MIL acts as if we get on brilliantly and in some ways we do, but she is very old fashioned and right wing and I'm quite the opposite. I've been finding it hard over recent months to keep nodding and listening to tales of events or thoughts that I simply don't agree with. This makes me feel very uncomfortable, like I'm not being true to myself. For example she told a story of a friend of the family who confessed to her that he was gay when he was in his teens and she told him that was fine, but to stop acting camp and stop dressing gay and he'd be welcome in the house. Now I think this is a terrible way to respond, but sat just listening.
I think I can assume that I'm not the only DIL who's in this position and I wonder if I ought to be more honest. Would it be better if I said what I really thought and therefore be myself or is it better for general family relations to keep quite?