to deduce from my reading of MN that SILs are generally more barking than MILs?

[Katisha]

SILs and MILs.
The SILs seem to be harder to cope with than the MILs I'd say. Am I right?

1 of mine is definitely barking. I would wager a MH professional would agree with me on it, actually

My SIL is certainly more barking but easier to deal with at the moment because she is not speaking to me because dc2 was a dd.

Hmmm. SILs younger so can be a less mature version of the MIL, but then a MIL can be more set in her barking ways.

My barking SIL is not related to MIL

MIL is lovely (a bit barking but in a nice way)

I have an 'interesting' SIL - but then again I am her SIL so maybe we cancel each other out. Well, unless she holds the same opinion of me.

On the other hand, my MIL (who I see far more frequently) is lovely, but she is biologically related to DH, whereas SIL is not.

MIL is luvverly. DH's 3 sisters also gorgeous people.

DB's wife manages to rebalance the scales by being a complete gorgon.

It seems compulsory to have at least one difficult and competitive SIL...

My ex-SIL is evil as well as barking! One of the nastiest women I have ever met.
MIL was lovely.

Mine is a numpty, competitive but with a victim complex ,which is not a good combo let me tell you.

My SILs are all lovely - I have 6 of them. One of my 2 MILs is completely barking.

My SIL is fine now but I remember one time I stopped round DH house (before we were married) and she insisted on sleeping in her car.

Mine are wonderful although a bit barking, some of them. I only see them twice a year but by the end of 2 weeks with them I can start to feel a bit stabby. They are a different culture and can come out with some strange things, but generally they are great.

My DBro's DP is just brilliant as well.

MIL - love her to bits , shes amazing...have told dh if we ever split im keeping the Pils!
CURRENT SIL - guenuinely lovely person...she`s a very good friend.
EX-SIL ..evil personified ! ...She got jelouse when DTs were born , banned bro from comming to visit them, banned his 2 kids by ex-w from her house , was jailed for assaulting me in a card shop...(she was pg at the time so i didnt hit back btw)
Caused major family fall out , that didnt get sorted for 2 years ...attacked bro in street outside pils house because he hadnt done the ironing....leaving her NB in pram whilst she ran across the cul-de-sac ,to do so.
And then ranted and raved about her dad being a "bastard" because he left her son £500,000 when he passed away from cancer...why ? she inherited only £25,000.

TBH I dont think my ex-sil is very well.
Hope she gets help.

My SILs are lovely people..

MY MIL is a good person but can wind me up like nobody else I know.. but when we're at opposite ends of the country I even like here!

My MIL is bonkers-barmy-mad, but means well. SIL is fine. I must be really lucky.

My MIL is a bit old-fashioned but has been lovely and supportive since DD was born.

My SIL (bro's wife) is utterly barking and not in a good way. She sounds similar to susie100's SIL. I sympathise greatly, susie!

MIL - absolutely barking.
Step-MIL - same.

2 SILS - lovely. Very lucky to have them, never had a real sister so is just brilliant.

Other SIL - nowt in common, can be awkward sometimes. She is with the weird BIL and we don't see much of them.

I would agree, as my SIL (DH's sister) is a nightmare and my MIL usually lovely.

However, I think that part of the reason SIL is so awful (spoilt, princess complex kind of thng) is becuase of the way MIL indulges her and lets her get away with it...

MIL was fine.

SIL is barking.

they are not related.

Most of us are SIL's are we not? I have tried to consider if my SIL could consider me barking, but I really can't see how she could.

My SIL is as mad as a box of frogs, much easier now she doesn't talk to us.

My SIL is a carbon copy of MIL - they wind each other up no end and cause no end of stress and unpleasantness.. Infact we have just left our house in the area they live in because there was too much ridiculous drama going on and rented a house 100 miles away ...

We are sooo much happier here...

My SIL is a bit bonkers, the house would shock Kim and Aggie, she and her DH are totally passive aggressive and she babies her 2 ( 8 and 12) boys in a very unhealthy way.
We do get on, although she drives DH around the twist.
She keeps asking to go on holiday together - not a chance in hell!

Both my Sil's are great.

DB's wife has been in the family since I was 10. Spoilt me rotten when I was young, was a huge support when I was a teenager, and is a great friend now. Just a shame we live so far apart.

DH's sister is brilliant. She was an instant friend the first time we met. I'm much much closer to her than my own sister.

Mil is a strange woman. One minute we get on fine, the next she's coming out with some bitchy remark. On the whole though she's fine.