightfully unreliable but perfectly amiable.
All better than my own mother.

Love mine, get on extremely well and happily spend days with her/holiday with PILS.

Love mine. She and I are on the same wavelength, completely. She has a wicked sense of humour and a kind heart. She’s just lovely.

I absolutely love her, she’s become like my friend haha. She was there for me throughout the pregnancy too.
FIL however...now that’s a different story 😂

Nope. She called me common

She now lives a couple of hundred of miles away. My "but it's your and DS's time/road trip/bond" has served me well over the years....

Yep, mine will do anything for us and always happy to look after the kids. I’m very lucky to have her as my MIL

I love my MIL to bits, my SMIL too. They are both incredible ladies and I’m very grateful for both of them

My MIL is lovely, she adores the children and they adore her.

She’s always held the opinion that parenting decisions are up to the parents.

I do. She never interferes or tells us what to do and is very easy to get on with. She does come out with some humdingers but they're never meant in a malicious way.

Not me. I actually have 2 (FIL remarried) and they're both absolute horrors.

I do! She's lovely, always gives me lovely gifts at bday, Christmas & Easter has stopped buying stuff for house, think DH had a word.
Will take ds whenever we ask, happily (we don't take the piss)
Supports me and tells me I'm doing a good job as a mum.
Occasionally she irritates me but so does everyone else I love, occasionally

I like mine but I do think she secretly resents me for taking her baby away. He was still living with her when we met and she expected him to stay with her long term. There was some awkwardness in the early days as his priorities shifted a bit, but we are fine now. I enjoy spending time with her and I do nag H to contact her more as he is a nightmare for that.

My ex MIL was a witch though. Both to me and her other DIL.

I really like mine. I’m an introvert and so is she so it takes a while for us to get proper chatting, but when we do it’s grand. She’s very warm and caring and always support whatever my husband and I are doing. My mum and the rest of my family still live in my home country so I tend to spend most Christmases etc with my mil’s family and she’s always made me feel like part of their family.

Hope my dil likes me ! I think she does!!

Mine is lovely. She helps us in any way she can if we need it, she's kind, she doesn't make demands, and she respects our decisions even if she doesn't agree.

There have been a couple of minor arguments (really only when either/both of us were going through some trying times) over the last 8 years, but we've never fallen out.

She does get on my nerves sometimes, and I'm sure I get on hers, but it's the same with every member of my own family. I do love her though, very much so.

I like mine . She's a bit eccentric and from a different culture to me so sometimes I find her hard to read but she's got a very kind heart.