I loved both my MILs. I wish they’d met my DC.

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Just saying. Not an AIBU.
MIL 1 I was very close to. She did seem a bit unhinged in our early years but I understand now that she just loved her son so much and probably found it hard to “relinquish” him to me. I totally get that now.
Her son left me and she was a great support to me. She died a while ago and I was heartbroken, I went to her funeral and it was actually nice to see exDH, I made my peace with him long ago. No DC.
MIL2 was lovely though I wasn’t with her son when she died so she never saw her grandchildren. That saddens me.
I have two 2 DS and I hope that I will be a good MIL one day. Hard to know what makes a good MIL though, from all the threads on here.

It's sad that MN has become known for its MIL bashing. It's obvious from posts like yours that they're not all horrible. Obviously some are hideous just as some DILs will be but we don't get to hear about them because of the demographics on here.

I wonder if Gransnet is full of posts about how awful the DILs are

My MIL was not many peoples cup of tea. We got on well. She died in January. I miss her a lot and she was a wonderful gangan to our sons.

I wish I had a m I l and that she got to see the 6 children I have with her son. And that she could see my eldest get his degree at university and climb his way up the ladder successfully in the job he got. And all the others getting their trophies and passing their s a t s. And my d s 7 in his shows ( he is a total showman!) but she died when my husband was 18 and I never got to meet her. People do say my daughter looks the double of her I think she would love them I really do. I do think, too much m I l bashing on here it's very shocking as I have 5 sons and ask myself is that what's in store for me?

My MIL is alive and lovely, but I have such heartache about DH's ExW not being able to see DSS grow up/meet partners/grandchildren/etc. She was an amazing, superior woman and mother and it is really shit that she's gone. I'm missing her a lot today, sorry for steering away from MILs, she's just on my mind.

I miss my MIL so much. I could really have done with her sage advice and support over the years. I am so sad that my children never got to meet her as she was a fantastic grandmother to her older grandchildren and a wonderful MIL to me and her other daughters in law. She cheered me up when I was unemployed, took me out for lunch when we were struggling financially, altered my suits to help me look smarter at interviews and shared advice and laughs, without trying to take the place of my mum. I miss her so much and wish I'd appreciated her more when she was here. She died unexpectedly, far too young.