Contrary to usual - stories of people loving their in-laws?

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Okay so DP is DP not DH but my sort of in-laws are just lovely. I'm from a small family, my DM died when I was young and DP's mother has 4 DSs and has been so incredibly wonderful to me that they feel like an extention of family already. One of DP's brothers is staying with us in London for a few days while DP is working away and I've just spent the past few hours guzzling kettlechips wine and guacamole laughing and chatting with him like one of my closest friends. Just feel really lucky. Does anyone else feel like this, sort of like one of the 'nice relationship' threads to balance out all the sad stories of in-laws?

I also have wonderful ILs. I'm lucky enough to have a fab Mum and siblings (less said about my Dad the better....) but my ILs are totally different from my family and give me different things. MiL has had to deal with some really tough stuff in her life but is such an inspiration with her positivity and has been my best, closest and most trustest support in learning how to be a mother, particularly with babies. FiL is the most genuinely good person I have ever met. He's so many other things that are fantastic, but that's what's most important to me. They are such an inspiration to DH and I too as to what a good marriage is. I am very lucky.

35 mins and only one contributor. Awwww. There must be others surely......aren't there?

Mine are lovely too. Infact I was good friends with mil before I was even with dh

I have the loveliest MIL and (step) FIL: live round the corner but never too much in our faces as it were. Just kind and heful and non-judgemental about my messy house. Good company too - have them over for dinner just to have a good chat and catch up. They are well-travelled and have had ups and downs in their own lives and so never judge others, just empathise and offer wise advice (if asked). So lovely to have people in my life who are just really civilised and decent and sensible.

I love my IL's

They are the proper family I should have had

My mother-in-law and sister-in-law are fantastic. FIL was also lovely but died a few years ago, sadly. My own family are at best a dead loss and it's through being with DH's family that I finally realised what families are supposed to be like to one another. My in-laws have supported me through so much and are so kind and caring without being interfering. Once MIL realised what a rough time I had had with my own family she mothered me in such a lovely way, without ever overstepping boundaries. I think the world of her.

celtic, same here

I love my ILs (though not official yet, still to marry DP lol). Unfortuntely, MIL has been suffering from brain damage since last summer, and I feel it's brought us all a lot closer. She has come a long way since then when we were told that she may not even make it through the first week, but now FIL is waiting for a disabled access home to become available so when she is ready, she can go home. But I love DP's family, they always made me feel a part of the family, even DP's grandparents and aunts and uncles etc.

I have always had a wonderful relationship with my former MIL even though I divorced her son many years ago!

I am regarded as her fourth child and my children are considered her grandchildren.

She is a wonderful lady and so was ex FIL when he was alive.

I love my MIL and to a certain extent my FIL too though he is a difficult to love person - had a stroke years ago which made a cynical and sardonic personality even more so.

MIL has looked after me post-seizure, after having my wisdom teeth taken out I recuperated at PILs house and I was waited on hand and foot with specially made foods to tempt me to eat (they dislocated my jaw and I had a bit of a reaction to the GA), she (and my mum) looked after the DDs when I was in hospital so DH could go to work and brought DD3 in to the hospital for feeds, she made my wedding cake, she made me maternity clothes and breastfeeding dresses (even hand hemming one maternity evening dress so it looked right ), she even trusts me to make gravy just the way DH likes when I'm at her house - it's my 'job' when we are getting dinner ready . She even makes trifle with the cream separate so I can eat it as I hate cream (haven't the heart to tell her I don't like trifle really!). I love her!

Even better she adores all the DDs and yet doesn't let them get a way with blue murder like my mum does. Nor does she countermand our parenting or make comments about how we bring the children up.

I loved DH's Grandad too and cried buckets at his funeral.

BIL is an acquired taste like FIL but he's great once you don't put up with sarcastic comments and give as good as you get.

All in all I think I got really lucky. DH on the other hand got my mum who is a bit nutty (she thinks her cat could talk and other more bizarre things).....Poor bastard.

My IL's are fab. Am in awe of them- in fact, they are what I aspire to be like when I'm older!

My MIL sends home dinners for my freezer at least once a week, just because she hates cooking for 2 so does loads.

I live 12000 miles away from my parents and my PIL are brilliant. MIL is almost more of a mum to me than my real mum. They are fab grandparents and I love them to bits.

Mine have just travelled 250 miles to look after my 3 children so my husband and I could have a five-day holiday in New York. I adore them. (My parents live 2 miles away and don't even have them for an occasional sleepover...)

MIL sent me a bottle of Pinot grigio home with dh last time he went over there - she's a keeper! And every few months she will take dh for a mammoth sainsbo's shop. Sadly never met FIL.

My (sort-of) PIL aren't the greatest, sadly, but here's something to warm the cockles of your withered hearts: it's my Mum's birthday today and my Gran - her MIL - told her 'I couldn't love you more if I'd given birth to you myself. Thank you for making my life so wonderful and doing so much for me'. Then they had a tearful cuddle. Both my parents got on brilliantly with their respective PIL and all my grandparents were the best of friends too. Gran is 91 and is able to live in her own home with the help of my parents, who live over 30 mins away and are OAPs themselves. She says the other women at her Darby & Joan club are sick to the teeth of hearing about her perfect DIL!

DP openly admits that he's had the better end of the deal, in-laws wise. He adores my parents and they do him. I'd love to have a really close relationship with his parents but they keep everyone at arms length, including their own children. My parents are the opposite (too soppy, if anything), and DP loves it. Younger BIL is wonderful and I would be his close friend even if he wasn't DP's brother.

I love my DPs mum. She is lovely and she comes round on a Monday and looks after DD (13 months) so that I can go to sleep after working nights all weekend. She is great.

I'm quite fond of mine.

mine are lovely too :):)

My PIL's are pretty cool.

FIL likes to make us stuff...garden bench, egg rack, building bricks/wooden train sets for the DC's etc and MIL keeps picking me up 'bargains'...bits of material for cushion covers and wool at cheapo prices.

I like that they think about us even when we aren't there.

My MIL is absolutely lovely. She is the best!

When FIL died 2 years ago, it was actually one of the worst days of my life.

And the rest of the family is lovely too - happy days!

My IL's are fab, treated me as one of their own from day one and never even flinched when we announced our engagement 3 weeks after we met! MIL always has time for me, will ask before she gives anything to DC's and is generally just lovely. I don't see much of FIL, as he's a bit anti-social, but he's always been nothing but nice to me

My DH's IL's however, are horrid and sometimes out and out rude :(

My MIL is a bit of a pain in the backside, but she's a very good mother, I can talk to her, and she'll be a really good grandmother too. My FIL is just hilarious, and also very, very nice. My BIL and his wife - especially his wife - are excellent. I did well marrying into them.